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Projects like a BNSF owned railroad bridge over a river slated for study/maintenance/repair/rebuilding with public road-tax dollars.
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Several taxes still have to be paid as vehicles cross the border, however, including "new vehicle tax" (ISAN), value-added tax (IVA) and road-tax (tenencia), which probably offset any savings due to lower vehicle prices in the U.S.
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Why these people are content to work out their road-tax by such sore travail of mind and body appeareth to us mysterious.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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To complete the exactions with a touch of irony, there was also an education-tax and a heavy road-tax for the upkeep of the indescribable highways.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917
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"The folks is that sick o 'him that they was talkin' some o 'runnin' him acrost the mountains," replied Byram; "but I jest made the boys hold their horses till I got that there road-tax outen him first."
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"If you he'p me ketch Dan McCloud with them birds in his ice-box, I'll he'p you git your road-tax outen him," he proposed.
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"One o 'them people is Dan McCloud, an' I'm goin 'after that road-tax to-night," said Byram.
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"It's only about your road-tax," began the girl, looking up at him with pleasant gray eyes.
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"I guess I do," said Byram, "an 'I'm a-goin' to buy one, too -- unless you pay that there road-tax."
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"An 'I'm bound to git my road-tax," said Byram, "but jest how I'm to operate I dunno."
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