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)...

In architecture, an impost or impost block is a projecting block resting on top of a column or embedded in a wall, serving as the base for the springer...

called "handicap"), each horse must carry a specified weight called the impost, assigned by the racing secretary or steward based on factors such as past...

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...

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...

reduced inheritance and personal income taxes, cancelled many excise imposts, eliminated the gift tax and ended public access to federal income tax...

Constitution: "Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises." But Congress has repeatedly shifted its powers regarding...

A pulvino (or impost block) is an architectural structural element (dosseret) having the shape of an inverted pyramid cushion, which is placed between...

above, transferring it from stone to stone to the springer's bottom face (impost), which is horizontal and passes the thrust on to the supports. Voussoir...

a strong advocate of protective tariffs. The primary intention of such imposts was not to raise revenue, but to allow American manufacturing to develop...

Act dischargeing the custom of tuo and a halff of the hundredth and the impost of four punds on the tun. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision (Scotland) Act...

in February 1781, to give Congress the power to collect a five percent impost, or duty on all imports, but this required ratification by all states; securing...

figures, which rest on a molded impost and buttresses. The southern doorway has a pointed arch with a plinth and an impost on the buttresses, and the right...

race, and each time he won under steadily increasing handicap weights (imposts) of up to 130 pounds (59 kg). For the third time, Seabiscuit faced off...

soffit is the curved inner surface of the arch or vault located above the impost, as opposed to the outer surface called the arch or vault crest. Jamb statue...

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vehicle ownership. An import or export tariff (also called customs duty or impost) is a charge for the movement of goods through a political border. Tariffs...

amendments to the Articles required the consent of all thirteen states: the 1781 impost plan had been rejected by Rhode Island and Virginia, while the revised plan...

pass an amendment granting the central government the power to levy an impost on imports, Morris paid the army with certificates that the soldiers labeled...

services such as food, medicine, and transportation. ?  Andorra 4.5% 1% IGI = Impost General Indirecte  Angola 7% 5% which applies to the import and supply of...

railway viaduct features rock-faced ashlar limestone piers with a cut stone impost supporting squared coursed limestone spandrels with dressed limestone string...

including the power to lay and collect "taxes, duties, imposts, and excises" (provided duties, imposts, and excises are uniform throughout the United States)...

History. 22 (1): 43–56. doi:10.1111/j.1750-0206.2003.tb00607.x. "The Odious Imposts". Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser. Dublin, Ireland. 14...

of an arch, or masonry used to resist the lateral forces of a vault. The impost or abacus of a column in classical architecture may also serve as an abutment...

entrance with a pointed arch, a chamfered surround under a relieving arch, impost bands, stone coping, and a cross. Listed buildings in Great Smeaton Page...

were closed to them. The Jews were also burdened with heavy taxes and imposts. In the German Kingdom of Prussia, the government materially modified the...

land. A graduated income tax was imposed, and there were increases in imposts on tobacco, beer and spirits. A tax on petrol was introduced despite Treasury...

to pay off federal debts. A second attempt was made to approve a federal impost in 1785; however, this time it was New York which disapproved. The Confederation...

enfranchisement, or the price paid for it, or to a particular kind of tax, fine, impost, or exaction. Mercheta Mulierum, custom on Scottish island of Ulva "Merchet"...

the profitability of industries. In capitalist production, a basic profit impost is the normal precondition for the supply of goods and services. When competition...