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Stamp Duty (1879-2005) The first set had thirty one values ranging from 1d to £100 and was also valid for postage. Most later stamps until 1904 were also valid for postage and they portrayed Queen Victoria. Numerals were introduced in 1904 and these remained in use, either in large or small format, until the 1960s.
e. Stamp duty is a tax that is levied on single property purchases or documents (including, historically, the majority of legal documents such as cheques, receipts, military commissions, marriage licences and land transactions). A physical revenue stamp had to be attached to or impressed upon the document to show that stamp duty had been paid ...
Like the other colonies, after federation Victoria continued to issue its own stamps. In 1901, King Edward VII made an appearance on the £1 and £2 stamps. The stamps of Victoria were superseded by those of the Commonwealth in 1913. A Registered mail stamp, December 1854. A 2d stamp of an 1885 design, inscribed "STAMP DUTY" and used in 1899.
1s 9d general-duty embossed adhesive stamp overprinted SPECIMEN, 1886. By the mid-19th century, the use of impressed duty stamps had become extensive, and for convenience purposes the stamps began to be embossed onto sheets of gummed paper, and then cut down and subsequently affixed to documents. [1]
Stamp duty land tax (SDLT) is a tax on land transactions in England and Northern Ireland. It was introduced by the Finance Act 2003. It largely replaced stamp duty with effect from 1 December 2003. SDLT is not a stamp duty, but a form of self-assessed transfer tax charged on "land transactions".
Queen Victoria Lilac and Green Issue. The Lilac and Green issue is a series of postage and revenue stamps issued in the United Kingdom in 1883 and 1884. The stamps are known as such because they were only printed in those two colours; lilac being used for the 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 d, 2d, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 d, 3d values and dull green for the 4d, 5d, 6d, 9d and 1s.
A collection of Indian postage and revenue stamps, with various Indian dies and plates. A group of nine albums containing Indian fiscal stamps, Bonded Salt Boat notes, Court Fees, Hundi paper, promissory notes and sundry other duties. Also, copper dies and punches, and proofs and colour trials of stamps for Ceylon, India, Jamaica and Mauritius.
A block of four £2 "Roo" stamps showing the printer's imprint in the selvedge 1d King George V, used at Sydney in 1916. The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 had operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps – see articles on the systems on New South Wales (first stamps issued 1850), Victoria (1850), Tasmania ...