1、duties; taxes; taxes and levies
2、Added operating costs because of exorbitant taxes and levies as well as long pay back period
3、The more the empire declined, the higher rose the taxes and levies, the more shamelessly the officials robbed and extorted.
4、though the existing tax system can be applied temporarily, unreasonable, exorbitant taxes and levies should gradually be abolished.
5、The second exploitation serfs suffered was corvee labor - a broad term covering not only corvee, but taxes and levies, and rents for land and livestock.
6、According to 1932 statistics, the Chinese peasants were subjected to 1,656 kinds of exorbitant taxes and levies, which took away 60-90 percent of their harvests.
7、The landlords imposed very heavy taxes and levies on the people; The Pacification Guards of Suichuan levied five toll charges along the seventy-li road from Huangao to Tsaolin, no farm produce being exempt.
8、To get rich, the magistrate and his underlings used to rely entirely on collecting taxes and levies, procuring men and provisions for the armed forces, and extorting money in civil and criminal lawsuits by confounding right and wrong, the last being the most regular and reliable source of income.
9、As the country is not yet unified and the authority of the imperialists and the warlords has not been overthrown, there is as yet no way of removing the heavy burden of government taxes and levies on the peasants or, more explicitly, of removing the burden of expenditure for the revolutionary army.
