Assess

(verb.) estimate the value of (property) for taxation; 'Our house hasn't been assessed in years'.

(verb.) charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine.

录入:罗兰

• From others he demands a certain sum, but leaves it to the states of each province to assess and levy that sum as they think proper. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The greater part of it was laid upon the country; and of what was laid upon the towns, the greater part was assessed upon the houses. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In some towns, the whole land tax is assessed upon houses; as in Westminster, where stock and trade are free. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Where such taxes, therefore, are properly assessed, and upon proper commodities, they are paid with less grumbling than any other. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They could not, therefore, be assessed according to any rent roll. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The valuation, according to which each different parish and district is assessed to this tax, is always the same. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The inferior ranks of people in the provinces are assessed in the second. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• No man subject to such a tax, it is evident, can ever be certain, before he is assessed, of what he is to pay. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In some provinces of France, the king not only imposes what taxes he thinks proper, but assesses and levies them in the way he thinks proper. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The more severe government of France assesses upon each generality a certain sum, which the intendant must find as he can. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He condemns a whole street at a time, assesses the damages, pays them, and rebuilds superbly. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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