How we check our facts

Where our figures come from

We use official sources, and we say which.

• Punjab Revenue Departmentrevenue.punjab.gov.inThe published stamp duty and registration fee tables, and the notifications of the Stamp and Registration Branch. Every Punjab figure, including Mohali, starts here.
• Chandigarh Administration, Revenuerevenue.chd.gov.inThe published registration fee table and stamp duty rates. Every Chandigarh figure starts here.
• The Gazetteegazette.gov.inThe Gazette of India, and the Punjab Government Gazette as the department publishes it. We read the text of an amendment or a notification here, for example the Indian Stamp (Punjab Amendment) Act, 2019.
• India Codeindiacode.nic.inThe text of central Acts such as the Registration Act, 1908 and the Transfer of Property Act, 1882. India Code can still print an older version of an Act, so for a recent amendment we read the Gazette as well.
• Department of Revenue, Government of Indiador.gov.inThe Indian Stamp Act, 1899, the central Act behind stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh.
• The Sub-Registrar's counterWhere a published table is unclear, we ask at the Sub-Registrar's office. The Chandigarh 3% charge on a security deposit, for example, was confirmed at the Sub-Registrar's office in SAS Nagar (Mohali) in September 2026.
• The office that issues each formThe 152 official forms on our Downloads page are each the issuing office's own file, unchanged. The page for each form names the office that issues it and where it is published.

A figure comes from the department that publishes it. A news report, another website or a summary is not our source for a figure.

How we check a figure

1. We start from the official source: the department's own table, the notification in the Gazette, or the Act itself.
2. We note the source and the day we checked it. The stamp and registration boxes we have written by hand show both.
3. Where the department's own documents disagree with each other, or with the Gazette, we do not pick one quietly. We note the conflict and tell you to confirm at the counter.
4. Where we cannot confirm a figure, we do not print a guess. On a document page it shows "Ask us".
5. A draft Bill is not law. We treat a change as law only once it is in force. The Registration Bill, 2025 and the Indian Stamp Bill, 2023, for example, were released as drafts for comment and had not been introduced in Parliament when we last checked, in August 2026.
6. The department's own counter has the last word on the day. For a large amount, confirm the figure there before you pay.

How often we re-check

We re-check a figure when an official notice changes it, when a reader tells us of a difference, and regularly in between. We date each figure as we check it.

What "Checked on" means

A date next to a figure, such as "checked 6 September 2026", is the day we last compared that figure with its official source and found it as stated. It is not the day the law changed, and it does not promise that nothing has changed since. If a date looks old to you, ask us before you rely on the figure. A figure with no date has not been dated yet; we add the date when we next check it.

Update log

The changes that mattered to a reader, newest first. We add a line here whenever a figure, a rule or a service wording changes.

What we do not do

Our pages are information and drafts, not legal advice, and we are not a law firm. For advice on your own papers, choose your own advocate.

Report an error

Found a figure that looks wrong, or a page that disagrees with an official table? Email us with the page address, the figure, and a link to the official source if you have one. We look at each report, and when a figure changes we add a line to the log above.