France Notary Fees & Transfer Tax Calculator (Frais de notaire)

About the France Notary Fees & Transfer Tax Calculator (Frais de notaire)

Work out the costs of buying property in metropolitan France, the "frais de notaire". Most of them are taxes the notary collects: the département’s transfer tax at the rate in the DGFiP’s table for your département — raised to 5 % in most départements, but not for a first-time buyer’s main home — the State’s assessment fee on it and the communal tax. The rest is the notary’s own fee, set by a regulated scale, with VAT, and the disbursements on the notary’s estimate.

Choose the département, enter the price and say whether you are a first-time buyer or buying a new building with VAT, and see every line. Nothing you type leaves your browser. Without a pass the page shows a free preview of your own result: the purchase costs in all, with the first rows of each table, while every other figure stays hidden until you unlock it with a Pro pass.

Transfer taxes (droits de mutation)

On an existing property the buyer pays (BOFiP):

• the departmental tax at the rate the département votes, at most 4,50 % under article 1594 D of the CGI; for deeds up to 31 March 2028 a département may raise it up to 5 %, and 85 of the 95 metropolitan départements and areas in the DGFiP’s table have (impots.gouv.fr);
• the State’s assessment fee, 2,37 % of the departmental tax (BOFiP);
• the communal tax, 1,2 % of the price (BOFiP).

The raised rate does not apply when the property is the buyer’s first property and their main residence: a person who has not owned their main home in the two years before the purchase. That two-year condition is waived when the buyer, or someone who will live in the home as their main residence, holds an invalidity card or receives certain invalidity pensions or disability allowances, or when a disaster has made their main home permanently uninhabitable.

New buildings sold with VAT

A new building — finished five years ago or less — bought from a VAT-registered seller with VAT pays the reduced rate of 0,7 % with the State’s 2,14 % of it, about 0,715 % in all, and no communal tax (BOFiP). The VAT is in the price, so the overall cost of buying new is not always lower.

The notary’s fee scale (émoluments)

The notary’s own fee for a sale is set by a regulated scale on the price, before VAT (Service-Public):

• 3,87 % up to 6 500 €;
• 1,596 % from 6 500 € to 17 000 €;
• 1,064 % from 17 000 € to 60 000 €;
• 0,799 % above 60 000 €.

On 200 000 € that is 1 995,25 € before VAT, plus 20 % VAT. For a deal above 150 000 € the notary may grant a discount, if it is offered to every client alike. Disbursements (débours), the property security contribution and formality fees come on top: their amounts are on the notary’s estimate.

Alsace-Moselle and overseas

In Bas-Rhin, Haut-Rhin and Moselle the deed is entered in the land register (livre foncier), and a registration duty is charged at the rates the départements vote. The overseas départements have fee scales of their own and are not covered here.

Limitations

• Metropolitan France only; the overseas départements’ fee scales differ.
• Residential purchases: offices and commercial premises in Île-de-France pay an extra regional tax, and land, business assets and leases have rules of their own.
• The rates are those of the DGFiP’s latest table of departmental rates; a département can change its rate by a vote, and you can enter another rate.
• A département’s own allowances and reductions, and exemptions, are named but not applied.
• One rate for the whole price: with several buyers the lower first-time-buyer rate applies only to the share of each buyer who qualifies, and a married couple buying together under a community-of-property regime must both qualify.
• Disbursements, the property security contribution and formality fees are taken as you enter them.
• An estimate, not legal or tax advice: the notary’s estimate and deed decide.

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