Company Law : The article explains that stamp duty on securities is calculated based on consideration under the amended Indian Stamp Act. Since ...
Corporate Law : Stamp duty on indemnity bonds is not uniform across India because each state follows its own stamp legislation and amendments. The...
Corporate Law : The analysis highlights Delhi’s 2025 circular requiring 0.1% stamp duty on both physical and demat share issuances. Companies re...
Corporate Law : A comprehensive guide to LLP Agreement stamp duty across all Indian states and UTs. Learn applicable rates, filing requirements, p...
Corporate Law : The Delhi Government Circular dated 29 July 2025 clarifies that stamp duty on the issuance of shares by companies having registere...
Corporate Law : Maharashtra's new ordinance raises stamp duties, setting minimum rates at Rs 500 and increasing charges on key documents like Arti...
Corporate Law : Yourself was kind enough in giving concessions up to 30.04.2021, for registration of docs, on which stamp duty is paid on or befor...
Goods and Services Tax : Concession in Stamp Duty by 1 percent over the prevailing rate exclusively to Women, provided the transfer of house property or re...
Corporate Law : Government broadens pertinence of stamp duty by 3 months from 1st April 2020 to 1st July 2020 The administration has not broadened...
Finance : Paying stamp duty while purchasing or transferring a property is often a long-drawn process. You need to go to the registrar's off...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that the tax authorities failed to consider evidence of an earlier agreement and prior payments before invokin...
Income Tax : ITAT Delhi ruled that where an assessee disputes the stamp duty valuation under Section 50C, the Assessing Officer should refer th...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that property payments were properly explained with bank records and affidavits. Additions under Section 69 fo...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held allotment letter is an agreement to sell; stamp duty value on booking/allotment date applies u/s 56(2)(x) where p...
Income Tax : ITAT Mumbai held stamp duty value on allotment date applies u/s 56(2)(x) where full payment was made by cheque before agreement, n...
Corporate Law : Maharashtra's new ordinance raises stamp duties, setting minimum rates at Rs 500 and increasing charges on key documents like Arti...
Corporate Law : Introduction: The Revenue and Forests Department of Maharashtra has introduced the Maharashtra Stamp Duty Amnesty Scheme-2023 to r...
Corporate Law : The enterprises making new investment or investment for expansion under the scheme, as the case may be, for reimbursement of 25% o...
Corporate Law : Delhi Govt notifies the extension of relaxation of 20% in the minimum rates (Circle rates) till 30.06.2022 for valuation of lands ...
Corporate Law : Government of Maharashtra reduces the stamp duty by 1% on Agreement to Sell / Conveyance of residential property executed in favou...
The Madras High Court has held that an instrument, whether a certificate of sale or sale deed, issued in a public auction of properties, was chargeable with stamp duty under Article 18 read with Article 23 of Schedule I to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899.
Thus, for the benefit of all the Public Charitable and Religious Trusts, Trustee & all such Trusts should jointly make a petition before Law Minister, Law and Judiciary Department Sachivalaya, Maharashtra to amend this and other similar provisions in such a way that the approval should be granted/rejected within 3/4 months on the lines of Chapter XXC of the IT. Act, 1961.
The Law Commission is in favour of amending the country’s archaic Indian Stamp Act 1899 and the Court-fees Act 1870, which entail payment of stamp duty on instruments and court-fee on documents to be filed in courts only in the form of adhesive stamps or stamped papers.Taking up the obsolete statutes suo motu for a thorough study, the Law Commission headed by Dr Justice A.R. Lakshmanan in its latest report tabled in Parliament, said in the recent past there have been scandals on stamp papers.
Mumbai: Revenue department has approved a proposal to levy a flat 1% charge on property registrations with immediate effect, doing away with the Rs30,000 ceiling. Revenue minister Narayan Rane lifted a stay on an earlier order of the government. The decision on the 1% property registration fee was taken by then revenue minister Patangrao Kadam early this year but was stayed ahead of elections.
Come September, the incorporation of companies or various regulatory filings will not be a cumbersome and time-taking exercise anymore. The government is going to start e-stamp facility that would allow corporates to deposit stamp duty electronically. From September 12, stamp duty for various instruments including Memorandum of Association, Article of Association (or incorporation of a […]
The Explanation to the definition provides that any instrument by which one co-owner transfers his property to another co-owner would be deemed to be a conveyance provided that it is not an instrument of partition.
Section 57 read with Third Schedule of the SEZ Act, 2005, has amended the provisions of Indian Stamp Act, 1899 so that no duty shall be chargeable in respect of any instrument executed by or on behalf of or in favour of the Developer or Unit or in connection with the carrying out of purposes of the […]
