Property Tax Name Change Application (Namantaran)

Stamp duty

The application itself is NOT chargeable — no stamp duty, no court-fee stamp, in Punjab or Chandigarh. Duty arises ONLY on the affidavit-cum-indemnity bond many offices want: Article 4 (Affidavit) + Article 34 (Indemnity bond, Article 57's duty), Schedule I-A — both nominal fixed sums, absent from either official table, so buy the smallest denomination the vendor issues and confirm with the vendor or Sub-Registrar (Chandigarh: 30 Bays Building) first. Overpaying is harmless; underpaying gets it impounded (s.33). Buy in the APPLICANT'S name, never the seller's, even via attorney. Buying differs: Punjab has working e-stamping (igrpunjab.gov.in, tehsil vendors); Chandigarh's e-Sampark is bulk-only for banks with a Rs 500 citizen cap online — above that, a vendor to Rs 50,000, then the Central Treasury (challan, SBI Sector 17). The real duty was on the DEED behind this. Punjab sale/gift: 5% + 1% cess + 1% PIDB = 7%, on the higher of consideration/Collector rate; 1% registration (capped Rs 2,00,000); Rs 1,000-5,000 facilitation tiers; Rs 600 mutation + Rs 200 pasting fees. Chandigarh sale/gift/conveyance: 5% on the higher of value/consideration; 1% registration (capped Rs 10,000) + Rs 20 pasting (Administration table, 17 May 2020, still live) — portals wrongly say 6%; confirm at 30 Bays Building. Chandigarh exempts blood-relation transfers from duty (fee still applies). Neither table gives a gender concession.

Registration

Not registrable — a statutory NOTICE, not a transfer instrument, so s.17 doesn't reach it; the office looks instead for the registration endorsement on the DEED behind it. Punjab: Sub-Registrar/Joint SR of the tehsil via NGDRS (igrpunjab.gov.in), e-stamp auto-locked at registration. Chandigarh: Sub-Registrar, 30 Bays Building, Rooms 1&2, Sector 17 — presented noon-1pm, registered 3-5pm; a freehold sale/transfer/gift/exchange deed in triplicate, others duplicate. An inheritance transfer has no registrable instrument — the death certificate and succession proof do the work. Two Chandigarh points: an Estate Office plot/house/SCO auto-mutates since 2025 (SMS, no application); a CHB flat does NOT — a joint Regulation 16 application after the 5-year lock-in and cleared dues. Neither is the Corporation's record, which changes only via THIS filing, while the 1976 Act's daily fine runs. You get a diary/inward number, then an order/endorsement — never a registration number.

Notarisation

The application isn't notarised — just a signed verification. The affidavit-cum-indemnity bond IS sworn where asked — before a Notary or Oath Commissioner, who signs, dates, stamps and registers it. Notarised affidavits are now the NORM both sides of the border: Chandigarh's Estate Office and the Municipal Corporation both accept one in place of an Executive Magistrate's except where specifically required otherwise. An attorney signing for an owner swears the bond IN THAT CAPACITY — the preamble says so, the DEPONENT line reads "[name], attorney of the owner", and the original power of attorney goes to the notary. Leave the bond's place/date blank until the day you swear it. Some offices accept a self-attested declaration instead for low-value residential — ask, in writing.

Witnesses

NONE on the application — a public-office filing, not attested; signature blocks are for the applicant, any joint owner, and (where willing) the transferor, limited to s.105(1)'s notice. The affidavit-cum-indemnity bond is different — where the format has witness lines, two adult witnesses sign with name/address, not parties, heirs or the notary. Don't confuse this with the DEED's rule: Chandigarh deed registration needs two witnesses, the first qualifying under para 127, Punjab Registration Manual, both known to each other and the first to the Sub-Registrar — that's the deed's rule, not this tax filing's. In a succession case, other heirs' NOCs are separate notarised enclosures, not witness signatures.