Foreign transfer duty: duty requirements

What you need to provide in relation to foreign transfer duty.

Foreign buyers duty imposes additional duty of 7 per cent on the dutiable value for certain transactions and landholder acquisitions involving foreign persons or entities acquiring residential property in Western Australia. You must complete a declaration form even if you're not a foreign person.

  • Use the foreign transfer duty declaration form to declare whether each purchaser or transferee is a foreign person. Each person acquiring an interest in land in WA must submit this form.
  • Use the foreign landholder duty declaration form to declare whether each person acquiring interest in a landholder is a foreign person. Each person acquiring an interest in a landholder in WA must submit this form.

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