Methods of Stamping

You may use the 24 hours e-Stamping service to submit electronic stamping applications for:

• Initial stamping of agreement or assignment with not more than 4 Purchasers and / or 20 vendors ;
• Payment of deferred stamp duty;
• Subsequent agreement or assignment;
• Tenancy agreement with not more than 4 landlords and 4 tenants;
• Sub-sale cases with not more than 2 confirmor transactions.

You can upload as many as 50 stamping requests at a time without inputting them one by one on screen.

• Contract notes and/or instrument of transfer for share transfer with not more than 4 joint transferors and/or 4 joint transferees.

You can submit stamping applications in bulk with a maximum of 5,000 instruments at any one time and settle the stamp duty by a single payment.

Conventional stamping

For all types of instruments including property documents and those relating to stock transactions, you may present the original instrument with a stamping request and supporting documents at Stamp Office Counter. For tenancy agreement, the application can be sent by post.

Upon receipt of a stamping request with the required document(s) and payment, the Stamp Office will either issue a stamp certificate in respect of the instrument or impress a stamp on the document.

Paper application of documents

You may submit an application for stamping without presenting the original instrument in respect of agreements and assignments, and tenancy agreements (other than cases presented for adjudication or accompanying with exemption, relief, remission or refund claim) in paper form at Stamp Office Counter. For tenancy agreemen t, the application can be sent by post.

Upon receipt of a stamping request and payment, the Stamp Office will issue a stamp certificate in respect of the instrument.

You can refer to the following Stamping Procedures and Explanatory Notes for details: