"tax" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Although a few big domestic cars avoid the guzzler tax because they are averaged in with smaller models, there is no question that Detroit has become serious about fuel economy.
- But because the GTO is a passenger car, the rating is low enough to require buyers to pay a $1,000 guzzler tax.
- G.M. officials, both in engineering and public relations, say the company had been operating under a clear directive, if not quite an iron-clad policy, to avoid making automobiles that would be subject to the guzzler tax.
- Driven hurriedly, the M returned 17 m.p.g.; the E.P.A. rating - 16 m.p.g. in the city, 24 on the highway - earns it a $1,000 guzzler tax.
- This trick gives the car a bump in the fuel-economy ratings, keeping it free of a guzzler tax, but that hardly justifies such an intrusive system - especially since owners routinely disable it with a $20 after-market part.
- The Shelby's poor mileage wins it one distinction: a $1,300 guzzler tax.
- The testing was mandated by the Energy Tax Act of 1978 in order to determine the rate of the guzzler tax that applies for the sales of new cars.
- A weight average of city (55%) and highway (45%) fuel economies is used to determine the guzzler tax.
- The Chinese government has been increasingly intent on energy conservation, imposing gas-mileage requirements on all models of cars, minivans and sport utility vehicles introduced after July 1, and preparing to impose gas- guzzler taxes, too.
- The guzzler tax is applied first; the luxury tax adds insult to injury.
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