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Revenue. Malaysia issued its first general duty revenue stamps in 1975, inscribed Hasil Malaysia (Revenue Malaysia) and depicting the country's coat of arms. Three values of $25, $100 and $250 were issued. In 1982, the coat of arms was changed slightly so the set was reissued with the new version. This time $500 and $1000 values were added.
The history of postage stamps and postal history of Malaysia, a state in Southeast Asia that occupies the south of the Malay Peninsula and Sarawak and Sabah in the north Borneo, includes the development of postal services in these periods: [1] independence of the state (since 1957).
The first stamp in Sarawak was issued in 1869, featuring the portrait of James Brooke with facial value of three cents. A $1 revenue stamp issued in 1918 featuring the portrait of Charles Vyner Brooke. The Brooke government first issued postage rules on 1 March 1869, after the death of James Brooke. The rules stated that one stamp should be affixed for all letters below half an ounce in weight ...
Service was regularised by the Indian Post Office Act of 1837, by which the East India Company was granted a monopoly of the mail services. All private vessels were required to carry letters at prescribed rates for postage. [2] Handstamps were applied to preadhesive ship letters. Postage stamps of India were used from 1854, the Settlements being considered part of the "Bengal circle", then ...
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This overprint was applied to pre-war dual-purpose or revenue-only stamps of Selangor itself, as well as to pre-war dual-purpose stamps of the Straits Settlements and various other states, pre-war revenue stamps of the Federated Malay States and various other states, and to postage stamps issued during the Japanese occupation (themselves ...
A revenue stamp, tax stamp, duty stamp or fiscal stamp is a (usually) adhesive label used to designate collected taxes or fees on documents, tobacco, alcoholic drinks, drugs and medicines, playing cards, hunting licenses, firearm registration, and many other things.
Formerly called the Federation of Malaya until 1963, Malaysia started to issue stamps under the current name starting in 1963.