
	Where results make sense

Topic: War tax stamp

Related Topics

postage stamp

Stamp Act

stamp collecting

commemorative stamp

stamp collectors

Terence Stamp

rubber stamp

Postage stamp separation

List of people on stamps of the United States

food stamps

List of people on stamps of Canada

People on stamps

In the News (Wed 3 Dec 08)

Damian Green

Sumner Redstone

Crimson Tide

Tommy Tuberville

Bill Clinton

Wayne Rooney

Vilasrao Deshmukh

Wake Forest

Grand Slam

Oklahoma State

	War tax stamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A war tax stamp is a type of postage stamp added to an envelope in addition to regular postage.
		It is similar to a postal tax stamp, but the revenue is used to defray the costs of a war; as with other postal taxes, its use is obligatory for some period of time.
		The first war tax stamp was produced in 1874 in Spain, during the Third Carlist War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_tax_stamp (165 words)

	Postage stamp
		The adhesive postage stamp and the uniform postage rate was devised by James Chalmers[?] around 1834.
		The first postage stamp was the Penny Black issued by the United Kingdom in 1840 with Queen Victoria on the stamp.
		Stamps should be distinguished from cinderellas, stamp-like labels that resemble, but are not, postage stamps.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Stamp.html (1490 words)

	Postage stamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stamp issued by France commemorating Carcassonne in 2000, notice the unusual panaromic format where the stamp has has normal height but is very wide.
		customised stamp - a stamp the picture or image in which can in some way be chosen by the purchaser, either by sending in a photograph or by use of the computer.
		perforated stamps - while this term is often used to refer to the perforations around the edge of a stamp (used to divide the sheet into individual stamps) it is also a technical term for stamps which have been additionally perforated across the middle leaving a distinctive pattern or monogram.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postage_stamps (1962 words)

	Postage stamp - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Automatenmarken, stamps issued in the denomination of the customer's choice by a kind of machine (similar to computer-vended postage) are also referred to by the acronym ATM, which has created some confusion.
		In addition the amount of ink used on the paper was the same as was used to produce the actual postage stamps, thus they could test the machines with, (as near as possible), the stamps that would be used in general use.
		The colour of these test stamps was changed from green to fl after 1937 when some test coils were left in a machine and used as half-penny stamps after being dispenced.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Postage_stamp (1944 words)

	1861-1865: The Civil War
		Accumulating war debts and heightened condemnation of a "rich man’s war, poor man’s fight" led to revision of the tax law in February 1864, which suspended the requirement for a census-based apportionment of direct taxes and imposed a 5 percent levy on land and slaves.
		It instituted stamp taxes, value added taxes on manufactured goods and processed meats, inheritance taxes, taxes on the gross receipts of corporations, banks, and insurance companies, as well as taxes on dividends or interest they paid to investors.
		Taxes were withheld from the salaries of government employees as well as from dividends paid to corporations (the same method of collection later employed during World War II).
	www.tax.org /museum/1861-1865.htm (2628 words)

	War Tax Resistance
		There has been instances of people refusing to pay taxes for war in virtually every American war, but it was not until World War II and the establishment of a permanent, centralized U.S. military (symbolized by the building of the Pentagon) was the modern war tax resistance movement born.
		War tax refusal succeeded in achieving nationwide publicity in 1949 with the issue of a Peacemaker press release titled “Forty-one Refuse to Pay Income Tax.” For almost twenty years Peacemakers was virtually the only consistent source of information and support for war tax resisters.
		War tax resistance gained nationwide publicity when Joan Baez announced in 1964 her refusal to pay 60 percent of her 1963 income taxes because of the war in Vietnam.
	www.warresisters.org /history_wtr.htm (2610 words)

	Civil War Tax Stamps on Medicines
		Although the federal government issued revenue stamps that could be used to signify payment of the tax, these companies were also given the option of preparing, at the government's expense, individualized stamps that were to be affixed to the product in such a way that opening the product would destroy the stamp.
		The stamp indicated that four cents was paid to the government as a tax on a proprietary medicine, and all proprietary medicines (along with matches, playing cards and perfumes) were taxed after the Civil War to repay the war debt.
		Stamps of this shape were designed to be glued over the top of the bottle, as a seal of genuineness, as there were many counterfeits (generics?) in the 19th century.
	faculty.samford.edu /~jdbowman/stamps.htm (634 words)

	Postage stamp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Because the United Kingdom issued the first stamps the Universal Postal Union (U.P.U.) grants it an exemption from rule that the identification of the issuing must appear on a stamp in roman for use in international mails.
		For instance ATM stamps have been sold automatic teller machines (ATMs) although the may be sold stamp catalogues of the postal service or at philatelic windows.
		In the 1960s certain stamp printers such as the Stamp Company arranged contracts to produce quantities stamps for the separate Emirates and other These abuses combined with the sparse population the desert states earned them the reputation being known as the "sand dune" countries.
	www.freeglossary.com /Postage_stamp (1822 words)

