- Look up
impost in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Impost may mean: A type of tax,
especially a tax
levied on
imports A
handicap (usually a lead weight)...
-
serving as the base for the
springer or
lowest voussoir of an arch. The
imposts are left
smooth or profiled, and "then
express a
certain separation between...
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reduced inheritance and
personal income taxes,
cancelled many
excise imposts,
eliminated the gift tax and
ended public access to
federal income tax...
- mints. He
stated that it
would be US
policy "to
collect the
duties and
imposts"; "there will be no invasion, no
using of
force against or
among the people...
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policy through the
enumerated power to "lay and
collect Taxes, Duties,
Imposts and Excises, to pay the
Debts and
provide for the
common Defence and general...
- a
strong advocate of
protective tariffs. The
primary intention of such
imposts was not to
raise revenue, but to
allow American manufacturing to develop...
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including the
power to lay and
collect "taxes, duties,
imposts, and excises" (provided duties,
imposts, and
excises are
uniform throughout the
United States)...
- duties,
imposts, and excises, ... but all duties,
imposts, and
excises shall be
uniform throughout the
United States.": 132 If the term "
imposts" was intended...
- Constitution: "Congress
shall have
Power To lay and
collect Taxes, Duties,
Imposts and Excises." But
Congress has
repeatedly shifted its
powers regarding...
- Duties,
Imposts and Excises, to pay the
Debts and
provide for the
common Defence and
general Welfare of the
United States; but all Duties,
Imposts and Excises...
