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Payment of Stamp Duty on Incorporation Documents


Under sections 27(6) and 34(4) of CAMA, two copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association must be presented to the Federal Commissioner of Stamp Duties for stamping. Also, two copies of statement of authorised share capital (form CAC 2) and return of allotment must also be presented for stamping.

Please note that, it is Two (2) copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association and Two (2)  copies of Form CAC 2 (Statement of Share Capital and Return of Allotment) that is submitted for stamping.

For the Memorandum and Articles of Association, stamping fee/duty is N500 naira for a copy of the two documents.

For Form CAC 2 (Statement of Share Capital and Return of Allotment), the stamp duty is calculated at 0.75% of the total share capital. That is 1.50k for every N200 naira; on the share capital and N7500 naira for every 1 million in the share capital.


Mathematically, calculation of stamp duty for Form CAC 2 (Statement of Share Capital and Return of Allotment), can be represented thus;

Calculation of Stamp Duty: N7500 for every 1,000,000

= amount of Authorized Share Capital    x     7500

               1,000,000                                          1

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