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Article 268

Part XII — Finance, Property, Contracts and Suits · Constitution of India

Article 268

Duties levied by the Union but collected and appropriated by the States. (1) Such stamp duties as are mentioned in the Union List shall be levied by the Government of India but shall be collected— (a) in the case where such duties are leviable within any Union territory, by the Government of India, and (b) in other cases, by the States within which such duties are respectively leviable. (2) The proceeds in any financial year of any such duty leviable within any State shall not form part of the Consolidated Fund of India, but shall be assigned to that State.

In plain wordsCertain stamp duties are set by the central government but collected and kept by the states. When you pay these duties, the money stays with your state government instead of going to the centre.
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