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Register for a webinar to learn how to prepare and lodge your 2025 payroll tax annual return. Read more

The Queensland Government has announced proposed changes to the $30,000 first home owner grant. Read more

When you buy your first new home you might be eligible for a full duty concession. Find out more

Queensland Government - Queensland Revenue Office
Queensland Government - Queensland Revenue Office

We manage state taxes.

This helps grow our economy and improve the wellbeing of all Queenslanders.

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Payroll tax annual return webinars 2025
Register for a webinar to learn how to prepare and lodge your 2025 payroll tax annual return.
13 June 2025
Proposed changes to the first home owner grant
The Queensland Government has announced proposed changes to the $30,000 first home owner grant.
9 June 2025
New and updated rulings on home concessions
The Commissioner has updated public rulings and issued new practice directions on transfer duty home concessions.
2 May 2025
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Frequently asked questions

If you’re buying your first home to live in—and it’s a new home—you might be eligible for a full transfer (stamp) duty concession. This means that if you meet the requirements, you won’t pay duty on your first home.

  • Your contract (or arrangement) for your new home must be dated 1 May 2025 or later.
  • There is no value cap for the home and residential land attributed to the home.

If you’re buying your first home to live in, you might be eligible for a first home owner grant as well as a transfer duty home concession.

You may be eligible for the first home owner grant if you build a detached dwelling (e.g. granny flat, tiny home) on a relative’s land.

The total value of the transaction must be less than $750,000.

You’ll need to provide certain documents with your application, including a statement from the relative and evidence of the value of the part of the land on which you have the right to build your detached dwelling.

Read more about building on a relative’s land.

If your land (or part of it) is your primary place of residence, then a land tax exemption may apply.

You may receive this exemption without having to apply for it. If we have sufficient information that land you own is being used as your home, we’ll send you a notice about the exemption that has been applied and the date of effect.

Otherwise, land tax exemptions are not automatic—you must apply for them. For land with joint owners, each owner wanting to claim an exemption must apply separately.

Read more about land tax exemptions.

If someone else was driving your car or you were driving a vehicle registered to someone else when an offence was committed, you can request to transfer the fine to the responsible person (i.e. nominate another driver).

You have 28 days from the fine issue date to do this and you should act quickly.

There are 2 ways to transfer a fine:

  • online (camera-detected fines only)
  • by statutory declaration.

Not all fines can be transferred (e.g. handwritten fines and SPER enforcement orders).

Read about how to transfer a fine.