Vietnam notary fee & transfer cost API

Official notary fees (TT 257/2016) by contract type and value, plus the cost of a property transfer: 2% income tax, 0.5% registration fee, local fees.

Parameters

Example

curl "https://apibox.io.vn/v1/vn-notary-fee?type=transfer&value=3000000000&state_value=3500000000" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch('https://apibox.io.vn/v1/vn-notary-fee?type=transfer&value=3000000000&state_value=3500000000', {
  method: 'GET',
  headers: {
    Authorization: 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY',
  },
});
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://apibox.io.vn/v1/vn-notary-fee?type=transfer&value=3000000000&state_value=3500000000",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"},
    timeout=30,
)
print(res.json())

<?php
$ch = curl_init('https://apibox.io.vn/v1/vn-notary-fee?type=transfer&value=3000000000&state_value=3500000000');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY'],
]);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
print_r(json_decode($response, true));

Response

{
  "type": "transfer",
  "type_vi": "Chuyển nhượng quyền sử dụng đất (kể cả có nhà, tài sản gắn liền)",
  "value": 3000000000,
  "fee_base": 3500000000,
  "fee_base_note": "The agreed value is below the state price, so the state price is used (TT 257/2016/TT-BTC Điều 4 khoản 2 điểm d)",
  "notary_fee": 2450000,
  "total_notary_fees": 2450000,
  "legal": {
    "schedule": "Thông tư 257/2016/TT-BTC, sửa đổi bởi Thông tư 111/2017/TT-BTC",
    "effective_from": "2017-01-01"
  },
  "transfer_cost": {
    "price": 3000000000,
    "items": [
      {
        "item": "Notary fee",
        "item_vi": "Phí công chứng",
        "amount": 2450000,
        "payer": "agreed (usually the buyer)",
        "ref": "TT 257/2016/TT-BTC Điều 4 khoản 2 điểm a1"
      },
      {
        "item": "Personal income tax 2% of the transfer price",
        "item_vi": "Thuế TNCN 2% giá chuyển nhượng",
        "amount": 60000000,
        "payer": "seller (unless agreed otherwise)",
        "ref": "Luật Thuế TNCN 109/2025/QH15 Điều 14 (from 1/7/2026; 2% as before)"
      },
      {
        "item": "Registration fee 0.5%",
        "item_vi": "Lệ phí trước bạ 0,5%",
        "amount": 17500000,
        "payer": "buyer / receiver",
        "ref": "NĐ 10/2022/NĐ-CP Điều 7, Điều 8 khoản 1"
      },
      {
        "item": "Certificate fee and dossier appraisal fee (provincial)",
        "item_vi": "Lệ phí cấp giấy chứng nhận, phí thẩm định hồ sơ (theo tỉnh)",
        "amount": null,
        "payer": "buyer / receiver",
        "ref": "TT 85/2019/TT-BTC (set by each provincial People’s Council)"
      }
    ],
    "total": 79950000,
    "total_is_complete": false
  },
  "reviewed": "2026-11-11"
}

Use cases

• Show buyers the total cost of buying a house on a listing page
• Quote notary fees in a law-firm or notary office website
• Estimate closing costs in a mortgage app
• Check a notary invoice against the official scale

FAQ

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