I am not sure whether there were taxes on our losses.

The town collected taxes, and the county, and the central government; and the chief of police we had always with us.

There were taxes for public works, but rotten pavements went on rotting year after year; and when a bridge was to be built, special taxes were levied.

A bridge, by the way, was not always a public highway.

A railroad bridge across the Dvina, while open to the military, could be used by the people only by individual permission.
My uncle explained to me all about the excise duties on tobacco.
Tobacco being a source of government revenue, there was a heavy tax on it.