stamp duty

British

noun

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

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The stamp duty, or property-sales charge, was temporarily waived from September 2022 until March 31, 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

The stamp duty, or property sales charge, was temporarily waived between September 2022 and April 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026

Millar said economists had described stamp duty as one of the "most economically damaging taxes that we have".

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026

Other possible announcements on Wednesday include lowering the tax-free allowance for cash Isas and changes to stamp duty.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

Q. Are not the colonies, from their circumstances, very able to pay the stamp duty?

From Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin; Written by Himself. [Vol. 1 of 2] With His Most Interesting Essays, Letters, and Miscellaneous Writings; Familiar, Moral, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Franklin, Benjamin

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