stamp duty

基本解释

Accelerated Trackers are listed on the London stock market and are dealt just like ordinary shares through a stockbroker, although with the advantage that no stamp duty is payable when buying.
加速追踪产品在伦敦证券市场挂牌交易，可以像普通股票一样委托股票经纪人买卖，并具有无须缴纳印花税的优点。
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Even if all the tax they pay is VAT on expensive meals in London restaurants or stamp duty on flats in Mayfair, it is still additional income for Mr Brown.
即使他们纳的税全是伦敦餐厅大餐的增值税或住在梅菲尔（译者注：伦敦上流住宅区）的公寓所上交的印花税，仍是布朗的额外收入。
If he had purchased an apartment of the same value, he would have had to put down 30%, pay a large stamp duty and attorney fees.
但如果他想买一个相同价值的公寓，他就不得不支付30%的首付，支付大量印花税和律师费。

Stamp duty is cheap to collect but it raises the cost of capital for firms.
ECONOMIST: Tax politics

a tax on legal documents, publications, etc, the payment of which is certified by the attaching or impressing of official stamps