compulsory loan

A lot of people suspect that blocking savers' access to their money violates the new constitution's explicit ban on compulsory loans to the government.

After Montrose's departure for Norway in September 1646, compulsory loans were levied against leading Royalists.

When the lawfulness of annuities was established, they were widely used in commerce; it seems that city states used them to raise compulsory loans from their citizens.

Owing to this, he concentrated himself on the consolidation of Reich finances through reconstruction and creation of capital gains, asset, and income taxes, along with compulsory loans.

"You open the door and get a blueberry pie in the face," one American accountant said over lunch, recounting an earlier compulsory loan to the Brazilian Government that was never repaid.

After imposing a compulsory loan traders, had to leave the city when it was bombed again by theDemocraticMexican warship, which during its attack, caused a high number of women and children to be killed or wounded.

I do not speak now of the ulterior consequences of that event; I speak only of the fact itself, and its first results, such as the repeal of the law of hostages, and the compulsory loan of a hundred millions.

On the revenue side, indirect taxes, notably on petrol, would be increased, and taxpayers would be obliged to make compulsory loans to the government (of between 2 and 4 per cent of annual income) to be repaid without interest in 1997.

In the annual budget message to Congress, U.S. president Roosevelt said that new sacrifices and $16 billion in new taxes or "compulsory loans" would be needed to meet spending needs of $100 billion for the war effort, and $9 billion for other purposes.

This business, which, in a manner, the Jews were forced to pursue in order to pay the many taxes imposed upon them as well as to raise the compulsory loans demanded of them by the kings, led to their being employed in special positions, as "almoxarifes", bailiffs, tax-farmers, or tax-collectors.