Kansas Tax Reduction Notice

79-3102. Mortgage registration; fee; exemptions; registered mortgage and note secured, exempt from additional taxation. [See Revisor’s Note] (a) Before any mortgage of real property, or renewal or extension of such a mortgage, is received and filed for record, there shall be paid to the register of deeds of the county in which such property or any part thereof is situated a registration tax of the principal debt or obligation which is secured by such mortgage, which tax shall be computed in accordance with the following schedules. In the event the mortgage states that an amount less than the entire principal debt or obligation will be secured thereby, the registration fee shall be paid on such lesser amount.

(1) For all mortgages of real property, or renewal or extension of such a mortgage, received and filed for record prior to January 1, 2015, the tax shall be 0.26% of the principal debt or obligation which is secured by such mortgage.

(2) For all mortgages of real property, or renewal or extension of such a mortgage, received and filed for record on and after January 1, 2015, but prior to January 1, 2016, the tax shall be 0.2% of the principal debt or obligation which is secured by such mortgage.

(3) For all mortgages of real property, or renewal or extension of such a mortgage, received and filed for record on and after January 1, 2016, but prior to January 1, 2017, the tax shall be 0.15% of the principal debt or obligation which is secured by such mortgage.

(4) For all mortgages of real property, or renewal or extension of such a mortgage, received and filed for record on and after January 1, 2017, but prior to January 1, 2018, the tax shall be 0.1% of the principal debt or obligation which is secured by such mortgage.

(5) For all mortgages of real property, or renewal or extension of such a mortgage, received and filed for record on and after January 1, 2018, but prior to January 1, 2019, the tax shall be 0.05% of the principal debt or obligation which is secured by such mortgage.

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