stamp duty
Britishnoun
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She stood down in September 2025 after admitting she underpaid stamp duty on her £800,000 flat in Hove.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
The IFS argues that an efficient way to generate tax revenue would be some sort of combined land value and proportional property tax - to replace stamp duty and council tax.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Cook argues that stamp duty is a simple tax because it's levied on the point of sale of a property and generates "upfront receipts" for the Treasury.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
"More or less any property tax or local tax is going to be better than stamp duty," says Stuart Adam from the IFS.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
On the 15th an amendment was adopted that papers publishing a feuilleton should pay an additional tax of one centime beyond the ordinary stamp duty.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
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