Duties in Queensland

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.

Before we can issue a refund, we need to reassess the duty liability.

If you believe you are eligible for a refund of transfer (stamp) duty, you may need to apply for an exemption or concession or request a reassessment first.

• Read our instructions on reassessing transfer duty.
• Find out about reassessing vehicle registration duty.
• Read about reassessing insurance duty.

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.