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.
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
• 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
• Swedish: stämpelskatt

Further reading

• stamp duty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia