revenue stamp

American  

noun

1. a stamp showing that a governmental tax has been paid.

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Etymology

Origin of revenue stamp

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

Later comes trimming, boxing, and finally sealing with the internal revenue stamp.

From Time Magazine Archive

As it is a penal offence to use a postage stamp a second time, so it is a punishable offence to attempt the use of a cancelled or torn internal revenue stamp.

From Business Hints for Men and Women by Calhoun, Alfred Rochefort

Geometric lathework was used on a number of the United States stamps of the issue of 1861 and also on the $5,000 revenue stamp.

From What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 by Luff, John N.

He explained the revenue stamp required upon a bill of exchange was one-eighth of 1 per cent. of the face of the bill, making the tax on my single bill 187 francs, or about $37.

From Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude by Bidwell, Austin

I should say Nahant,--well, at some watering-place, I really forget precisely where,--we have no taxes, and know not what a revenue stamp is like!

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870 by Various