Check and correct your land tax assessment details.
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Check your assessment
We issue land tax assessments annually. Depending on how you own land, you may receive more than one assessment.
Each assessment includes a Statement of Lands showing the land you owned at midnight on 31 December. You must review this information and notify us within 60 days of the issue date if anything is incorrect or missing. Read more about understanding your land tax assessment.
Checklist for review:
- Are the ownership details accurate (individual, joint, trustee, absentee)?
- Are all your properties listed correctly?
- Are any exemptions missing or no longer applicable?
- Is any land missing?
- Have you received multiple individual assessments for the same year?
- Have you received multiple assessments for the same trust for the same year?
- Does land held on trust appear incorrectly on your individual assessment?
- Is your absentee owner status correct?
If you find an issue, you must notify us within 60 days of the issue date of the assessment. You may be able to do this by updating details yourself using My Land Tax or you may need to contact us, depending on the change. Both options count as notification. If you do not notify us on time, penalty tax may apply.
You do not need to lodge an objection for most common changes.
Notify us of errors or omissions
Most common changes and updates can be made online via My Land Tax, including:
- updating your contact details
- removing land you do not own
- adding land that was not listed on your assessment
- applying for a new principal place of residence (PPR) exemption
- notifying us if you are renovating or constructing your PPR
- applying for other exemptions including:
- primary production land
- charitable organisations
- rooming houses
- municipal and public land
- residential care facilities and supported residential services
- residential services for people with disabilities
- retirement villages
- caravan parks
- conservation covenant.
For other changes and exemptions please contact us.
Absentee owner notifications
Your absentee owner status is based on your circumstances as at 31 December. If your status changes, for example, you become an absentee owner or return to live in Australia, you must notify us by 15 January of the following year. Read more about the absentee owner surcharge.
Formally object to your assessment
If you believe you have been incorrectly assessed, you can lodge an objection. This is a formal process and different from updating or correcting details. Before lodging an objection, check whether the issue can be resolved by updating your details or notifying us of an error.
Objecting to the site value
The Valuer-General determines the site value used to calculate your land tax. You must lodge an objection with us and we refer it to them for review. These objections must be lodged within 2 months of the issue date on your assessment notice.
Read more about objecting to the site value of your land.
Objecting to other aspects of your assessment
You can also lodge an objection to challenge the legal basis of the assessment. These objections must be lodged within 60 days of the issue date on your assessment notice.
Read more about land tax objections.
