Louisiana Real Estate Transfer Tax Calculator

What you actually pay when property changes hands in Louisiana.

Verified September 21, 2026 · statute and revenue department cross-checked

Louisiana does not charge a real estate transfer tax.

Louisiana banned transfer taxes in 2011. No state or local government may create a new one. New Orleans keeps a flat documentary fee that existed before the ban.

In New Orleans a flat $325 documentary tax applies to each recorded transfer, regardless of price. Everywhere else in Louisiana there is no transfer tax at all.

Sources

Statute: La. Const. Art. VII, § 2.3

Louisiana Constitution Art. VII § 2.3
“No new tax or fee upon the sale or transfer of immovable property, including documentary transaction taxes or fees, or any other tax or fee, shall be levied by the state of Louisiana ... or by a political subdivision ... after November 30, 2011.”

Orleans Parish Civil District Court Clerk, Documentary Tax
“All of the above documents are assessed a flat tax of $325.00 except mortgages whose loan amount is under $9,000.00.”

Last verified: September 21, 2026.

Estimates only. Your closing agent or the county recorder issues the final figure, and exemptions can change what you owe. This page does not collect or store anything you enter.