The fiscophilie, an ignored branch of philately

What the fiscophilie?

Cousin of the philately and the rare stamp collection, the fiscophilie is art to collect the revenue stamps. As for the collectors of revenue stamps, they are called fiscophilists. They are signs making it possible to prove that the payment of a tax was indeed carried out with a community. When these revenue stamps did appear and in which form?

What a revenue stamp?

One managed can buy a revenue stamp and discharge a tax for various reasons: inscription with a contest, realization of a passport or an identity card, requires of a new driving license, etc a revenue stamp is different from a postal stamp which shows that the stamping from a mail was paid. However, one can make a bringing together between the revenue stamp and the socio-postal stamp: this last shows that a social contribution was indeed regulated by an employee with his employer.
 The revenue stamp is presented in two forms, namely the stamped paper, also called tax entirety, and the mobile revenue stamp which appeared afterwards.

History of the revenue stamp

The revenue stamp was the first stamp to come out. It is necessary to go back to the Former regime to understand its origins. More precisely, it is in 1626 that revenue stamps start to be used in the United Provinces (current Netherlands). About ten years later, these marks are exported in Spain. At that time, the revenue stamps were already used to discharge taxation of various documents such as the contracts or the judgments. Once paid, the revenue stamps were directly affixed on these documents or their copies. When the revenue stamps did appear in France? It is under the reign of Louis XIV, in 1674, that the excise tax is set up in the country. The stamped paper is even made compulsory for administrative formalities such as the realization of an act of civil status appearing in the parochial registers. Until 1791, year of appearance of the standard models, each general information was free to emit its own revenue stamps. However, those obligatorily to comprise one of the symbols of the royalty, namely it crowns it, the flower of lily, etc That in were it is mobile revenue stamp? This one appeared in France in the years 1860, about twenty years after the birth of the postage stamp. There exist a multiplicity of sectoral mobile revenue stamps: stamps of, stamp hunting permit of postal parcels, stamp of tickets of spectacle, etc

What collects the fiscophilists?

Also called tax philatelists, the fiscophilists are specialized in the tax stamp collection. Closely related to the another country or French history, this activity can take various forms and does not answer any strict rule. Each fiscophilist is free to seek stamped papers or mobile revenue stamps (or both!).
The collectors of tax entireties can seek stamped papers according to the discharged amount, the support used (identity card, hunting permit, passport, accounts - checks…), one precise period (2rd Republic, 3rd Republic…). As for the collectors of revenue stamps mobile, they can also concentrate on a country, one period, a topic, a support, a tariff, etc

Our councils to begin and succeed in fiscophilie

After our article on how to begin a our council, stamp collection well here for beginning a tax stamp collection well.
As for any beginning of collection, it is highly advised to show organization to launch out in tax philately. That you preferred to collect the tax entireties or the mobile revenue stamps, think of arranging all your acquisitions progressively. Your collection will be protected and you will save time. Specific sorters or albums will be useful for you, just as a magnifying glass and a grip with stamps.