QLD stamp duty calculator

How Queensland transfer duty is calculated

This stamp duty calculator for QLD works out your 2026–27 transfer duty — including the home concession, both first home buyer concessions, and foreign buyer duty. Every QLD stamp duty rate is taken straight from the official schedules.

Queensland charges transfer duty per $100, or part of $100, of the dutiable value — so a value of $500,050 is dutied as if it were $500,100. Which schedule applies depends on how you'll use the property. These are the official QLD stamp duty rates for 2026–27; the stamp duty concession for owner-occupiers (the "home concession") is a separate, cheaper schedule rather than a discount.

First home buyer concessions in 2026

Buying an established home, the first home concession wipes out duty entirely up to $700,000, then tapers in $10,000 bands until it reaches nil at $800,000:

Exemptions this calculator does not model

The home and first-home concessions above are computed from Queensland’s published schedule and pinned by tests to the Queensland Revenue Office’s own worked examples. Several other exemptions exist and none of them is modelled here, because they turn on facts a calculator cannot see: a transfer between spouses or de facto partners, property passing through a deceased estate, a transfer ordered on the breakdown of a relationship, a family farm, or a concession card.

Whether any of those applies to you, and on what conditions, is a question for the Queensland Revenue Office. We do not guess at eligibility rules we have not verified, so the figure above assumes none of them applies.

Worked examples

• $500,000 owner-occupied home. Home concession rates: $3,500 on the first $350,000, then $3.50 per $100 on the remaining $150,000 = $8,750 (an investor would pay $15,925).
• $730,000 first home (established). Home-rate duty $18,700 minus the $12,145 first home concession = $6,555 — the Queensland Revenue Office's own worked example.
• $900,000 brand-new first home. Contract after 1 May 2025 = $0 transfer duty.

The same price, in every state

Duty is the one purchase cost that changes completely with the border, and the gap between the dearest and the cheapest jurisdiction on an identical price is routinely tens of thousands. This moves with the calculator above.

QLD ranks #2 of 8 for owner-occupier duty at $750,000, cheapest first.

Whole dollars. First home buyer concessions are excluded here because eligibility differs by state and by buyer; the calculator above applies Queensland's.

Stamp duty on a $400,000 to $1m house in QLD — quick answers

Every figure below is produced by the same tested engine as the calculator above (first home buyers purchasing a new home pay $0 at any of these prices):

What counts as dutiable value — and when you pay

Dutiable value is the higher of what you pay and the property's market value — so a bargain family sale is still dutied at market value. It includes the land and anything fixed to it, and GST where it applies. Your documents must be lodged within 30 days of the liability arising — usually the day the contract is signed or becomes unconditional — so that deadline can fall well before settlement. Budget for it with the rest of your upfront costs, alongside your deposit and, if your deposit is under 20%, lenders mortgage insurance.