10 Facts About Stamp Act

In South Australia, the Stamp Duties Act 1923 was first enacted in 1923, then revised or amended almost yearly until its current version of 2017.

Stamp Act tax was a tax on each newspaper and thus hit cheaper papers and popular readership harder than wealthy consumers, because it formed a higher proportion of the purchase price.

The Stamp Act Office was awarded the Charter Mark by John Major's Advisory Committee as a reward for its public service.

Stamp Act duties are the oldest taxes still raised by the HM Revenue and Customs.

The Stamp Act 1765 was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America.

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Some opponents of the Stamp Act distinguished between "internal" taxes like the stamp duty, which they claimed Parliament had no right to impose, and revenue legitimately raised through the regulation on trade.

In general most colonists considered the Stamp Act to be a violation of their rights as Englishmen to be taxed without their consent – consent that only the colonial legislatures could grant because Americans were unrepresented in Parliament.

The Stamp Act Congress was another step in the process of attempted common problem-solving.

Delegates to the Stamp Act Congress approved a fourteen-point Declaration of Rights and Grievances as a petition to the Parliament and the King, formulated largely by John Dickinson of Pennsylvania.

Stamp Act was repealed in early 1766, although the Declaratory Stamp Act maintained Parliament's right to tax the colonies.