RevenueWA eNewsletters

Privacy and personal information

You may have noticed we now provide a privacy statement every time we request personal information from you. See the RevenueWA privacy and personal information webpage for details about how your personal information is handled.

Refresh your knowledge

We run regular webinars on topics relating to payroll tax, duties, land tax and the first home owner grant.  You may be eligible to receive CPD points for attending our webinars. See our Customer Education webpage for a description of what is covered in each webinar, dates and times of upcoming webinars, and links to register to attend webinars.

Payroll tax

We will complete the annual reconciliation process in mid-August.  Any calculations, adjustments and the due date for paying liabilities will appear on the Assessment Advice issued after 7 September.  Access your Assessment Advice from the left-hand menu in Revenue Online after logging in through RevenueWAConnect.

Duties

Housing Taxation Package - system update

The changes announced as part of the Housing Taxation Package in relation to the first home owner rate of duty and the off-the-plan duty concession are now able to be self-assessed through the Online Duties system. See information about the changes.

Eligible transactions that have been entered into and assessed since 12 March 2026 (for the off-the-plan concession) or 7 May 2026 (for the first home owner rate of duty) were assessed according to rates, thresholds and caps that applied before these dates. If the changes will result in a reduction of duty for a transaction that has been self-assessed, agents should take the following action:

If the transaction has settled - apply for a reassessment of duty and refund of the difference in duty through the Online Services Portal via RevenueWAConnect. You must provide a copy of the: 

• contract or transfer document
• foreign transfer duty declaration
• first home owner rate of duty application or off-the-plan concession application
• certificates of duty. 

If the transaction has not yet settled - modify the transaction within your Online Duties account and either select the updated first home owner rate of duty category or the off-the-plan concession scheme type. This will result in the amount of duty being recalculated for the transaction.

Recent changes in Online Duties

Certain deceased estate transactions and transactions made in accordance with a court order can be self-assessed for nominal duty, allowing you to immediately print a certificate of duty. This means you no longer need to assess these transactions at the public counter or lodge them with RevenueWA for a Commissioner’s assessment. 

Settlement agents can now transfer eligible transactions from another agent in Revenue Online without needing to transfer the transaction to RevenueWA for a Commissioner’s assessment. See instructions for submitting and approving a change of agent request and the Online Duties FAQs for eligible transactions and assistance with using this function.

Land tax

Assessment notices

We will start sending out land tax assessment notices in September. See our website for information about land tax assessments.

Register to receive your notice by email. You will need to provide the payment reference number from a previous assessment notice. See how to receive your notice by email.

2026-27 Housing Taxation Package

On 7 May 2026, the State Government announced changes relating to foreign transfer duty, the first home owner grant, and the first home owner rate of duty.  This followed an announcement on 12 March 2026 regarding changes to the off-the-plan duty concession.

The changes to increase the first home owner grant cap for homes south of the 26th parallel of South Latitude have now been applied. The remaining changes are subject to the Parliamentary process and updates to RevenueWA's systems. See our news article for further information.

Payroll tax annual reconciliation

Annual reconciliation for payroll tax is fast approaching. To help you prepare: 

• make sure you have logged in to RevenueWAConnect and set up multi-factor authentication (MFA)
• see our annual reconciliation web page and FAQs to learn about the information you must submit, and
• notify us of any changes to your registration or grouping status.

When accessing RevenueWAConnect for the first time, don’t use a new email address. 

• Enter the email address you have previously registered with Revenue Online. If you don't know which email address this is, please contact us on 08 9262 1300.
• See the RevenueWA Online Services System Requirements web page for information about how to log in to RevenueWAConnect and set up MFA.

Between 1 July and 21 July, use the End of Year Lodgment (EOYL) function in Revenue Online to: 

• lodge and pay any outstanding returns 
• make any necessary adjustments to previous monthly or quarterly returns
• lodge your Australian taxable wages
• declare the interstate taxable wages paid by group members if you are the designated group employer of an interstate group
• lodge your, or your group's, estimated taxable wages for the 2026-27 financial year. 

Online Duties - new self-assessment transactions

From 10 June 2026, certain deceased estate and family court order transactions can be self-assessed for nominal duty under a guided process, allowing you to immediately print a certificate of duty. This means you no longer need to assess these transactions at the public counter or lodge them with RevenueWA for a Commissioner’s assessment, saving you time and allowing you to pay duty in your monthly return.  Contact us on 9262 1113 or by web enquiry if you have any queries about these changes.

Only deceased estate transactions with an agreement in place can be settled via eConveyancing.  Other newly introduced self‑assessed transactions must be settled using paper transfers registered with Landgate.

Deceased estate transactions

Transfers, or agreements to transfer, dutiable property from the executor of a deceased estate to a beneficiary who is entitled to the property under the terms of the will can be self-assessed. These transactions will be chargeable with nominal duty if certain criteria are met.

See information about which deceased estate transactions are eligible for self-assessment.

Family Court Orders

Family Court Orders and transfers of dutiable property made in accordance with them can be self-assessed. The Family Court Order is exempt from duty and the corresponding transfers of land will be charged with nominal duty if certain criteria are met.  

• If the court order relates to multiple properties to be transferred to different persons, a separate assessment must be made for each person being transferred property.
• Agents representing different parties to a Family Court Order can each self-assess the court order in their own Online Duties account.

See information about which transactions made in accordance with a court order are eligible for self-assessment.

Training and support

We have replaced our Online Duties Transaction Guidelines document with web pages that make it easier for you to find the information you need to determine whether you can self-assess a transaction. See our new web content.

We will be running new webinars about how to assess these transactions in Revenue Online.  Details of the new webinars will be available soon on our Customer Education web page.

Certificates of land tax charges

From 1 July 2026, the fee to receive a Certificate of Land Tax Charges is increasing from $50.35 to $56. This is the first fee increase since 2018.  See our information for agents web page for details about how to apply for a certificate. 

CPD points for attending webinars

Many of our duties and first home owner grant webinars offer elective Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points for licensed real estate agents, settlement agents and property managers.

The description under each webinar topic includes details of how many points can be awarded for attendance. 

• Points can only be awarded once for the same topic within a CPD year.
• All eligible sessions are listed under the Department of Local Government, Industry Regulation and Safety (Consumer Protection) ‘Legal Requirements’ approved CPD topics.
  RevenueWA sessions only count towards the Legal Requirements category. 
• Contact our Training and Development team on customereducation@dtf.wa.gov.au if you have any questions about earning CPD points by attending RevenueWA webinars.

The following webinars scheduled in June, July and August offer CPD points: 

• Overview of transfer duty for deceased estates
• Transfer duty overview and the FHOG
• Introduction to foreign buyers duty
• First home owner grant and land tax

See our Customer Education web page for: 

• a description of each webinar
• webinar dates and times
• a link to register to attend each webinar.