	History and Types of Postage Stamps
		digital stamps that can be printed up on special labels and, unlike previous postage the USPS licensed individuals to print up on their computers, that can be used on any date, not just the date one prints them up.
		United Kingdom test stamps for coil dispensing machines are sometimes known as poached eggs, because of their design.
		The colour of these test stamps was changed from green to fl after 1937 when some test coils were accidentally left in a machine and used as half-penny stamps.
	www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/postage_stamp.htm (1777 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'War on tax' waged against costs of war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Other tax protesters contend that the Constitution's 16th Amendment, which was adopted in 1913 to give Congress the power to collect income taxes, is illegitimate because it was not ratified by the required three-fourths of the states.
		The result of tax protesters and scofflaws who can't afford to pay or cheat on what they owe is a tax gap: the difference between what should be paid and what the IRS collects.
		Later, he wrote that declining to pay taxes is preferable to enabling "the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood." Thoreau went to jail for a night.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-04-13-tax-war_x.htm?csp=34 (1012 words)

	AskPhil -- Stamp Collecting starts here.
		Tax label, compulsory: adhesives that must be applied to mail in addition to normal postage; used to raise money for specific purposes, most famous was the Notopfer label used to help pay the cost of mail-handling during the Berlin blockade in 1948; considered a cinderella.
		overprint on stamps of Hungary by Serbians and Romanians, 1919.
		Tripartite stamps and labels: three part stamp or label used by bus and freight firms divided by perforations; left portion kept by clerk as record of the transaction, center portion is affixed to the parcel, and right hand part is kept by the sender as a receipt.
	www.askphil.org /b25t.htm (9277 words)

	1756-1776: The Seven Years War to the American Revolution
		Stamps had to be purchased with sterling, rather than local paper currency, and the vice-admiralty courts were again expected to enforce the law in place of provincial common law juries.
		During the debate on the Stamp Act in England, Benjamin Franklin informed British officials that, at minimum, the colonies would need to be represented in Parliament if such taxes were to be imposed.
		He secured the repeal of the Stamp Act, but issued a Declaratory Act reaffirming that Parliament "had, hath, and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and vitality to bind the colonies and people of America.
	www.tax.org /museum/1756-1776.htm (3056 words)

	HistoryWiz: The Stamp Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The colonists were outraged by the tax because they saw it as an attempt to raise money in the colonies without the approval of the various legislatures.
		On October 31, 1765 the publishers announced the suspension of the Gazette in opposition to the provisions of the Stamp Act which required that it be printed on imported, stamped paper.
		No stamp commissioner or tax collector was actually tarred and feathered but by November 1, 1765, the day the Stamp Act tax went into effect, there were no stamp commissioners left in the colonies to collect it.
	www.historywiz.com /stampact.htm (513 words)

	\|\|\|\|\|\|\| welcome to XTREME PHILATELY ® by Bruce Baryla \|\|\|\|\|\|\|
		Revenue stamps were required on photographs sold in the U.S. from 1864 to 1866, part of a taxation system to pay for the war against the Confederacy.
		Stamp collectors have continually broadened their interests, going beyond examining the physical characteristics of stamps, and delving into studying the equally rich area of their usage.
		It is clear that many stamp series owe their existence to the concept of taxing store-bought goods, suggesting an area of study analogous to Postal History and encompassing much of what is today considered Revenue History.
	www.pipeline.com /~ciociola/baryla (559 words)

	ipedia.com: Postage stamp Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For instance, ATM stamps have been sold at automatic teller machines (ATMs), although the may be sold via stamp catalogues of the postal service or possibly at philatelic windows.
		Cinderellas might be commemorative labels, such as those issued to support the Transmissippi Exposition in Buffalo, New York (USA) in 1901 (one of these has now been converted into an actual postage stamp), or may be postage stamps for imaginary countries or micronations.
		In the United Kingdom test stamps for coil despencing machines have been known as poached eggs, due to their design.
	www.ipedia.com /postage_stamp_1.html (1792 words)

	The Admiral Stamps of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Unfortunately, with the requirement for a tax levy on postal money orders and postal notes, which began to be enforced on 15 April, confusion reigned both in the public's and in the authorities' understanding of the correct use of the war tax stamps.
		Additionally, the instruction stipulated that only war tax stamps could be used to meet the tax element of the total charge, which was at variance with the more liberal instructions issued with the WAR TAX overprint stamps for use with wine, etc, as previously explained.
		The later release of a stamp that combined the 2 + 1c postage and tax rates partly alleviated the problem, particularly in the case of the basic first class forward domestic rate, for which the one cent tax imposition was per mailed item and was not increased for items in excess of single weight.
	www.rpsc.org /Library/admiral/wartax.htm (574 words)

	Stamp Tax Passed
		Not only did these taxes hurt their pocketbooks, but they were highly visible (i.e.
		On the day the Stamp Tax was supposed to go into effect all of the stamp commissioners were forced to resign.
		In 1766, the British parliament repealed the Stamp Taxand#208; as it caused British merchants to suffer greatly from the effects of the embargo and was found to be unenforceable.
	www.multied.com /revolt/stamptax2.html (291 words)

