Stamp Duty

Definition: Stamp Duty

Stamp Duty

Noun

1. A tax collected by requiring a stamp to be purchased and attached (usually on documents or publications).

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Mining

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Synonym: Stamp Duty

Books

• Victorian conveyancing costs : being the solicitors' remuneration order, annotated with cost tabulations, ready reckoners, precedents of bills and stamp duty reckoner (reference)

• Estate duty saving and capital gains tax, including the incidence of income tax, surtax, stamp duty and corporation tax (reference)

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Economic History

Finland

The stamp duty on transactions conducted on the Stock Exchange and on the OTC market has been abolished. (references)

Kenya

The capital gains tax was suspended in 1985, followed by the removal of stamp duty on transfer of listed securities. (references)

Jamaica

Relief from income tax, stamp duty and transfer tax is provided for persons who purchase bonds issued for the purpose of urban development. (references)

Political Economy

JAMAICA

In addition to import duties, certain items such as beverages and tobacco, motor vehicles and some agricultural products carry an additional stamp duty (ranging from 25 - 63 percent) and special consumption tax (ranging from 5 - 39.9 percent). (references)

Trade

Kenya

Incentives provided to manufacturers in the Export Processing Zones include: a ten-year corporate tax holiday and 25 percent tax rate thereafter; a ten year withholding tax holiday on dividend remittance; duty and VAT exemption on all inputs except motor vehicles; stamp duty exemption on legal instruments; exemption from Industrial Registration act, Factories Act, Statistics Act, and Trade Licensing Act; exemption from pre-shipment inspection; on site customs inspection; and work permits for senior expatriate staff. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Bulgarian 

гербов налог. (various references)

Czech

kolkovné. (various references)

German

Stempelgebühr. (various references)

Greek 

χαρτόσημο (stamp), τέλοσ χαρτοσήμου. (various references)

Hungarian

bélyegilleték. (various references)

Italian

bollo (cachet, postage, postage stamp, seal, stamp, tax disc). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

印紙税 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

い�"しぜい. (various references)

Manx

keesh chlouag. (various references)

Pig Latin

ampstay utyday

Romanian

impozit al timbrului. (various references)

Russian 

гербовый сбор (stamp-duty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

taksa (penalty, tax). (various references)

Swedish

stämpelskatt, stämpelavgift. (various references)

Turkish

pul vergisi. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: adytum, datums, smutty, stumpy.

-4 letters: adust, damps, datum, dauts, dumas, dumps, dumpy, dusty, matts, mauds, mauts, mayst, musty, mutts, pasty, patsy, patty, pumas, putts, putty, spumy, sputa, stamp, study, stump, stupa, sutta, tamps, tasty, tauts, tumps, yauds, yaups.

-5 letters: amps, amus, damp, dams, daps, daut, days, duma, dump, dups, dust, duty, mads, maps.