diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 630275aa8a08..6b8c4562929d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Ref: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/
 
 ### Features
 
+* [\#9860](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/9860) Emit transaction fee in ante handler fee decorator. The event type is `tx` and the attribute is `fee`.
 * [\#9776](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/9776) Add flag `staking-bond-denom` to specify the staking bond denomination value when initializing a new chain.
 * [\#9533](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/9533) Added a new gRPC method, `DenomOwners`, in `x/bank` to query for all account holders of a specific denomination.
 * (bank) [\#9618](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/pull/9618) Update bank.Metadata: add URI and URIHash attributes.
diff --git a/types/events.go b/types/events.go
index 27a0017635af..9c495a9da2a7 100644
--- a/types/events.go
+++ b/types/events.go
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ var (
 
 	AttributeKeyAccountSequence = "acc_seq"
 	AttributeKeySignature       = "signature"
+	AttributeKeyFee             = "fee"
 
 	EventTypeMessage = "message"
 
diff --git a/x/auth/ante/fee.go b/x/auth/ante/fee.go
index e183887d0fc9..b1d1d72a770e 100644
--- a/x/auth/ante/fee.go
+++ b/x/auth/ante/fee.go
@@ -117,6 +117,11 @@ func (dfd DeductFeeDecorator) AnteHandle(ctx sdk.Context, tx sdk.Tx, simulate bo
 		}
 	}
 
+	events := sdk.Events{sdk.NewEvent(sdk.EventTypeTx,
+		sdk.NewAttribute(sdk.AttributeKeyFee, feeTx.GetFee().String()),
+	)}
+	ctx.EventManager().EmitEvents(events)
+
 	return next(ctx, tx, simulate)
 }
 
diff --git a/x/auth/client/testutil/suite.go b/x/auth/client/testutil/suite.go
index 666542e30e1a..fd4a472f841c 100644
--- a/x/auth/client/testutil/suite.go
+++ b/x/auth/client/testutil/suite.go
@@ -428,6 +428,76 @@ func (s *IntegrationTestSuite) TestCLIQueryTxCmdByEvents() {
 	}
 }
 
+func (s *IntegrationTestSuite) TestCLIQueryTxsCmdByEvents() {
+	val := s.network.Validators[0]
+
+	account2, err := val.ClientCtx.Keyring.Key("newAccount2")
+	s.Require().NoError(err)
+
+	sendTokens := sdk.NewInt64Coin(s.cfg.BondDenom, 10)
+
+	// Send coins.
+	out, err := s.createBankMsg(
+		val, account2.GetAddress(),
+		sdk.NewCoins(sendTokens),
+	)
+	s.Require().NoError(err)
+	var txRes sdk.TxResponse
+	s.Require().NoError(val.ClientCtx.Codec.UnmarshalJSON(out.Bytes(), &txRes))
+	s.Require().NoError(s.network.WaitForNextBlock())
+
+	// Query the tx by hash to get the inner tx.
+	out, err = clitestutil.ExecTestCLICmd(val.ClientCtx, authcli.QueryTxCmd(), []string{txRes.TxHash, fmt.Sprintf("--%s=json", tmcli.OutputFlag)})
+	s.Require().NoError(err)
+	s.Require().NoError(val.ClientCtx.Codec.UnmarshalJSON(out.Bytes(), &txRes))
+
+	testCases := []struct {
+		name        string
+		args        []string
+		expectEmpty bool
+	}{
+		{
+			"fee event happy case",
+			[]string{
+				fmt.Sprintf("--events=tx.fee=%s",
+					sdk.NewCoins(sdk.NewCoin(s.cfg.BondDenom, sdk.NewInt(10))).String()),
+				fmt.Sprintf("--%s=json", tmcli.OutputFlag),
+			},
+			false,
+		},
+		{
+			"no matching fee event",
+			[]string{
+				fmt.Sprintf("--events=tx.fee=%s",
+					sdk.NewCoins(sdk.NewCoin(s.cfg.BondDenom, sdk.NewInt(0))).String()),
+				fmt.Sprintf("--%s=json", tmcli.OutputFlag),
+			},
+			true,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range testCases {
+		tc := tc
+		s.Run(tc.name, func() {
+			cmd := authcli.QueryTxsByEventsCmd()
+			clientCtx := val.ClientCtx
+
+			out, err := clitestutil.ExecTestCLICmd(clientCtx, cmd, tc.args)
+			s.Require().NoError(err)
+
+			var result sdk.SearchTxsResult
+			s.Require().NoError(val.ClientCtx.Codec.UnmarshalJSON(out.Bytes(), &result))
+
+			if tc.expectEmpty {
+				s.Require().Equal(0, len(result.Txs))
+			} else {
+				s.Require().NotEqual(0, len(result.Txs))
+				s.Require().NotNil(result.Txs[0])
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func (s *IntegrationTestSuite) TestCLISendGenerateSignAndBroadcast() {
 	val1 := s.network.Validators[0]