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- If I buy residential property, what taxes, duties and benefits are involved?
- First Home Owner Grant
- Understanding the First Home Owner Grant
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- Applying for the First Home Owner Grant
- Approved agents for the First Home Owner Grant
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- Repay the First Home Owner Grant
- Objections for First Home Owner Grant
- Appeals for First Home Owner Grant
- Land transfer (stamp) duty
- Understanding land transfer (stamp) duty
- Land transfer (stamp) duty calculator
- Pay your land transfer duty assessment notice
- Dutiable value of a property
- Understanding the dutiable value of a property
- Valuation of land for duty purposes
- Fixtures and duty
- Retirement villages and dutiable value
- Water entitlements
- Concessions, exemptions and waivers
- Spouse and partner exemption
- Charities duty exemption
- Apply for a duty exemption for charities
- Exemption for a transfer to a qualifying person with a disability
- Principal place of residence duty concession
- Principal place of residence (PPR) concession
- Apply for a principal place of residence (PPR) duty concession
- First home buyers
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- First home owner with family exemption or concession
- Apply for a first home owner with family duty exemption or concession
- First home buyer relief after family violence
- Off-the-plan duty concession
- Understanding the off-the-plan duty concession
- Strata apartments and townhouses temporary concession
- Apply for an off-the-plan concession
- Pensioner and concession cardholder duty reduction
- Pensioner land transfer (stamp) duty calculator
- Pensioner and concession cardholder duty reduction (contracts signed on or after 1 July 2023)
- Pensioner and concession cardholder duty reduction (contracts signed before 1 July 2023)
- Approved Commonwealth concession cards
- Apply for a pensioner duty exemption or concession
- Farms
- Family farm exemption
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- Apply for a young farmer duty exemption or concession
- Residential property up to $1 million
- Concession or exemption for City of Melbourne residential property transactions
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- Waiver for residential property transactions of up to $1 million
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- Evidentiary Requirements Manual
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- Exemption for special disability trusts
- Foreign purchasers of property
- Understanding foreign purchaser additional duty
- Foreign purchaser - frequently asked questions
- Foreign purchaser additional duty and discretionary trusts
- Foreign purchaser status checklist
- Apply for an exemption from the foreign purchaser additional duty
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- Lodge and pay duty under lease provisions
- Landholder duty
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- Land holdings
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- Understanding your land tax assessment
- Example of land tax calculation
- Do I have to pay land tax?
- Exemptions and concessions for land tax
- Discount for build-to-rent developments
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- Principal place of residence
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- Apply for a principal place of residence exemption from land tax
- Changes to your principal place of residence exemption
- Exemption for construction or renovation of a principal place of residence (PPR)
- Respond to a land tax principal place of residence investigation
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- Primary production land exemption
- Apply for a primary production land exemption
- Greater Melbourne and urban zones
- Other exemptions
- Less common exemptions and concessions
- Charitable organisations
- Apply for a charitable land tax exemption
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- Absentee owner surcharge
- Understanding the absentee owner surcharge
- Do I have to pay the absentee owner surcharge?
- Notify us of your absentee owner status
- Absentee individuals
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- Apply for an exemption from the absentee owner surcharge
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- Absentee trusts
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- Complete a declaration that premises are not short stay accommodation
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- Pay the short stay levy
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- Changes of use of property
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- Growth areas infrastructure contribution
- Understanding the growth areas infrastructure contribution
- GAIC land and administration
- What type of certificate should I apply for?
- Apply for a GAIC certificate
- Lodge a GAIC acquisition statement
- Lodge a GAIC notification of a building permit application
- Exemptions, no liability and exclusions
- Exemptions from GAIC
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- Apply for a GAIC exemption
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- Defer or pay GAIC
- Deferral of your GAIC
- Elect to defer GAIC
- GAIC deferral thresholds, indexation and interest
- Work-in-kind agreements
- Staged payment arrangements
- GAIC staged payment interest calculator
- Make a staged GAIC payment
- Make a GAIC payment
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- Metropolitan planning levy
- Understanding the metropolitan planning levy
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- Apply for a metropolitan planning levy certificate
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- Pay your metropolitan planning levy
- Insurance duty
- Understanding insurance duty
- Abolition of duty on business insurance premiums
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- Update your details as an insurer
- Lodge a return as an insurer
- Lodge a return as an insured person
- Pay your insurance duty
- Issues arising from the coronavirus pandemic for life insurers
- Wagering and betting tax
- Understanding wagering and betting tax
- Calculating net wagering revenue
- Lodge a return and make a payment
- Register for the wagering and betting tax
- Pay your wagering and betting tax
- Wagering and betting tax grouping
- Object to a wagering and betting tax assessment
- Keno tax
- Understanding keno tax
- Lodge a keno tax monthly return and make a payment
- Register for keno tax
- Cancel your keno tax registration
- Livestock duty
- Understanding livestock duty
- Approved livestock agents
- Register to become an approved agent
- Livestock duty calculator
- Lodge a return as an approved agent
- Lodge statement as vendor or owner’s agent
- Pay your livestock duty
- Victorian liquor subsidy
- Understanding the Victorian liquor subsidy
- Apply for a liquor subsidy
- Victorian Liquor Subsidy Guidelines
- Water and sewerage rebate
- Understanding the water and sewerage rebate
- Apply for the water and sewerage rebate
- Motor vehicle duty
- Understanding motor vehicle duty
- Motor vehicle duty calculator
- Exemptions and concessions
- Drive-away deals 2025-26
- Licensed motor car traders
- Apply for an exemption, concession or refund from motor vehicle duty
- Lodge a change of use
- Pay motor vehicle duty
- Apply for a licensed motor car trader (LMCT) duty refund
- Motor vehicle duty objections
- Commercial passenger vehicle service levy
- Understanding the commercial passenger vehicle service levy
- Driver guide to levy payment
- Do I have to register for the commercial passenger vehicle service levy?
- Register for the commercial passenger vehicle service levy
- Lodge a return and make a payment
- Pay your commercial passenger vehicle service levy
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- Renting out a parking space
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- Change your owner/operator details
- Pay your congestion levy
- Calculating the congestion levy
- Calculate your levy (private car parks)
- Calculate your levy (public car parks)
- Exemptions and concessions
- Understanding exemptions and concessions
- Claim a levy exemption
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- Congestion levy concession for the 2021 levy year (COVID-19 restrictions)
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- Business lodgement obligations and guide
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Do I have to pay the absentee owner surcharge?
Check if the absentee owner surcharge applies to you.