“From what I can find, the taxes that were to be levied via the required tax stamps were inconsequential...”
What brought you to that conclusion? Everything I’ve read has quite the opposite conclusion.
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It was levied on paper used for official documents. If you bought or sold anything needing paperwork to complete, it required a tax. Real Estate, imports, exports...
But it was much more...there were several acts in addition to the stamp act that during those times resulted in unrest...
One example, certain imports had to pass through England, or pay fees to England to be sold or purchased in the colonies, such as tea.
Why could the colonists sell their goods wehereever they wanted?
It is if avery sale overseas had to pay governor Shwartzenegger a tax of a certain percentage, even if you were from New York. They paid this tax to the King, even to buy rum from Jamaica, if they were being legal about it.