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Intangible tax, capped
$1.50 per $500 of the loan, with the statutory $25,000 cap applied correctly.
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Built for Georgia closings
Georgia real estate closings are conducted by or under the supervision of a Georgia-licensed attorney. That single structural fact means a Georgia title website is a professional-to-professional tool, and content written for consumers largely misses the people who route the work.
Georgia also has a tax most states do not: an intangible recording tax on long-term notes, charged on the loan rather than the sale price, and subject to a statutory cap. National calculators routinely get both parts wrong.
- Intangible recording tax at $1.50 per $500 of the loan
- Statutory $25,000 cap on the intangible tax applied correctly
- Real estate transfer tax at $1 per $1,000
- Attorney-facing order intake and document exchange
- Local SEO for your Georgia county and city
- Seller net sheets accurate to Georgia closings
The intangible tax cap is the detail national calculators miss
Georgia imposes an intangible recording tax on long-term notes secured by real estate at a rate of $1.50 per $500 of the loan amount, or fractional part thereof. Note that it is charged on the loan, not on the purchase price — the first thing a generic calculator gets wrong.
The second thing it gets wrong is the cap. Georgia caps the intangible recording tax at $25,000. On ordinary residential files the cap never comes into play, but on commercial and high-value transactions it absolutely does, and a calculator that keeps multiplying past the cap will overstate the tax by a large margin on exactly the files where accuracy matters most.
Georgia's real estate transfer tax is separate, levied at $1 per $1,000 of consideration on the deed. A correct Georgia estimate carries both lines, computed on different bases.
Your website is talking to closing attorneys
Because Georgia closings are attorney-conducted, the decision about where a file goes is generally made inside a law firm. That reframes what your website needs to do: it is a professional intake tool first, and consumer marketing a distant second.
What earns repeat work from a Georgia closing attorney is dull and specific — order a commitment without a phone call, receive it where they expect it, get exceptions cleared quickly, and move documents securely. Build those, put them on the front page, and the referral pattern follows.
Common questions
Are the calculators accurate for Georgia?
Yes — including the intangible recording tax at $1.50 per $500 of the loan amount with the statutory $25,000 cap applied, and the separate transfer tax at $1 per $1,000 of consideration.
What is Georgia's intangible recording tax?
It is a tax on long-term notes secured by real estate, charged at $1.50 per $500 of the loan amount or fractional part, and capped at $25,000. It is computed on the loan, not the sale price.
Does the cap matter on residential files?
Rarely. The $25,000 cap is reached on large commercial and high-value transactions, which is exactly where an uncapped calculator overstates the tax badly.
Does Georgia require an attorney at closing?
Georgia closings are conducted by or under the supervision of a Georgia-licensed attorney, so we build the site's intake and document tools around attorney workflows.
Can you target my specific Georgia county?
Yes — we build county and city pages for the markets you close in, from Fulton and Gwinnett to coastal and rural counties.
Intangible recording tax rate and cap per Georgia Department of Revenue rules, Subject 560-11-8. Verify current rates and the cap before relying on any figure.
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