On 1/17/06, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17/01/06 10:58 -0800, A. M. Merritt wrote:
On 1/17/06, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/5/06, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IIRC, the guy that was arrested in
the Stamp Paper scam was also subjected to this (aside: whatever
On 17/01/06 11:21 -0800, Thaths wrote:
On 1/17/06, A. M. Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/17/06, Devdas Bhagat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Basically, anything which requires the payment of small amounts of fees,
and a lot of paperwork/documentation.
Stuff like legal agreements (of
that you pay a certain amount of money to get that stamp.
So a contract isn't official unless it's on stamp paper?
It sounds like a way for the guvmint to account for fee
payment, and to extract money for blessing contracts
and agreements of any kind. I can now see why it's a
big deal to
On 1/17/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Badri Natarajan wrote:
But yes, it is a tax on transactions by the government - big revenue
earner too. The use of stamp duty is decreasing though - as I recall, only
two things (under English law) are still subject to it - sales
On 1/18/06, A. M. Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now that I think about it, the only thing I see around here (inthe US) that has a tax stamp on it is imported liquor.Isometimes hear quiet tales of bootlegged untaxed liquorsmuggled down from Canada, and it won't have a tax
stamp, that's for
