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Leave and licence
This works out the stamp duty and registration fee on a leave and licence agreement in Gujarat, which is charged at half a percent rather than the lease rates. Whether your document is a licence or a lease changes the duty by a large multiple.
Updated 11 August 2026. Rates read from the official IGR Gujarat help files on 11 August 2026.
A licence is not a lease, and it is not priced like one
A leave and licence agreement gives somebody permission to occupy a property without creating a tenancy in it. Gujarat charges it under Article 30A at half a percent of the total amount, which is a fraction of what the same money would attract as a lease under Article 30.
The registration fee is one percent, the same one percent that applies to a lease. So the whole difference between the two documents sits in the stamp duty, and it is a large difference.
If what you are signing runs for a fixed term and grants exclusive possession, it may be a lease whatever it is titled. Work that case out on the lease stamp duty page instead.
Licence against lease, on the same money
| Document | Article | Stamp duty | Registration fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leave and licence, other than residential | 30A | 0.50% of the total amount | 1% of the amount |
| Lease against rent, 3 to 10 years | 30(a) | 4.9% of the average yearly rent | 1% |
| Lease against rent, 10 to 30 years | 30(a) | 4.9% of twice the average yearly rent | 1% |
| Lease against a premium | 30(b) | 4.9% of the premium | 1% |
Where this comes from
- Article 30A: leave and licence other than residential property at 0.50 percent of the total amount CONFIRMED Help file for the Gujarat government's own stamp duty calculator, gARVI_Help_for_Stamp_duty_calculator.pdf, 9 pages, published by the Inspector General of Registration, Gujarat.
Read verbatim off printed page 4 of the official help file for the government's own stamp duty calculator, on 11 August 2026. - Registration fee of 1 percent on a leave and licence CONFIRMED Help file for the Gujarat government's own registration fee calculator, gARVI_Hellp_for_Registration_Fee_calculation.pdf, 9 pages, published by the Inspector General of Registration, Gujarat.
Printed pages 7 and 8 of the official registration fee help file. - The rate for a residential leave and licence UNKNOWN
The published article covers property other than residential and the help file gives no separate residential rate. No figure is asserted.
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