1.   And remember that the Feds themselves slap a tax on Social Security if your taxable income exceeds a certain level.

2.   Legislators have a hard time resolving the tension between encouraging saving and slapping higher taxes on people who succeed economically by dint of their saving.

3.   New taxes are slapped on paper-wrapped cigarettes every year, making them too expensive for most bidi smokers.

4.   The stock exchange, angered at repeated tries by the supervisors to slap a tax on securities trading, threatened to move from the city.

5.   Chad, a former French colony, retaliated by slapping taxes on the French operation.

6.   State-owned oil transport monopoly Transneft on Tuesday urged the government to slap additional taxes on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.

7.   The center-left government slapped new taxes on gasoline, increased Value Added Tax and taxes on savings and certain pensions.

8.   The European Commission expressed concern Wednesday about Russian plans to slap a tax on anyone entering and leaving the country and said it would launch a protest.

9.   Dutch gambling casinos, complaining they had been turned into exchange bureaus, have slapped a tax on trading guilders for euros.

10.   Washington slapped the tax on the European cheese in response to a European Union ban on US beef produced with the use of growth hormones.