Colorado imposes a state documentary tax on every person offering for recording in the office of the county clerk and recorder any deed or instrument in writing wherein or whereby title to real property situated in Colorado is granted or conveyed.

This includes transfers on Colorado Quitclaim deeds. Technically, the Colorado state documentary tax is referred as a “documentary fee”, measured by the consideration paid or to be paid for such grant or conveyance, which documentary fee is in addition to any other fee fixed by law for the recording of such deed or instrument in writing.

The amount of Colorado state documentary tax or fee is as follows:

When there is no consideration or when the total consideration paid by the purchaser, inclusive of the amount of any lien or encumbrance against the real property granted or conveyed and all charges and expenses required to be paid for the making of such grant or conveyance is five hundred dollars or less, no Colorado state documentary tax / fee is payable.

When the total consideration paid by the purchaser, inclusive of the amount of any lien or encumbrance against the real property granted or conveyed and all charges and expenses required to be paid for the making of such grant or conveyance exceeds five hundred dollars, the Colorado state documentary tax / fee payable is computed at the rate of one cent for each one hundred dollars, or major fraction thereof, of such consideration.

All Colorado state documentary taxes / fees are payable to and collected by the county clerk and recorder.

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