Revenue stamp

Revenue stamp

A revenue stamp, tax stamp or fiscal stamp is a adhesive label used to collect taxes or fees on documents, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, drugs and medicines, playing cards, hunting licenses, firearm registration, and many other things...

s have been in use in the United States since colonial times and continue to be issued today.

First stamps

The first revenue stamps used in the America were British colonial issues. Independently produced revenue stamps were first issued in September 1862 illustrating a portrait of George Washington on all thirty denomination

Denomination (postage stamp)

:This article deals with the price of a postage stamp. For other meanings of the word 'denomination' see Denomination .In philately, the denomination is the "inscribed value of a stamp"...

s from one-cent to $200.

State revenues

As well as Federal revenue stamps, a wide range of state revenues have been issued for all purposes from sales tax to duck hunting permits.

External links

• An overview of Scott listed United States revenue stamps.
• American Revenue Association
• The State Revenue Society