Stamp duty on General Power of Attorney (GPA) based documents has been reduced by state government to 6 per cent. An ordinance promulgated on June 4, Stamp duty for GPA-based document was reduced along with cut down in stamp duty for first sale of apartments.
Union government has asked state government to reduce stamp duty to bring uniformity across the country. The buyers will have to pay stamp duty 6 per cent and 10 per cent cess on stamp duty and depending on the place of transaction additional duty on stamp duty and a surcharge will be imposed. A stamp duty of 6.72 to 6.78 per cent will be levied on transaction which includes surcharge, additional duty and infrastructure cess.
Reduction on stamp duty for GPA-executed sales deed will benefit to property buyers in urban area when comparing with rural area property buyers. Normally transaction of GPA-executed sales deed is found in urban areas such as Bangalore, Mangalore, Mysore and other urban areas. In urban areas GPA executed sales deed could amount 5 per cent of total transaction and it is around 1 per cent in rural areas.
If the transaction is in corporation limit, surcharge and additional duty of 2 per cent on stamp duty will be levied on transaction and the transaction in gram panchayat limit such transaction will levy 3 per cent on stamp duty.
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Stamp duty cut on sale deed executed by GPA
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Is this applicable for other states? Delhi?
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