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Taken from Samuel Adam's Rights of the Colonists:

"The supreme power cannot justly take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person or by his representative."

https://history.hanover.edu/texts/adamss.html

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Taken from Benjamin Franklin's Preface
to the English Edition of the Report:

"The mistaken policy of the Stamp Act first disturbed this happy situation; but the flame thereby raised was soon extinguished by its repeal, and the old harmony restored, with all its concomitant advantage to our commerce"
https://history.hanover.edu/texts/adamss.html

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An excerpt from the Stamp Act states that "for every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, on which shall be ingrossed, written, or printed, any licence, appointment, or admission, a stamp duty of ten pounds."  An account of the colonist's reaction to the Stamp Act states that the colonists "threatened to pull down & burn the Stamp Office...and that they held every man as Infamous that shall presume to carry the Stamp Act into Execution." https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/road-revolution/resources/stamp-act-1765
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/road-revolution/resources/report-reaction-stamp-act-1765

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This act, passed in 1765 by the Parliament, imposed a tax on each piece of paper that every colonist used. This includes "ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards". This money was collected by the British to help pay off all the expenses of the French and Indian War. The actual money the colonists had to pay was not problematic, but they were more offended by the intentions of the Stamp Act. It was passed by the British Parliament without the approval of the legislature in the colonies. No tax before was used to raise money. Taxes were originally viewed as a measure to "regulate commerce".
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm

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Excerpt from the Stamp Acts:

An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expences of defending, protecting, and securing the same; and for amending such parts of the several acts of parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the said colonies and plantations, as direct the manner of determining and recovering the penalties and forfeitures therein mentioned.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/stamp_act_1765.asp