e-Stamp Certificates in Vadodara

e-Stamp

What an e-stamp certificate is

Stamp duty is a tax on instruments, levied in this State under the Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958. It has always had to be paid before or at the time of execution, and the only question over the years has been the mechanism of payment. Non-judicial stamp paper was one mechanism. Franking was another. e-Stamping is the current one, and it is the only one where the payment leaves a record that can be verified by a stranger in a few seconds.

The certificate is printed against a unique certificate number and records the amount of duty, the date, the description of the instrument, the parties and the person who paid. It becomes the first page of your document, and the document is written or attached to it.

Why we do not publish duty figures

Because the Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958 was amended in 2025, and a number left on a web page does not update itself. An out-of-date figure is not a harmless inaccuracy: it produces an insufficiently stamped instrument, and an insufficiently stamped instrument causes trouble at exactly the moment somebody needs to rely on it — in a court, at a bank, at a Sub-Registrar's counter.

So the policy here is simple. We confirm the current figure at the counter, for your document, on the day. Bring the details and we will tell you what it is before you pay anything. How the figure is arrived at is explained at how stamp duty is calculated.

What you get, and how to read it

• Certificate number — unique, and the thing to note down. See verifying an e-stamp certificate.
• Date of issue and the amount of duty paid.
• Description of the document — the article of the Schedule the instrument falls under. This must match what you actually execute.
• First party, second party and stamp duty payer — names, spelt as they appear on identity documents.
• Consideration or property value, where the duty is ad valorem.

Check the names and the description before you leave the counter. A certificate issued in the wrong name or against the wrong article is a certificate that will be argued about later, and it is a two-minute fix on the day.

What is stamped here every day

Affidavits of every description; rent and leave-and-licence agreements; indemnity bonds for banks and companies; powers of attorney; partnership deeds and retirement deeds; loan and security documents; sale agreements and banakhat; gift, release and partition deeds; and the conveyances that go on to the Sub-Registrar. The full catalogue is at our documents index.

Stamping is not registration, and it is not notarisation

Three separate things that get run together in conversation. Stamping is paying a tax under the Gujarat Stamp Act, 1958. Notarisation is a notarial act under the Notaries Act, 1952, done under signature and official seal. Registration is a filing at the Sub-Registrar under the Registration Act, 1908, and for some instruments it is compulsory — section 17(1) catches instruments creating or extinguishing a right or interest of one hundred rupees or more in immovable property, and section 49 bars an unregistered compulsorily-registrable document from being received as evidence of the transaction. A fully paid e-stamp certificate does not register anything. See notarised vs registered.

Timing

Duty is payable before or at the time of execution. That single rule decides the order of your day: come to us before the signing, not after it. Where the parties are assembling at a house or an office, we can issue the certificate here and the Notary attends the address — see notary home visit.

What to bring

• Names of all parties, spelt exactly as on their identity documents
• Aadhaar or PAN of the person paying the duty
• The type of document you are executing, described accurately
• Consideration amount, rent, loan amount or property details where duty is value-based
• Property papers or Index-2 where the instrument concerns immovable property
• How many executed sets you need — decided before, not after, stamping

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