A state payment, built like a product.
Sigilia is the payment platform for the Romanian judicial stamp tax. The calculation is exact, the payment is regulated, the proof is filed directly with the court. It replaces the digitaljust.ro portal.
Why Sigilia exists.
Paying the judicial stamp tax is still one of the friction points in a citizen's relationship with the court. The amount depends on the type of action and, for evaluable claims, on the claim value. The destination treasury accounts differ by county. The receipt has to reach the file before the first hearing. The legacy digitaljust.ro portal is outdated and its interface no longer matches the current legal structure.
Sigilia is built as a payment product, not as an administrative portal. The calculator follows the exact brackets of Romanian Emergency Ordinance 80/2013, indexed by Law 199/2025. Payment is by card, through an authorised processor. The receipt is electronically signed, registered automatically with the relevant UAT treasury, and forwarded to the court via its official email. Every component of the amount paid is visible before confirmation.
Operational target: a citizen with intermediate Romanian and no legal training goes from the calculator to the PDF receipt in their inbox in under five minutes. A lawyer processing ten cases at once goes through the same flow with a CSV export at the end. A court clerk verifies authenticity through a QR code, without an account and without rate limits.
What the stamp tax is.
The *taxa judiciară de timbru* is paid for any action filed in court. Its value depends on the action type and, for evaluable claims, on the value of the claim.
The legal basis.
The base is Romanian Emergency Ordinance 80/2013. Values were updated by Law 268/2024 and are indexed annually by Law 199/2025.
The service commission.
A service commission applies on top of the judicial tax. It differs between individuals (PF) and legal entities (PJ). The exact amount is shown in the calculator before confirmation.
The partners.
Payments are processed by LibraPay. The qualified electronic signature is provided by OneSpan. The proof is filed with the competent court.
The price, broken out.
Sigilia publishes every component of the payment, line by line. The state tax goes to the statutory accounts. The Sigilia commission covers payment processing and proof generation. The bank cost is the one charged by the processor.
The Sigilia commission and the bank cost are shown in the calculator on every run, alongside the judicial tax. Any change is published in the application's version log.
How we operate.
- 01.
Transparency.
Every leu is visible before confirmation. The judicial tax, the Sigilia commission and the bank cost appear on separate lines, not inside an opaque total.
- 02.
Compliance.
OUG 80/2013, Law 268/2024, Law 199/2025 for the calculation base. GDPR + Law 455/2001 for the electronic signature. ANSPDCP notification for data processing.
- 03.
Audit.
Every receipt carries a SHA-256 fingerprint and a public QR verification code. The court confirms authenticity without an account and without rate limits.
- 04.
Independence.
Sigilia is not a public authority. The operator is Sigilia SRL, acting as a civil mandatary under Romanian Civil Code art. 2009 and following.
Three laws. One calculation.
- OUG 80/2013
Emergency Ordinance 80/2013.
Sets the structure of the stamp tax, with 102 fixed types and six evaluable brackets up to 500,000 Lei.
- LAW 268/2024
Law 268/2024.
Updates the fixed values and corrects several outdated tariffs of OUG 80/2013.
- LAW 199/2025
Law 199/2025.
Introduces an automatic annual indexation of the calculation base, effective from publication in the Official Gazette.
Who runs Sigilia.
The Sigilia platform is operated by Sigilia SRL, with its registered office in Romania. The operator is not the Ministry of Justice and does not act as a public authority. Payments are recorded in the statutory accounts of the beneficiaries (the treasuries of the competent UATs), as required by law.