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For visual examples of the above stamp formats please go to: "oz revenues.com" - "Research Analysis & Odd Items" - "Adhesive Duty Stamps of Victoria in the Decimal era". By 2005 all stamp duties for which payment could be evidenced by the affixing of duty stamps had been abolished in the State of Victoria and the printing of Duty Stamps had ...
South Australia was the first Australian state to introduce a land tax, based on the unimproved capital value of land, in 1884. [6] [7] In 1910, George Allen (first secretary to the Treasury) founded the Land Tax Office to service land taxes at the federal level as a form of wealth tax and as a means to break up large tracts of underutilised land.
A 1907 customs duty revenue stamp of Australia. Australia issued revenue stamps from 1907 to 1994. There were various types for different taxes. In addition to Commonwealth issues, the states of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia as well as the territories Australian Capital Territory, North Australia and Northern Territory also had their own ...
The stamp duty inscription was dropped in 1896. Victoria issued semi-postal stamps in 1897 and 1901, in the first instance the extra income went to a hospital fund, and in the second, to a Boer War Patriotic Fund. Like the other colonies, after federation Victoria continued to issue its own stamps.
Payroll tax is a general purpose tax assessed on the wages paid by an employer in Western Australia. The tax is self-assessed in that the employer calculates the liability and then pays the appropriate amount to the Office of State Revenue, by way of a monthly, quarterly or annual return. From 1 July 2014: [32] The rate of payroll tax is 5.5%.
A government report [85] in 1986 for Brisbane, Queensland advocated an LVT. The Henry Tax Review of 2010 commissioned by the federal government recommended that state governments replace stamp duty with LVT. The review proposed multiple marginal rates and that most agricultural land would be in the lowest band with a rate of zero.
Indian laws require stamp duty payments on a limited category of transaction documents. Broadly, documents affecting rights and titles to property require stamp duties to be paid. The central government requires stamp duty to be paid on several classes of transaction documents, primarily focused on securities, under the Indian Stamp Act, 1899. [5]
The ACCC approved this request on 28 May 2010 and it was published in the Government Gazette on 9 June 2010. [3] [4] [5] On 26 December 2013, due to the heavy decline in mail usage due to competition from email, etc., Australia Post requested an increase in the base rate to 70c. [6]