County Auditors in Ohio are permitted to collect a fee for the administration related to the transfer of deeds.  There are two elements to the “real estate conveyance fee” (which is also commonly referred to as the “real estate transfer tax”).  R.C. 319.54 levies a fee that is measured as 10 cents of every 100 dollars of the value of the real property transferred.  Counties, under R.C. 322.02, are also given the authority to levy an additional real estate transfer tax of up to 30 cents per one hundred dollars of value (grand total of maximum fee/tax of 40 cents of every 100 dollars of value of real property transferred; or, denoted as a decimal 0.004).  Read More