ACT stamp duty calculator

$22,158 for an owner-occupier on the ACT Revenue Office's 2026-27 rates (as at 10 October 2026) and $25,150 for an investor. An eligible buyer under the Home Buyer Concession Scheme pays nothing, at any price, from 1 July 2026.

Owner-occupiers pay 0.28% on the first $260,000, rising to $33,958 plus 6.4% between $1,000,000 and $1,455,000, and a flat 4.54% of the whole value above $1,455,000 (2026-27 rates, unchanged from 2025-26). An $845,000 Canberra home pays $24,813; investors pay the higher non-owner-occupier rates, $27,805 at that price.

Not if they qualify for the Home Buyer Concession Scheme. From 1 July 2026 the scheme has no income test and no property value cap: an eligible buyer pays $0 duty on a home or vacant land. You need not be a first home buyer, but no buyer or partner can have owned property in the last five years, every buyer must be 18 or over, and one must live in the home for 12 months (ACT Revenue Office).

Not on duty: the ACT charges no foreign purchaser surcharge on conveyance duty. Foreign owners of residential land instead pay a foreign ownership surcharge on land tax of 0.75% a year of the average unimproved value, an ongoing cost rather than a purchase cost.

The ACT is gradually phasing out conveyance duty (the upfront tax on property purchase) and replacing it with higher general rates (an annual property tax). The 20-year transition started in 2012 and is intended to remove duty progressively. Buyers in 2026 still pay duty at the rates above.

ACT conveyance duty is payable within 14 days after the date of completion (settlement). Your conveyancer or solicitor typically arranges payment to the ACT Revenue Office as part of the settlement workflow.