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Stamp duty in the United Kingdom
Tax charged on legal instruments / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stamp duty in the United Kingdom is a form of tax charged on legal instruments (written documents), and historically required a physical stamp to be attached to or impressed upon the document in question.[1][2] The more modern versions of the tax no longer require a physical stamp.