TAS stamp duty calculator

How Tasmania calculates property transfer duty

This stamp duty calculator for Tasmania applies the SRO's official transfer duty schedule. Important 2026–27 change: the 100% first home buyer exemption on established homes up to $750,000 ended on 30 June 2026 — first home buyers now pay standard duty.

Tasmania charges property transfer duty on the higher of the price and the market value, on a seven-bracket schedule with a $50 minimum, topping out at $4.50 per $100 above $725,000. There is no owner-occupier discount and — since 1 July 2026 — no first home buyer relief on established homes either: one schedule now covers everyone. Duty is payable within three months of the transfer; in practice your conveyancer attends to it at settlement.

The 2026–27 story is what isn't there any more. The 100% first-home exemption on established homes to $750,000 expired on 30 June 2026, which changed the numbers dramatically overnight — a $650,000 first home went from $0 to $24,622.50. What remains for first home buyers is the First Home Owner Grant on a new home, $20,000 for a 2026–27 contract if the home is completed within 24 months of it and $10,000 if not; foreign purchasers still add an 8% surcharge.

In the national picture Tasmania now sits mid-pack on the purchase and light on the holding: $18,247.50 of duty on a $500,000 home is less than SA or the NT charge at the same price but more than a concession-assisted buyer pays in most mainland states — and once you own, Tasmania's land tax only touches investment property from $125,000 of land value. The by-state comparison puts the same price through all eight jurisdictions if you're weighing a move across Bass Strait.

Exemptions and concessions

The calculator above models the TAS property transfer duty concessions that turn on who is buying and what they are buying — the ones you can pick in the form:

• All buyers — One schedule applies — including first home buyers, since 1 July 2026.

Those come from Tasmania’s published schedule, and the engine behind them is pinned by tests to the bracket figures in the published schedule.

Other exemptions exist that this calculator does not model, 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 is available in Tasmania, and on what conditions, is a question for SRO Tasmania. We do not guess at eligibility rules we have not verified, so the figure above assumes none of them applies to you.

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.

TAS ranks #4 of 8 for owner-occupier duty at $650,000, cheapest first.

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

Quick answers by price

Every figure comes from the same tested engine as the calculator — the official schedule, not an approximation. Buying with less than a 20% deposit? Add lenders mortgage insurance to your upfront costs.

Worked examples

• Any buyer, $500,000 house. $12,935 + $4.25 per $100 over $375,000 = $18,247.50.
• First home buyer, $650,000 established home. $24,622.50 — before 1 July 2026 this was $0. The exemption's end is the single biggest duty change in Tasmania in years.
• Foreign buyer, $600,000 property. $22,497.50 duty + $48,000 surcharge (8%) = $70,497.50.