Sentence examples for stamp of land from inspiring English sources

-- the "postage stamp" of land he famously transformed, in 15 novels and numerous short stories, into Yoknapatawpha County, "William Faulkner, Sole Owner & Proprietor".

And so I bought a cabin instead, on a postage stamp of land on the Delaware River.

The water tower, which sits on a postage stamp of land near the square, was built by the Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel Company with money from a bond the town issued in 1925.

New houses are thrown up wherever developers can find a postage stamp of land to build them on; and they do it with scant regard for neighbourhoods' wider needs.

"Have you seen it?" "No, but I heard it's" "It is," I interrupted, "the size of a giant movie screen!" As town officials reinterpret laws and ignore common sense, as developers view postage-stamp parcels of land through the lens of opportunity, and as the visual reminders of suburban growth and squeeze erode our quality of life, we must take action.

Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies thinktank, added: "A £3bn tax on the payrolls of companies with pay bills over £3m is substantial, as is an increase in stamp duty land tax of nearly £1m on second homes and buy-to-let properties.

A UK government source said: "The government has responded to industry concerns about proposed devolution of SDLT (Stamp Duty Land Tax) by consulting further.

JS A I think I may have some good news for you, along with some (not very) light reading for those solicitors you have been talking to, in the form of HM Revenue & Customs HMRCC) Guidance Notes "Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT): higher rates for purchases of additional residential properties" published in March 2016.

"Also, do not forget that the cost of the property for CGT purposes will include costs of acquisition, such as legal expenses and stamp duty land tax, and also the cost of any capital improvements to the property.

In modern times, it sometimes seems as if all conflicts are inherited, passed from generation to generation not to achieve war's traditional aims -- access to minerals, oil, territory -- but simply to determine what identity is stamped on parcels of land, the crucible of conflicts defined by long histories.

Would our daughter be liable to pay stamp duty land tax on the mortgage amount of £106,620 or the valuation price of £250,000?