State & county documentary-stamp and transfer taxes. Change the numbers and hit Calculate to see it work — on your live site it's branded to you and uses your state's exact rates.
State & county documentary-stamp and transfer taxes
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Transfer and documentary stamp taxes vary by state and county and trip up buyers and even agents. This calculator computes the transfer tax on a sale price so the figure is right before it ever reaches the closing statement.
Built into your website, it removes a common source of closing-day surprises and positions your office as the local expert who gets the numbers right the first time.
It applies your state and county transfer or documentary-stamp rate to the sale price (and to the new mortgage where your state taxes that separately).
No. Texas charges none. Others charge at the state level, the county level, the municipal level, or all three. The rate that applies depends on where the property sits, not where the parties live.
Custom varies. The seller pays in most places, some jurisdictions split it, and the contract can allocate it however the parties agree. Confirm the convention for the county where the property is located.
No. Transfer tax is a tax on the conveyance, usually calculated on the sales price. Recording fees are what the clerk charges to record the document, usually a flat amount plus a per-page charge. Both appear at closing and clients routinely confuse them.
Yes — we configure it for your jurisdiction, including any county surtaxes, so the estimate is accurate where you close.
Buyers, sellers, Realtors, and lenders who want the tax figure up front — and your team, to quote faster without manual lookups.
Transfer tax is set locally, and the spread across the country is enormous. Texas charges none at all. Pennsylvania charges 1% to the Commonwealth plus a local rate that commonly doubles it, and more in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Florida charges documentary stamps at $0.70 per $100 statewide, except Miami-Dade. A client who moved from one state to another will budget from the wrong number every time.
In most places the seller pays, but it is negotiable and in some counties it is split. Because it is a percentage of price rather than a flat fee, getting it wrong on a $600,000 sale is a four-figure surprise at the table — which is the kind of surprise that ends up being the title company's fault in the client's memory.
A listing agent preparing a net sheet needs this number before the listing appointment, not after. If they cannot get it from your site in ten seconds they will use a national estimator that gets the local rate wrong, and you will spend a phone call correcting it.
In several states the municipality or the school district levies its own transfer tax on top of the state rate. Two properties a mile apart, in different boroughs, can carry materially different tax on the same price. A statewide rate is not enough — the estimate has to know the municipality.
Transfers between spouses, into a revocable trust, by gift, or in a divorce settlement are commonly exempt or reduced, and the exemption is claimed on the recording documents rather than granted automatically. An agency that flags the exemption early saves the client real money and is remembered for it.
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