Tax stamps.

 

These stamps depict a leopard on a blue background with bushes in white.

Left top corner “T.C.A.” = Taxe sur le Chiffres d'Affaires (Turnover tax).

Right tops the value. Underneath “R.D.C.” = Republic Democratique  du Congo.

On bottom there will be two letters with 5 numbers. The vignette was used to attach to the receipt document.

 

Date of issue: 1968?

Design:

Printing:

Paper with watermark “TA 66”

Perforation: 14 (left side never, see scan)

Size stamp with vignette: 58.7 x 28.7 mm.

Sheet:

Marginal inscriptions:? (left bottom corner with sheet number)

Circulation:

 

Values:

10 K

20 K (sorry, is used example)

30 K

200 K

1000 K

5000 K

Note: Most probably there are more values

 

Example of an official document with tax stamp (coll. Kurt C.)