How much does an Italian cadastral transfer of ownership cost?

Each application carries EUR 70.00 as a mortgage and cadastral services fee, to which stamp duty of EUR 16.00 for every 4 pages of the application is added. In the ordinary case, meaning an application that stays within four pages, the bill is therefore EUR 86.00. There is, however, a very common case in which nothing is paid at all: since 1 January 2014, transfers arising from deeds taxed at the proportional registration rate of 9%, 2% or 12% are exempt from both the special fees and stamp duty.

When it arises from a deed taxed at the proportional registration rate of 9%, 2% or 12%. This rule took effect on 1 January 2014 and covers the most common situation of all: buying a property with proportional registration tax, at 9% for a second home or 2% for a main residence. In those cases neither the special cadastral fees nor stamp duty are due on the application. It explains why many people who have bought a home do not remember ever paying for a transfer: not because the notary quietly handled it, but because there was nothing to pay.

The duty falls on the heirs, who can either deal with it directly or instruct a professional. This is where people most often meet the procedure in person, because in a notarised sale the notary normally handles it alongside the rest of the file. Before filing, though, it is worth checking whether the transfer has already been carried out on the basis of the succession declaration submitted: a second application would then be a duplicate, and the fee paid would not come back.

The application is rejected and what you paid is not returned: the Italian Revenue Agency states expressly that where an application is rejected because it was completed incorrectly, the declarant has no right to any refund. The application then has to be filed again, with the fee and stamp duty paid in full a second time. This is why a check beforehand is worth the trouble on this particular procedure, even just cross-reading the deed against the property's cadastral data: the risk is not a delay, it is paying twice for the same step.

At the counter you can pay by debit or prepaid card, or by affixing to the application the service stamp and duty stamp bought from authorised resellers. The F24 Elide form is also accepted. Anyone using the online cadastral transfer service pays through the pagoPA platform. People resident abroad without an account at a participating bank may pay by bank transfer. The channel chosen does not change the amounts due: it changes only how they are paid and what receipt you are left with.

No, and confusing them leads to wrong estimates. A transfer updates who the property is registered to after a sale, a gift or an inheritance. A cadastral variation acts on the data of the property itself: the floor plan, the size, the category, the cadastral income, for instance after renovation work that changed the internal layout. They are distinct procedures with different triggers and different costs, and sometimes both are needed: buying a property whose floor plan does not reflect the building as it stands calls for a variation as well as a transfer.