poundage in English

noun
1
weight, especially when regarded as excessive.
reduce excess poundage without risking overexertion
2
a payment of a particular amount per pound sterling of the sum involved in a transaction.
He sifts through his papers again to repeat the agreement on business rates which commits the Executive to the current freeze on the rate poundage and increases over the next two years limited to no more than inflation.
noun

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1. Any banks can be dealt with, need shows his id card, do not need poundage.

2. His authority is total and in effect the tax rate, the poundage, is a national tax, locally varied.