Verb
The word is derived from levy
of Levy
Source: Webster's dictionaryChange of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Nicolas Chamfort
EXCISE, n.' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. Samuel Johnson
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. Robert A. Heinlein
III. Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. Adam Smith
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. Ralph Waldo Emerson