Other War Tax Issues
Though many countries (e.g., Australia) imposed taxes on mail during World War II, regular stamps were used to pay those taxes. One exception was North Borneo, which issued two war tax stamps in February 1941. These were produced by overprinting "WAR TAX" on the 1 and 2 cent values of a 1939 set of regular stamps.
War tax stamps were issued by Bahrain in 1973 and 1974, with a denomination of 5 fils.
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