stamp duty

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Noun

stamp duty (countable and uncountable, plural stamp duties)

  1. (economics) A tax levied upon certain documents, a stamp being applied to show that tax has been paid.
    • 2009, Philip McCouat, Australian Motor Vehicle Tax Guide (page 139)
      an all-up amount including GST and LCT (but not stamp duty, registration etc)
  2. (UK) Ellipsis of stamp duty land tax (“a tax on land transactions in England and Northern Ireland”).

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