	A Tax Stamp
		The stated objective of the Stamp Act was to reduce the burden of administering the colonies by taxing trade and certain commodities to develop a self-supporting colonial regime.
		The royalist argument was that the policies of crown and parliament in America had favored business interests to such an extent that all trade in the colonies had been heavily subsidized by the British treasury.
		Taxes collected under the provisions of the Stamp Act were to be applied exclusively to treasuries in America, and used only for the administration of the colonies.
	www.ushistory.org /declaration/related/atstamp.htm (300 words)

	Tax Stamps - Picture - MSN Encarta
		The British had accumulated large war debts during the French and Indian War, and, as a result, Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765.
		The act was intended to generate revenues that would help pay for part of the cost of maintaining a permanent force of British troops in the American colonies.
		All official documents, including deeds, mortgages, newspapers, and pamphlets, had to bear British government stamps in order to be deemed legal.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461555318_761575603_-1_1/tax_stamps.html (92 words)

	British Empire War Tax Stamps -
		The "War Tax" stamps were issued by various entities within the British Empire during World War I (and in the case of North Borneo, during World War II) to help fund the war effort.
		The War Tax Acts in most colonies and countries stated that the War Tax stamps were to be used in addition to whatever postage and registration fees were due on the item being mailed (postcards, letters and parcels in some cases).
		While the stamps were supposed to be used just to pay for the War Tax, many times they were also used to pay part of the postage and registration fees (as long as the total amount with the war tax was correct, it appears that most countries did not seem to mind).
	www.freewebs.com /wartaxstamps (277 words)

	AskPhil -- Stamp Collecting starts here.
		Vacation stamps: postpaid tourist labels for use of Swedish nationals to be applied to postcards at vacation locals for delivery anywhere in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, a cooperative effort of tour operators and the Swedish post office; used from Dec. 13, 1994 to late 1998.
		VAT: Value Added Tax; tax payable on hammer price and the Buyer's Premium for auction lots bought from auctioneers living within the countries being members of the European Union (EU); VAT is not payable for lots delivered to addresses outside the EU community.
		Void, Voided: 1: handstamp applied on postage due stamps in order for a carrier to receive credit for the stamps when the carrier was unable to deliver a mailpiece to which postage due stamps had already been affixed.
	www.askphil.org /b25v.htm (4231 words)

	MARIJUANA TAX STAMPS
		In 1937 it was classified as a controlled substance and had occupational and trade taxes imposed upon it.
		The laws do not legalize marijuana and tax stamps are rarely found on actual marijuana.
		Officially never issued for use these stamps were generated in response to marijuana's classification as a narcotic in 1937.
	www.marijuanastamps.com (299 words)

	The Stamp Act - 1765
		Before the actual war of the Revolution could begin, there had to be a revolution "in the minds and hearts of the people," as John Adams put it.
		Resistance to the statute took the form of petitions to the king and Parliament, a boycott of British goods, the refusal of lawyers or printers to use stamps or stamped paper, and violence sparked by the Sons Of Liberty.
		Strongly protested and resisted, the Stamp Act was recognized as unenforceable and was repealed on March 18, 1766.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/STAMP.HTM (423 words)

	IRS Seizure & Court Actions Against War Tax Resisters
		n the modern war tax resistance movement (since World War II), very few people have been brought into Federal court, convicted, or jailed because of their war tax resistance.
		In fact, only one war tax resister — James Otsuka in 1949 — was ever charged with not paying taxes.
		All of these resisters argued their opposition to paying for war and the military based on moral, religious, or political grounds, or on international law; in addition some pled the Fifth or First Amendment.
	www.warresisters.org /convicted_wtr.htm (631 words)

	Postage Stamp Information
		IMPTO DE GUERRA overprinted on stamps of Spanish Colonies
		IMPUESTO DE GUERRA overprinted on stamps of Spanish Colonies
		IN BRITISH OCCUPATION and BAGHDAD overprinted on stamps of Turkey
	postage.20m.com /0001500.htm (183 words)

	Convicted War Tax Resisters
		This list was composed to counteract the illusion that if you resist taxes to oppose war, you go to jail.
		In the modern war tax resistance movement (since World War II), very few people have been brought into Federal court, convicted, or jailed because of their war tax resistance.
		Because some of this information is incomplete or may be in error, please contact me at hedemann@compuserve.com if you have any additions or corrections.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/hedemann/convicted_wtr.htm (218 words)

	George W. Bush's War Stamp Tax
		The commission has now indicated it wants to raise the price of a first class stamp by three cents to 42 cents next year.
		The reason for the Bush stamp tax is that when the Bush administration took power in 2001, the Postal Service Fund, a special account established within the Treasury Department, had a substantial surplus.
		In addition to the Postal Service Fund, the misappropriation of money for the war has also adversely affected the Postal Employees' Compensation Fund, the solvency for which is guaranteed by the Postal Service Fund.
	onlinejournal.com /artman/publish/article_779.shtml (512 words)

	Revolutionary War
		Which Act taxed almost everything written or printed on paper?
		Which battle was the turning point in the war for the Americans?
		Which battle in which the colonies were victorious over Lord Cornwallis marked the end of the Revolutionary War?
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /McNairES/revwarmatching.htm (125 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)