He was supported by the bulk of Iberian peoples, who were discontent with the heavy taxation imposed upon them by their spend-thrift rulers.

Gin became popular in England after the Government allowed unlicensed gin production and at the same time imposed a heavy duty on all imported spirits.

In the early decades of the new kingdom, the lack of an effective land reform, heavy taxes and other economic measures imposed on the South, together with the removal of protectionist tariffs on agricultural goods, made the situation virtually impossible for many tenant farmers, and small business and land owners.

The heavy taxes that the administration imposed upon its population were deeply resented.

He imposed heavy sentences on those who were convicted ; some of the convictions were reversed on appeal, and other sentences were commuted.

In Henley Road, smuggling in colonial times was a reaction to the heavy taxes and regulations imposed by mercantilist trade policies.

The issue divided Ireland, for a significant unionist minority ( largely though by no means exclusively based in Ulster ), opposed Home Rule, fearing that a Catholic-Nationalist parliament in Dublin would discriminate against them and would also impose tariffs on industry ; while most of Ireland was primarily agricultural, six counties in Ulster were the location of heavy industry and would be affected by any tariff barriers imposed.

The industry eventually faded away shortly after the Second World War, when the newly independent Government of India imposed heavy taxation on pearls imported from the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

At the same time, the U. S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, which forced law enforcement officials ( even in states that had outlawed slavery ) to aid in the capture of fugitive slaves, and imposed heavy punishments on those who abetted escape.

Although the system imposed a heavy tax on hired civilian farmers ( 40 % to 60 % of agricultural production ), the farmers were more than pleased to be able to work with relative stability and professional military protection in a time of chaos.

A specific impetus for the novel was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which imposed heavy fines upon law enforcement personnel in Northern states if they refused to assist the return of people who escaped from slavery.

Hordes of herdsmen and the Southern Xiongnu, originally subdued by the Northern Xiongnu, began trading without having heavy tribute imposed on them.

Bevan opposed the heavy censorship imposed on radio and newspapers and wartime Defence Regulation 18B, which gave the Home Secretary the powers to intern citizens without trial.

This act imposed a heavy extra load on the girders supporting the bridge, and probably exacerbated the accident.

This revolt was partly caused by the heavy taxation in coin ( and not, as before, in kind ) imposed on Bulgaria at the time, but it also aimed at the restoration of the Bulgarian state under the leadership of Peter Delyan.

That extra weight imposed unacceptable kinematic performance limitations that restricted aircraft use to night operation, heavy weather, and heavy jamming environments until the 1970s.

The great distance to The Dalles made law enforcement a difficult problem, and imposed a heavy burden on citizens who had a need to transact business at the courthouse.

Most bodybuilding and weightlifting authorities do not take into account the severe nature of the stress imposed by heavy, strenuous resistance exercise carried to a point of positive muscular failure.

The fortresses of Ceuta, Tangiers and Mazagan were strengthened " to face the new military techniques, imposed by the generalization of heavy artillery, combined with light fire weapons and blades ".

However, many Mangaloreans ( not just Christians ) disliked him for the heavy tax burden he imposed on them.

His 1952 resignation as Minister of International Trade and Industry was the result of a blunt remark in the Diet that " it makes no difference to me if five or ten small businessmen are forced to commit suicide ," after Ikeda's policies favoring heavy industry were imposed.

The important community of Jerusalem at the time was also in need of money to keep up with the heavy taxes imposed on it by the Turkish government officials.

In 1929 he debated with John Maynard Keynes, contradicting the latter's view on the consequences of the heavy war reparations payments imposed on Germany.

Similar payroll tax boosts would be imposed on those under the railroad retirement system.

In the ninth and tenth centuries, much authority was lost to the great families, who disregarded the Chinese-style land and tax systems imposed by the government in Kyoto.

In 1791, Congress imposed an excise tax on distilled spirits, which led to protests in frontier districts, especially Pennsylvania.

First-time registration tax was doubled, annual licensing fees were increased by 300 %, and $ 0. 7 duty was imposed on each litre of on light oils.

The expanded welfare state of Finland from 1970 and 1990 increased the public sector employees and spending and the tax burden imposed on the citizens.

For example, they had to pay the jizya, a per capita tax imposed on free adult non-Muslim males, and they were also forbidden to bear arms or testify in court cases involving Muslims.

This marked the first time a pope ever imposed a direct tax on his clerical subjects.

As prescribed in Exodus ( 30: 11-16 ) Jewish law imposed a poll tax of half-shekel, payable by every man above the age of twenty (" the rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less ").

The ancient Romans imposed a tributum capitis ( poll tax ) as one of the principal direct taxes on the peoples of the Roman provinces ( Digest 50, tit. 15 ).

After the destruction of the temple in 70 CE, the Emperor imposed an extra poll tax on Jews throughout the empire, the fiscus judaicus, of two denari each.

Jizya is a poll tax imposed under Islamic law on non-Muslims-specifically, the dhimmi (" People of the Book ", i. e. Jews and Christians ).

In France, a poll tax, the capitation, was first imposed by King Louis XIV in 1695 as a temporary measure to finance the War of the League of Augsburg, and thus repealed in 1699.

A dwelling tax ( impôt sur les portes et fenêtres, similar to the English window-tax ) was imposed in 1791.

New Zealand imposed a poll tax on Chinese immigrants during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Afterwards, he chaired meetings of a group of former House members at a Williamsburg tavern, which worked toward responses to the unwelcome tax measures imposed by the British government.

" A tax " is not a voluntary payment or donation, but an enforced contribution, exacted pursuant to legislative authority " and is " any contribution imposed by government [...] whether under the name of toll, tribute, tallage, gabel, impost, duty, custom, excise, subsidy, aid, supply, or other name.

* A progressive tax is a tax imposed so that the effective tax rate increases as the amount to which the rate is applied increases.

Generally the tax is imposed on net profits from business, net gains, and other income.

Corporate tax refers to income, capital, net worth, or other taxes imposed on corporations.

The two most common type of event driven property taxes are stamp duty, charged upon change of ownership, and inheritance tax, which is imposed in many countries on the estates of the deceased.

The tax is often imposed based on a deemed disposition of all the individual's property.

In addition, the supply of people is in fact not fixed over time: on average, couples will choose to have fewer children if a poll tax is imposed.

An ad valorem tax is typically imposed at the time of a transaction ( sales tax or value added tax ( VAT )) but it may be imposed on an annual basis ( property tax ) or in connection with another significant event ( inheritance tax or tariffs ).