Surcharge
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A surcharge may mean:
- an extra feeFeeA fee is the price one pays as remuneration for services. Fees usually allow for overhead, wages, costs, and markup.Traditionally, professionals in Great Britain received a fee in contradistinction to a payment, salary, or wage, and would often use guineas rather than pounds as units of account...
added onto another fee or charge- Fuel surcharge, sky freight charges which represents additions due to jet fuel prices.
- Bunker adjustment factorBunker adjustment factorBunker adjustment factor, bunker surcharge or BAF refers to floating part of sea freight charges which represents additions due to oil prices. BAF charges used to be determined by Carrier Conferences to be applicable for a certain period on a certain trade route.The European Commission banned...
, sea freight charges which represents additions due to oil prices.
- an overprintOverprintAn overprint is an additional layer of text or graphics added to the face of a postage stamp or banknote after it has been printed. Post offices most often use overprints for internal administrative purposes such as accounting but they are also employed in public mail...
that affects the value of a postage stamp - a surcharge (sanction)Surcharge (sanction)In the United Kingdom a public servant, for example a local government officer, who has unlawfully spent public funds, or caused loss to a public authority through misconduct may be surcharged to recover public money...
against a public servant who has abused public funds - any loading from above the soil line upon earth being supported by a retaining wall
- SurtaxSurtaxA surtax may be a tax levied upon a tax, or a tax levied upon income.-United Kingdom:In 1929, Supertax was renamed Sur-tax...
, extra tax levied upon tax