Bare ActsThe STAMP ACT, 1977 (1920 A. D.)

Section 21

Stock and marketable securities how to be valued.

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Where an instrument is chargeable with ad valorem duty in respect of any stock or of any marketable or other security, such duty shall be calculated on the 1 [the market of such stock or security] : 2 [Provided that the market value for calculating the stamp-duty shall be, in the case of, –– (i) options in any securities, the premium paid by the buyer ; (ii) repo on corporate bonds, interest paid by the borrower ; and (iii) swap, only the first leg of the cash flow.]

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