A progressive tax was levied upon inheritances.

对遗产征收累进税。

The power of Spain and Portugal, on the contrary, derives some support from the taxes levied upon their colonies.

相反，西班牙和葡萄牙的权力从对其殖民地征收的税款中得到一些支持。

The vingtieme seems not to have raised the rate of those annuities, though it is exactly levied upon them all.

vintieme 似乎没有提高这些年金的税率，尽管它是对他们所有人征收的。

France, indeed, has never drawn any considerable revenue from its colonies, the taxes which it levies upon them being generally spent among them.

的确，法国从来没有从其殖民地取得过任何可观的收入， 它向殖民地征收的税款通常在他们中间花费。

But this additional tax is levied only upon the district under-charged, and it is applied altogether to the relief of that overcharged, which consequently pays only nine hundred livres.

但这种附加税只对征税不足的地区征收， 而且它完全适用于多征税款的减免， 因此多征税款只支付九百里弗。

Capitation taxes, so far as they are levied upon the lower ranks of people, are direct taxes upon the wages of labour, and are attended with all the inconveniencies of such taxes.

就对下层人民征收的人头税而言，它是对劳动工资的直接征税，并伴随着这种税收的所有不便之处。

A large revenue might thus be levied upon the people, without any part of it being applied to the only purpose to which a revenue levied in this manner ought ever to be applied.

因此，可能会向人民征收大量收入，而其中的任何一部分都没有用于以这种方式征收的收入应该用于的唯一目的。