excessive taxation

collocation in English

meaningsofexcessiveandtaxation

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excessive
adjective
uk
/ekˈses.ɪv/us
/ekˈses.ɪv/
too ...
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taxation
noun[U]
uk
/tækˈseɪ.ʃən/us
/tækˈseɪ.ʃən/
the system of ...
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(Definition ofexcessiveandtaxationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The effects of continuingexcessivetaxationare, of course, wholly injurious.
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If we are dealing with honest people, now is the time to prove their honesty by refunding theexcessivetaxation.
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There is no point having exchange controls,excessivetaxationon dividends or a wholly dominant nationalised sector.
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I would remind him that there is a third way, that is, to slowly crush it byexcessivetaxation.
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That will not be achieved byexcessivetaxation.
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Theexcessivetaxationhas the inevitable consequence of reducing productivity in almost every sphere of activity in business, trade and commerce.
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There is no reason to anticipate that anyexcessivetaxationwill be necessary to provide the sum.
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That shows most clearly that thisexcessivetaxationupon tobacco has resulted in checking the consumption.
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Any other system would only result in inflation andexcessivetaxationwith all its evil and its consequences of rising prices and unemployment.
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That e-mail is a good example of howexcessivetaxationcan be counter-productive.
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It is no doubt a fact thatexcessivetaxationis a cause of this migration as it cannot be earned at home.
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No subject compares in importance or gravity with that of the intolerable burden ofexcessivetaxationwhich.
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In fact, he then proceeded to illustrate the effects ofexcessivetaxationwhich leads to dishonesty.
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All these proposals, valuable as they are, are only necessary because of theexcessivetaxationunder which we are groaning.
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Now that we have enormouslyexcessivetaxationit may be argued that, in the end, inflation will be the only way of lessening its weight.
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All that has been caused by several factors, principally the weakness and decline of corporate profitability underexcessivetaxationand regulatory costs.
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His fourth point relates to the consequences ofexcessivetaxation, especially excise duty on cigarettes.
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I am going to refer to-day to one of those causes, namely, theexcessivetaxationof the country.
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In their opinion, what the country is suffering from, and what is bringing us down as much as anything else, isexcessivetaxation.
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But when a multinational company seeks to avoidexcessivetaxation, that is considered a very bad thing to do.
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