How to pay the court fee for an administrative claim

When this is needed

This pro­ce­dure covers one or­di­nary mon­e­tary or non-mon­e­tary claim by an in­di­vid­ual or legal entity to an ad­min­is­tra­tive court of first in­stance in 2026. For example, a Lviv company chal­lenges a public au­thor­i­ty de­ci­sion that af­fect­ed its fi­nan­cial in­ter­ests. An ad­min­is­tra­tive case differs from a civil claim and an appeal against an ad­min­is­tra­tive-offence ruling. Before paying, check how to frame a claim against a public au­thor­i­ty.

Applicable deadline or procedure

The Law on Court Fee sets the rate for an in­di­vid­ual’s mon­e­tary ad­min­is­tra­tive claim at 1% of the claim value, but no less than 0.4 and no more than 5 sub­sis­tence min­i­mums for able-bodied persons. For a legal entity, it is 1.5%, but no less than 1 and no more than 10 such min­i­mums. For one or­di­nary non-mon­e­tary claim, the rates are 0.4 and 1 sub­sis­tence minimum, re­spec­tive­ly. Under the 2026 budget law, the base on 1 January is UAH 3,328.

The limits for an in­di­vid­ual’s mon­e­tary claim are there­fore UAH 1,331.20–16,640, and for a legal entity UAH 3,328–33,280. The non-mon­e­tary rates are UAH 1,331.20 and UAH 3,328, re­spec­tive­ly. For actual elec­tron­ic filing of a pro­ce­dur­al doc­u­ment, apply a 0.8 co­ef­fi­cient to the cal­cu­lat­ed rate. Paying online for a paper claim does not qualify.

Check the cal­cu­la­tion in the ad­min­is­tra­tive claim court-fee cal­cu­la­tor. It rounds half a kopeck up as a tech­ni­cal con­ven­tion. These rates apply specif­i­cal­ly to 2026 and cannot au­to­mat­i­cal­ly be carried over to 2027.

Steps to take

1. Check ju­ris­dic­tion and the claim. Under Article 19 of the Code of Ad­min­is­tra­tive Pro­ce­dure of Ukraine, ad­min­is­tra­tive courts hear public-law dis­putes defined by law. The sub­stance of the request matters more than the doc­u­ment’s title. If one claim in­cludes several in­de­pen­dent or mixed re­quests, the single-claim cal­cu­la­tion above does not cover the full fee.
2. Iden­ti­fy the proper court. Ar­ti­cles 25–27 of the Code of Ad­min­is­tra­tive Pro­ce­dure of Ukraine set general, al­ter­na­tive and ex­clu­sive venue rules. For a case con­nect­ed with Lviv or the region, check whether it belongs in the Lviv Dis­trict Ad­min­is­tra­tive Court. The claimant’s lo­ca­tion alone does not always de­ter­mine venue.
3. Cal­cu­late the payment. If a legal entity brings one mon­e­tary claim for UAH 300,000, the 1.5% rate is UAH 4,500, within the limits. For paper filing, the es­ti­mat­ed payment is UAH 4,500; if the doc­u­ment is ac­tu­al­ly filed elec­tron­i­cal­ly, it is UAH 3,600.
4. Check ex­emp­tions and payment details. The law may exempt certain claimants; the court may con­sid­er an ap­pli­ca­tion to defer or reduce the fee under Article 8. If you need help, check the con­di­tions for an ex­emp­tion or re­duc­tion. Im­me­di­ate­ly before payment, get the details from the Lviv Dis­trict Ad­min­is­tra­tive Court court-fee page if that is the proper court.
5. Attach proof. Ar­ti­cles 160–161 of the Code of Ad­min­is­tra­tive Pro­ce­dure of Ukraine set out the claim’s con­tents and at­tach­ments. Keep the payment doc­u­ment or doc­u­ments sup­port­ing an ex­emp­tion or an ap­pli­ca­tion con­cern­ing the fee.

What to check before filing

Do not de­ter­mine the nature of a claim only from the fact that a public au­thor­i­ty’s de­ci­sion has fi­nan­cial con­se­quences: the legal clas­si­fi­ca­tion depends on the relief re­quest­ed and the cir­cum­stances. This cal­cu­la­tion does not cover sole pro­pri­etors, public au­thor­i­ties acting as claimants, special ap­pli­ca­tions, mul­ti­ple claims, appeals or cas­sa­tion appeals. Sep­a­rate­ly check the pro­ce­dur­al dead­line for ap­ply­ing to an ad­min­is­tra­tive court.

If the money has already gone to the wrong account, do not rely on the old receipt. Find out the pro­ce­dure for re­fund­ing the court fee and pay using the correct details. This guide does not list an account number because it must be checked on the court’s of­fi­cial page before each payment.

When to consult a lawyer

Ask a lawyer to review the claim if you are unsure whether it is mon­e­tary or non-mon­e­tary, have several claims, face a venue dispute, may qualify for an ex­emp­tion or have already made a payment. For cases con­nect­ed with Lviv or Lviv region, the prac­ti­cal first step is to check venue based on the sub­stance of the dispute and the Code of Ad­min­is­tra­tive Pro­ce­dure of Ukraine, then verify the payment details.