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Florida Documentary Stamp Tax
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$0.70 per $100, or fraction, outside Miami-Dade.
A $400,000 deed is $2,800. $400,050 rounds up to $2,800.70.
$0.35 per $100 of a new mortgage. Buyer custom here.
$2 per $1,000 of a new mortgage. Not a seller line unless the contract says so.
Deed documentary stamps are a Florida transfer tax on the deed. In Duval, Clay, St. Johns, and Nassau the rate is $0.70 per $100 of consideration, or any fraction of $100.
Miami-Dade uses a different rate. We do not quote it and we do not close it. The examples below are the ones we use on a Jacksonville file. Call (904) 309-0609 if you want them on a real contract.
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Deed stamps under section 201.02
Section 201.02 charges documentary stamps on the deed at $0.70 per $100. Any fraction of $100 rounds up to the next $100. That is the rule in every Florida county except Miami-Dade.
The tax follows the consideration on the deed, which on a normal sale is the contract price. A seller credit does not lower that price. A price cut does. Title computes the stamps off the deed, not off a group text.
Duval, Clay, St. Johns, and Nassau all use this rate. Amelia Island is still Nassau, so it is still $0.70. The Amelia question people ask is about title custom, not about the stamp rate.
Two worked examples
A deed at $400,000 is an even number of hundreds. Divide $400,000 by $100 and you get 4,000. Multiply by $0.70 and the tax is $2,800.
$400,050 is not a clean hundred. The fraction rounds up to the next $100, so the taxable amount is $400,100. That is 4,001 hundreds. Times $0.70, the tax is $2,800.70.
Fifty dollars of price added $0.70 of tax, because the law taxes the next full $100. Do not drop the cents. The closing disclosure will not drop them. You can run your own price on the seller net sheet.
Note stamps and intangible tax
Note stamps, section 201.08, are $0.35 per $100 of a new mortgage. In our area that line is a buyer custom. It is a tax on the new note, not on the deed.
Nonrecurring intangible tax is $2 per $1,000 of a new mortgage. Buyer custom as well. On the closing disclosure these two sit with the buyer, separate from the deed stamps the seller usually pays.
A cash sale has no new mortgage, so those two buyer lines do not appear. The deed stamps still do. An assumption is a title-company question on that file. Do not copy a purchase net sheet onto an assumption and hope.
Who pays on a Northeast Florida file
On FAR and Florida Bar contracts in Northeast Florida, custom puts deed stamps on the seller. Custom puts note stamps and intangible tax on the buyer. The owner's title policy is usually the seller. The lender's title policy is usually the buyer.
The contract controls. If the parties flip a line, the settlement follows the contract, not the custom. Amelia Island is the local exception people ask about on title: buyer-side title custom there. Stamp math does not flip with it.
Who signs which check is covered on who pays closing costs in Florida. Read that before you trade a credit for a price cut.
Miami-Dade is outside this rate
Every Florida county we work uses $0.70 per $100 except Miami-Dade. Miami-Dade has its own documentary stamp rate. We do not quote that rate on a Jacksonville page, and we do not close those files from this office.
If a relocation sheet mentions Miami, use a Miami-Dade title company for that figure. For a house in Jacksonville, Orange Park, St. Johns, or Yulee, use $0.70 and the rounding rule above.
Do not let an out-of-state net sheet overwrite this. A lot of national estimators still use a flat guess. The Florida statute is the rate. The deed price, rounded up, is the base.
Run the price on the net sheet
The seller net sheet is the calculator. It charges deed stamps at $0.70 per $100, rounded up, the same way as the $400,000 and $400,050 examples. The bottom line is an estimate, not a closing disclosure.
Type the contract price. A concession does not reduce the stamp base. Note stamps and intangible tax stay off the seller's check unless the contract says the seller pays them. If it does, those dollars go in the flat-cost line.
Bring the offer and we will read it with you. Call (904) 309-0609.
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