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Paying stamp duty on share transfers

Paying stamp duty on share transfers

Stamp Duty is paid on shares bought on a stock transfer form. A stock transfer form is the standard form used for transfers of shares from one person to another. If you use a stock transfer to buy stocks and shares for £1,000 or less, you do not normally have to...
Stamping documents goes digital

Stamping documents goes digital

HMRC has confirmed that the 300-year-old process used to manually stamp documents to show the duty has been paid will officially come to an end on 19 July 2021.  A new electronic process was introduced during the pandemic as traditional physical stamping could...