Last year its taxes soared to 63.3 percent of its profits because of two unusual circumstances.

Mary Rothing, a housewife in Yonkers, says taxes have soared so high that "they're not taxes, they're extortion."

As Government spending swelled the national debt and taxes soared, Mr. Bossi's message to voters in the industrial north was blunt: secede.

Over the past six years this punitive tax has soared by 325 per cent on long-haul flights.

"Local taxes clearly would have soared without it, but we've been told that we won't get it next year," he said.

When the plant came off the town's property-tax rolls after a state takeover, homeowners' taxes soared.

To make up for the pillage, local taxes soared.

As taxes and the national deficit soared, international activities were trimmed.

Local taxes are soaring and services are breaking down.

Startled, Mr. Knox said he worried that his taxes would soar.