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The first Trinidad revenue was issued in 1887 and consisted of a 1d postage stamp of 1883 overprinted FEE. Other values were prepared but none were issued, since later that year a new set with values from ½d to 5s was issued. A year later 10s and £1 values were added to this series (by surcharging 5s stamps).
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago . Trinidad and Tobago lies northeast of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Trinidad and Tobago was a Spanish colony from the times of Christopher Columbus to 1802, when it was ceded to Britain. The country obtained independence in 1962.
The first war tax stamps were produced in 1874 in Spain, during the Third Carlist War.A decree of October 2, 1873, imposed a war tax on letters and stamped documents. The stamps were issued on January 1, 1874, in two denominations, 5 centimos and 10 centimos, and depicted the Spanish coat of arms along with the inscription "Impuesto de Guerra" or "Impto de Guerra".
233 Railway Rates Tribunal. ... 258.5 Stamp Duty Duly Stamped. ... Trinidad and Tobago, 1908-1964 - Revenue stamps of Trinidad and Tobago;
As announced in 2012, each code would be a six-digit number, with the first two digits indicating one of 72 postal districts (64 in Trinidad, eight in Tobago). [1] It was piloted in Point Fortin in 2013 [2] and later tested in four other Trinidad communities, as well as the island of Tobago. It is now launched as of 2021 throughout all of the ...
TTPost.net. TTPost is the Trinidad and Tobago postal corporation, responsible for the postal services in Trinidad and Tobago. The company was formed in 1999, with a New Zealand operation taking over the previous government-run service. TTPost provides postal services including registered mail, courier services, package tracking and express mail ...
Stamp duty was formerly a graduated progressive tax with more expensive the house bought the greater the stamp duty rate. The top rate slowly increased from 0.5% in 1882 to 3% in 1947, 5% in 1973, 6% in 1975, reaching its peak at 9% in 1997. [7]
Outlook: Stable. Foreign reserves. $6.75 billion (Jan 2022 est.) [16] All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars. The economy of Trinidad and Tobago is the third wealthiest in the Caribbean and the fifth-richest by GDP (PPP) per capita in the Americas. [17] Trinidad and Tobago is recognised as a high-income economy by the World Bank.