Across-the-board in a sentence as an adjective

I sense intuitively, though, that things like "15% across-the-board tax" are innately retrograde solutions that would serve to choke the beneficial and legal side of the service. Occasional users really are not in the business of providing hotel lodgings and it is a pretty big leap to say that they should be required to pay taxes as if they were.

Across-the-board definitions

adjective

broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"