Arkansas Real Estate Transfer Tax Calculator

Arkansas taxes real estate transfers under its Real Property Transfer Tax, codified in Title 26, Chapter 60 of the Arkansas Code. The rate is set at $3.30 for every $1,000 of consideration paid, which works out to an even 0.33% of the sale price. Like Alabama and Georgia, Arkansas uses a single flat rate rather than the marginal bracket system found in states like Connecticut or Washington, so the math scales linearly with no jumps at any threshold.

This calculator takes the home sale price as its only input and returns the exact transfer tax due, the effective rate, and the net proceeds a seller keeps after the state collects its share. Because the rate is a clean 0.33% with no county or municipal add-on authorized in Arkansas, the tax due is straightforward to verify by hand, but a calculator still removes any risk of a rounding or decimal-placement error on a real closing statement.

Arkansas's transfer tax structure is a single flat rate applied to the entire sale price:

$$\text{Transfer Tax} = \text{Sale Price} \times 0.0033$$

The calculator's engine runs this through the calculateStateRealEstateTransferTax primitive using Arkansas's statutory rate of 0.0033 (0.33%) and no local add-on, since Arkansas does not authorize county or city transfer tax surcharges layered on top of the state rate. The primitive returns the tax due, the effective rate (which will always equal 0.33% for Arkansas since there are no brackets to shift the effective rate), and net proceeds after subtracting the tax from the sale price.

Because Arkansas has no bracket structure or high-value surcharge, the calculation shape never changes regardless of sale price. A $75,000 rural parcel and a $7,500,000 commercial property are both taxed at exactly 0.33% of consideration.

Using the calculator's baseline $380,000 sale price:

• Sale Price: $380,000
• Arkansas transfer tax rate: 0.33% ($3.30 per $1,000 of consideration)
• Transfer Tax Due: $380,000 × 0.0033 = $1,254.00
• Net Proceeds After Tax: $380,000 − $1,254 = $378,746.00
• Effective Rate: 0.330%

At the higher-value scenario of $1,500,000, the same flat rate applies: $1,500,000 × 0.0033 = $4,950.00 in tax due. The rate stays fixed at 0.33% whether the sale price is $50,000 or $50,000,000, which makes Arkansas's transfer tax easy to estimate mentally: simply take roughly one-third of one percent of the sale price.

• County recording fees. Arkansas county circuit clerks charge separate flat recording fees to file a deed, which are unrelated to sale price and not included in this calculator's output.
• Mortgage-related fees. Any loan origination or lender-required fees tied to financing the purchase are separate from the state transfer tax and are not modeled here.
• Exemptions for certain transfer types. Arkansas law exempts certain transfers, including those between spouses, into revocable trusts, and by will or intestate succession, from the transfer tax. This calculator assumes a standard taxable arm's-length sale.
• Title insurance and closing agent fees. As with any state, the transfer tax is only one line item among several on an Arkansas closing statement; title search, title insurance, and attorney or closing agent fees are separate and not captured here.

• Underestimating the tax on higher-value sales. Because 0.33% feels small in percentage terms, sellers on larger transactions sometimes underestimate the dollar impact; a $2,000,000 sale still generates $6,600 in transfer tax at this flat rate.
• Confusing Arkansas's rate with a neighboring state's rate. States bordering Arkansas, including Missouri (no transfer tax) and Louisiana (no transfer tax), have very different transfer tax regimes, and buyers or sellers moving across state lines sometimes carry over the wrong assumption.
• Assuming the rate is negotiable. The 0.33% rate is set by statute and applies uniformly; unlike some closing cost allocations, it is not something a buyer and seller can negotiate away, only reallocate between themselves by contract as to who pays it.
• Overlooking who customarily pays. Arkansas law does not dictate which party bears the transfer tax; in practice this is set by the purchase contract and can vary by local custom, so it should always be confirmed rather than assumed.

• Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration: Real Property Transfer Tax guidance, Arkansas Code Title 26, Chapter 60
• Engine table: engine/tables/2026/state-real-estate-transfer-tax.json, Arkansas entry, verified 2026-08-21