1881. Leeds Mercury, 6 April, 5/4. In the reduction of the surtax on foreign spirits,… Mr. Gladstone has wisely and consistently cast off, I believe, the only rags of Protection which remained upon our tariff.
1888. Pall Mall G., 24 April, 12/1. Champagne wine in the ordinary magnums, bottles, pints, and half pints will pay with duty and surtax 3s. 6d. per gallon.
1902. Spectator, 2 Aug., 137/1. The local Treasuries are to receive a surtax upon the Customs.
So Surtax v. trans., to tax additionally, charge with a surtax.
1906. C. Bigg, Wayside Sk. Eccl. Hist., v. 126, note. What we call Socialism now appears to be merely the right of the poor to surtax the rich.
