stamp duty

noun

1. a tax on legal documents, publications, etc, the payment of which is certified by the attaching or impressing of official stamps

Example Sentences

Welsh Conservatives leader Darren Millar said a budget agreement "may be possible" if the government considered policies such as scrapping Welsh stamp duty for primary residential properties.

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And then a dose of tax cuts—above all on the stamp duty charged on house purchases, but also on a form of premises tax paid by businesses, among others.

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In turn, that could mean first-time buyers paying less in stamp duty, but having to find a bigger deposit.

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It was new to us, and to many in the party too: the abolition of stamp duty on main homes in England and Northern Ireland.

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She said scrapping stamp duty - a tax on the sale of homes in England and Northern Ireland - will "unlock a fairer and more aspirational society" and help people of all ages.

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