Duties in Queensland
Find out about transfer (stamp) duty, insurance duty, vehicle registration duty, landholder duty, additional foreign acquirer duty, corporate trustee duty and more.
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- Additional foreign acquirer duty (AFAD) Understand when extra duty applies to AFAD residential land.
- Concessions for homes Learn about the 4 types of home concessions for transfer (stamp) duty.
- Public rulings and practice directions Browse our library of public rulings and practice directions.
- Lodging returns for insurance duty Find out about insurance duty returns and how to lodge them.
Frequently asked questions
There are exemptions from paying transfer (stamp) duty, vehicle registration duty and insurance duty in certain circumstances.
There are also concessions that reduce the amount of transfer duty payable. For example, if you are buying a home to live in, a concession might remove some of the duty.
If you’re registered with us as a charitable institution, you might be eligible to claim an exemption.
If you believe you are eligible for a refund of transfer (stamp) duty, you may need to request a reassessment first. Read our instructions about reassessing transfer duty.
Contact us to request a refund of vehicle registration duty within 60 days of paying.
The best way to work out how much transfer duty you have to pay is to use the estimator or calculator.
You can also:
- read about the factors that affect how transfer duty is calculated
- refer to the transfer duty rates and the home concession rates.
If you’re a registered self assessor you may be able to delete draft or duplicate transactions online. If you delete a draft transaction by mistake, send an email to selfassessment@treasury.qld.gov.au.
Some changes to draft PEXA transactions have to be done in the ELNO workspace.
See the news hub for educational webinars and other information for self assessors.