6 sentences with 'taxing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word taxing and other words derived from it.
• « They also managed to reform the tax system to gain access to more revenue, especially by taxing trade, so that by 1500 the Spanish army was the largest and most feared in Europe. »
• « Since the nobility and the church were almost exempt from taxation, and the monarchy had no systematic way of taxing trade, there was much wealth in France that the crown simply could not access through taxation. »
• « The king reluctantly realised that only by taxing the nobility and, perhaps, the Church could he raise the necessary revenue. Louis XVI was thus confronted with the entrenched interests of the most powerful classes in his kingdom. »
• « By 750, Soninke farmers in the sub-Sahara had enriched themselves by taxing trade passing through their area. »
• « Those who called for a stronger federal government were known as nationalists. The Nationalist group pushing for the taxing power included Washington's chief of staff, Alexander Hamilton; Virginia planter James Madison; wealthy Pennsylvania merchant Robert Morris (who served under the Confederate government as superintendent of finance in the early 1780s); and Pennsylvania lawyer James Wilson. »
• « Using the taxing power granted to him by the Constitution, Hamilton submitted a proposal to tax whisky manufactured in the United States. »