stamp duty

English

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”).

Translations

tax on certain documents

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 印花稅 / 印花税 (zh) (yìnhuāshuì)

• Finnish: leimavero (fi)
• French: droit d'enregistrement m
• German: Stempelsteuer f
• Icelandic: stimpilgjald n
• Indonesian: bea materai
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: 印紙税 (ja) (いんしぜい, inshizei)
• Korean: 인지세 (印紙稅) (ko) (injise)
• Portuguese: imposto de selo m
• Russian: ге́рбовый сбор (ru) m (gérbovyj sbor)
• Spanish: póliza (es) f
• Swahili: ushuru wa stempu
• Swedish: stämpelskatt

Further reading

• stamp duty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia