Australian stamp duty rates — what we publish

Stamp duty is set state by state, and the schedules differ enough that you can't sensibly borrow one state's numbers for another. We publish a schedule only where we hold one we've sourced and dated. Where we haven't, we say so rather than putting up a page that can't answer your question.

• New South Wales (NSW) — full schedule, concessions and effective dates published.
• Victoria (VIC) — not published yet. We hold no verified VIC schedule, so we do not publish one.
• Queensland (QLD) — not published yet. We hold no verified QLD schedule, so we do not publish one.
• Western Australia (WA) — not published yet. We hold no verified WA schedule, so we do not publish one.
• South Australia (SA) — not published yet. We hold no verified SA schedule, so we do not publish one.
• Tasmania (TAS) — not published yet. We hold no verified TAS schedule, so we do not publish one.
• Australian Capital Territory (ACT) — not published yet. We hold no verified ACT schedule, so we do not publish one.
• Northern Territory (NT) — not published yet. We hold no verified NT schedule, so we do not publish one.

If your state isn't published yet, please don't use a published schedule as a stand-in — go straight to your own state or territory revenue office. Getting this wrong costs thousands at settlement, and a near-enough figure isn't worth having.

Why we'd rather publish nothing

It would be easy to spin up eight pages and fill the gaps with figures scraped from somewhere. Plenty of sites do. We think that's worse than an honest blank: a stamp duty page that looks authoritative and quietly carries an out-of-date bracket will cost someone real money on settlement day, and they'd have no way of knowing.

So the rule is simple. A schedule goes up when we have the revenue office source, the effective date and the date we last checked it — all three, on the page, where you can see them. Anything short of that stays off the site until it isn't.

Work out your own numbers

For a NSW purchase, the NSW stamp duty calculator gives you the duty in a couple of seconds, concession included. If you want the whole settlement-day picture — duty, LMI, conveyancing, government fees and the ongoing costs — the full buying cost calculator brings it together, and our suburb breakdowns have it already worked out for popular Sydney suburbs.