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Regn.No. KERBIL/2012/45073 dated 05-09-2012 with RNI Reg No.KL/TV(N)/634/2021-2023 മകരള സർകാർ Government of Kerala 2025
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KERALA GAZETTE
അസാധാരണം
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2025 ഡിസംബർ 18 18th December 2025
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No. 4259 വാലം 14 Vol. XIV
1201 ധനു 3 3rd Dhanu 1201 Thiruvananthapuram, Thursday
1947 അ്ഗഹായനം 27
27th Agrahayana 1947
GOVERNMENT OF KERALA
Taxes (J) Department
ORDER
G.O.(P)No.201/2025/TAXES. Dated, Thiruvananthapuram, 17th December , 2025
2nd Dhanu, 1201
S. R. O. No. 1379/2025
WHEREAS, as per notification issued under G.O. (P)No.56/2022/TAXES dated 30th May, 2022 published as S.R.O.No. 534/2022 in the Kerala Gazette Extra ordinary No. 1771 dated 30th May, 2022 the Government of Kerala have exempted the stamp duty for the registration of the instrument of conveyance (gift deed) of a total of 160 cents of land in Resurvey No.301/1 and 301/3 in Block No.76 of Koottikkal Village in Kanjirapally Taluk in Kottayam District, in favour of 32 beneficiaries who will
2 get 5 cents each, as part of rehabilitation of 32 families of Koottikkal and Mundakkayam Panchayaths of Kottayam District, who lost their houses during the flood in October, 2021.AND WHEREAS, subsequently it has come to the notice of the Government that the documents could not be registered at the time when this relaxation was granted. Currently, 2 acres and 10 cents of land have been purchased in the 11th ward of Koottikkal Grama Panchayat, Koottikkal village, where houses have been provided free of cost in favour of 25 beneficiaries. Each beneficiary has been allotted between 3.5 cents and 7 cents of land and exemption from payment of stamp duty for the registration of the aforementioned documents are required.
AND WHEREAS, the Government have considered the matter once again and decided to grant exemption from stamp duty under the Kerala Stamp Act 1959 (17 of 1959) by superseding the above said order;
NOW THEREFORE, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) sub-section (1) of section 9 of the Kerala Stamp Act, 1959 (17 of 1959), and in supersession of G.O.(P)No.56/2022/TAXES dated 30th May, 2022 published as S.R.O.No. 534/2022 in the Kerala Gazette Extra ordinary No. 1771 dated 30th May, 2022, the Government of Kerala, is of the opinion that, it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby remit the stamp duty chargeable under the said Act for the registration of the instrument of conveyance of 40.6 Ares of land in Resurvey Nos. 301/1 and 301/3 within Re survey block No. 76 of Koottikkal Revenue Village in Kanjirapalli Taluk in Kottayam District being transferred free of cost in favour of 25 beneficiaries who lost their houses during the flood in Koottikkal in October 2021, on condition that each beneficiary shall get a maximum of 7 cents of land comprising of a house.
By order of the Governor, K R JYOTHILAL Additional Chief Secretary to Government
Explanatory Note
(This does not form part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general purport.)
The Government have notified G.O.(P)No.56/2022/TAXES dated 30th May, 2022 published as S.R.O.No. 534/2022 in the Kerala Gazette Extra ordinary No. 1771 dated 30 th May, 2022 exempting stamp duty for the registration of the instrument of conveyance in favour of 32 beneficiaries who will
3 get 5 cents each, as part of rehabilitation of 32 families of Koottikkal and Mundakkayam Panchayaths of Kottayam District, who lost their houses during the flood in October, 2021. Subsequently, thedocuments could not be registered at the time when this relaxation was granted. Now, the registration of the instrument of conveyance is to be made being transferred free of cost in favour of 25 beneficiaries who lost their houses during the flood in Koottikkal in October 2021, on condition that each beneficiary shall get a maximum of 7 cents of land comprising of a house. In order to give effect to the intention of the Government, the Government have decided to issue an order in supersession of the above said order.
The order is intended to achieve the above object.
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