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Answers

Transfer duty and first-home concessions

25 questions answered here, each from records read at the office that publishes them. The calculator behind them is Stamp duty.

How much stamp duty on a first or next home?

Six answers, on the same $750,000 home. The scales barely differ; the relief does.

  1. New South Wales · first home $365.46
  2. New South Wales · next home $28,302.46
  3. Victoria · first home $42,059.20
  4. Victoria · next home $42,059.20
  5. Queensland · first home $16,537
  6. Queensland · next home $29,925
  7. Western Australia · first home $24,825.20
  8. Western Australia · next home $30,341.20
  9. South Australia · first home $42,802
  10. South Australia · next home $42,802
  11. Tasmania · first home $29,359.34
  12. Tasmania · next home $29,359.34
  13. Australian Capital Territory · first home $657
  14. Australian Capital Territory · next home $19,865
  15. Northern Territory · first home $37,487
  16. Northern Territory · next home $37,487

Stamp duty in one state or another — what is the difference?

Three pairs, each on the same three prices.

  1. New South Wales or Victoria $41,694
  2. Victoria or Queensland $25,522
  3. New South Wales or Queensland $19,665
  4. New South Wales or Western Australia $24,460
  5. New South Wales or South Australia $42,437
  6. New South Wales or Tasmania $28,994
  7. New South Wales or the Australian Capital Territory $17,051
  8. New South Wales or the Northern Territory $37,122

Questions of their own

Written one at a time, because each turns on something the others do not.

  1. Can I get a refund on a first-home concession I did not claim?
Visa tax & Medicare exemption Take-home pay and the exemption on a temporary visa Stamp duty Transfer duty in every state and territory Take-home pay From the package offered to what actually lands