Sigilia Journal.
Articles on the Romanian judicial stamp tax, legislative changes and the Sigilia platform. Written by the product team, no marketing jargon.
Judicial stamp tax for bailiffs: enforcement, contestation, incidental requests.
For Romanian bailiffs, OUG 80/2013 sets specific tariffs for enforcement orders and contestations of enforcement. Here is what you owe and when.
Paying the judicial stamp tax from abroad: what you need to know.
For Romanian citizens domiciled abroad, paying the judicial fee no longer requires a power of attorney or a trip home. Here are the three things on which the payment depends.
Automatic proof filing through ECRIS — how it works.
Sigilia uses the ECRIS Atlas API to file the payment proof directly with the case. Here is the path from bank confirmation to a proof visible on the court portal.
The stamp tax for law firms: rebilling, volume, automation.
How a firm with 30 cases a month cut its payment time from 20 hours to 30 minutes. A case study, with numbers.
Five common mistakes in calculating the judicial stamp tax and how to avoid them.
From confusing evaluable and non-evaluable actions to forgetting the 20 Lei floor on the first bracket, here are the errors we see most often in practice.
Refunding the judicial stamp tax: cases, deadline, procedure.
Article 45 of OUG 80/2013 enumerates four cases in which the paid fee can be refunded. The deadline is three years from payment. The procedure, in three steps.
Stamp tax for appeals and second appeals: what changes at the higher courts.
OUG 80/2013 provides a 50% reduction for second appeals and the full fee for appeals. Here are the rules, with three examples from judicial practice.
Actions exempt from the judicial stamp tax — list by category.
Articles 29 and 30 of OUG 80/2013 enumerate the actions for which no tax is due. Here is the list by category, with the legal basis for each.
Divorce stamp tax in Romania: by agreement, contested, through a mediator.
Three paths, three tariffs. A complete guide to the judicial stamp tax for divorce in 2026, with calculation examples and relevant legal references.
Law 268/2024: the corrections to OUG 80/2013, in detail.
A single law updated dozens of outdated 2013 tariffs. The most visible changes are at divorce, presidential orders and civil-status actions.
Law 199/2025: the annual indexation of the judicial stamp tax.
From 1 January 2026, the fixed values in OUG 80/2013 are automatically updated by the inflation rate published by the National Institute of Statistics. Here is how it works and what it means for your payments.
LibraPay is live.
LibraPay, an authorised processor, is integrated into the Sigilia platform. Payments settle in a single transaction, with the proof generated automatically.
How the evaluable-claim tax is calculated.
Six brackets, a formula each. A worked example: a 5,000 Lei civil claim produces a 355.00 Lei tax.
Romania's stamp-tax law, in plain terms.
Why the Romanian judicial stamp tax exists, what it covers, and what changed under Law 268/2024 and Law 199/2025.