0 a situation in which you have to pay far too much money for something: --
1 a situation in which someone is charged a price that is much too high: --
Otherwise, such a tax is confiscation and daylight robbery.
We have heard cries of, "daylight robbery", and "windfall profit" from time to time during the past few months.
I welcome the changes to council tax benefits, as a response to the "daylight robbery" campaign.
Considering what those councils do with the money, those figures represent not cuts but daylight robbery.
These are absolutely unspeakable practices that are bordering on daylight robbery, and these operators are responsible - they provide no transparency for consumers.
However, capital gains tax that does not take account of inflation is confiscation for that inflation amount, and, therefore, daylight robbery.
What happens at present amounts to nothing less than daylight robbery.
I made it quite clear that this is going beyond privatisation—it is sheer daylight robbery.
