Crossword-Solution: SURTAX 6 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The lowest rates were those granted the United Kingdom; then came the intermediate tariff, for the products of countries giving Canada special terms; next the general tariff; and, finally, the surtax for use against powers discriminating in any special degree against the Dominion.

After four years' deliberation Canada eventually retaliated by imposing on German goods a special surtax of thirty-three and one-third per cent.

Your father is not an old man in years, but he has placed a constant surtax on his nervous system for the last twenty-five years without a let-up, and it doesn't make any difference how good a machine may be it is going to wear out some day, and the better the machine the more complete will be the wreck when the final break occurs." As he spoke he watched the girl's face, the changing expression of it, which marked her growing mental perturbation.

China is also to be allowed to levy a surtax on certain articles, mainly luxuries, which will yield an additional revenue.

Representatives of Southern Ireland have been clamouring for greater financial control, but they quite changed their tone when Clause 24, enabling the Irish Parliaments to impose a surtax upon residents in Ireland, came up for discussion.