And they decided to announce a 200 percent punitive tax on these goods after the Presidential election if a settlement could not be reached.

The Government would also lift trade restrictions on private concerns and take steps to cut punitive corporate taxes, she added.

Since most Americans are kept honest by withholding, "the middle class and the poor pay punitive taxes to make up the deficiency."

Raises above that will be penalized by extremely high punitive taxes.

Under the economic reform plan, state enterprises must now pay punitive taxes if they raise their wages above certain ceilings.

People considering retiring early would be caught by that punitive tax.

Over the past six years this punitive tax has soared by 325 per cent on long-haul flights.

This was not yet the country of people ground down by punitive taxes or the privations of war.

We cannot allow Member States to introduce a kind of punitive tax.

In 2012 the Government has got to tackle the punitive taxes on beer.