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Accurately calculate court filing fees based on the Measures on the Payment of Litigation Costs. Supports 6 case types including property, non-property, and divorce disputes.
Estimates acceptance fees for five Mainland China case types under Article 13 of the Measures for Payment of Litigation Costs, excluding lawyers, preservation and appraisal. Enter the court’s applicable base fee; select half payment only when legally eligible.
Overview
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This calculator estimates a mainland China case acceptance fee in Chinese yuan (CNY). It is the court fee associated with accepting a case, not a full litigation budget. Choose one of five categories: property, divorce, personality-rights infringement, labor dispute, or civil intellectual-property dispute. The displayed total is rounded to the nearest whole yuan. At the default property amount of CNY 50,000, the calculator returns CNY 1,050.
The national schedule applies the rate to each slice of a property claim, then adds the slices. The calculator expresses that cumulative schedule as a shortcut formula. For example, a CNY 300,000 claim is in the CNY 200,000–500,000 band: 300,000 × 1.5% + 1,300 = CNY 5,800. That is the pre-reduction estimate. The rate applies to the portion in a band; the fixed amount in the shortcut accounts for lower bands.
For a claim over CNY 200,000 and up to CNY 500,000:
Fee = claim × 1.5% + CNY 1,300
For non-property categories, the calculator uses single representative amounts where the national rule gives a range: CNY 150 for divorce up to CNY 200,000 in divided property, CNY 300 for a personality-rights case with up to CNY 50,000 compensation, and CNY 750 for intellectual-property cases without a disputed value. These are calculator defaults, not nationally fixed amounts.
Guide
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Choose property for a monetary claim, or the matching divorce, personality-rights, labor, or intellectual-property option. The calculator does not offer every court-fee category.
For property, use the amount or value claimed. For divorce, enter the total property being divided. For personality-rights, enter the damages amount. For intellectual property, enter a disputed value, or leave the amount at zero when there is no disputed value. Labor disputes use a fixed CNY 10 output and do not need an amount.
The result shows the calculated fee before any reduction, the reduction amount, and the amount due. The half-fee switch simply divides the estimate by two and rounds to a whole yuan; it does not determine whether a case qualifies.
For a CNY 50,000 property claim, the calculator uses 50,000 × 2.5% − 200 = CNY 1,050. For CNY 300,000, it uses 300,000 × 1.5% + 1,300 = CNY 5,800. With the half-fee switch on, the second example displays CNY 2,900 after a CNY 2,900 reduction. Enter amounts in yuan rather than US dollars; no currency conversion is performed.
Use cases
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A party or adviser can estimate the supported case-acceptance fee in CNY, then confirm the court’s payment notice and any other expected expenses separately.
A legal operations team can compare how the property-claim estimate changes across bracket thresholds. The comparison is a budgeting aid and does not decide which claims belong in a case.
When a court process may qualify for a reduced fee, the switch can illustrate half of the calculator’s base estimate. Confirm eligibility with the court before relying on that amount.
Q&A
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No. It estimates only a selected case-acceptance fee. Application fees, preservation, enforcement, expert, translation, lawyer, and other expenses are outside this result.
The national measure gives ranges for several non-property categories and allows provincial-level governments to set amounts within specified ranges. The calculator chooses a representative figure rather than looking up a locality-specific rate.
No. The calculator continues applying 1% to compensation above CNY 50,000. The national schedule applies 1% only to the portion from CNY 50,000 to CNY 100,000, then 0.5% above CNY 100,000. Verify and calculate this category independently when the claim exceeds CNY 100,000.
No. It only halves the displayed estimate. Eligibility depends on the case and procedure, and the court determines the fee payable.
Notes
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Use this result only as a preliminary budget estimate for a case in mainland China. It is not a court payment notice or legal advice. Confirm the applicable amount and procedure with the receiving court.
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