GST and Property

Overview
A guide to practical issues with the implementation of GST on property sales, purchases, developments and leases
Many people are confused by the GST requirements around property.
This session looks at the rules regarding GST for property examining the many exemptions and concessions that exist and how it’s all too easy to assume that one of them applies to your situation…only to discover too late that it doesn’t!
Amongst the topics to be covered:
- The GST treatment of different types of property transaction, including residential and commercial sales.
- The 5-year rule for new residential premises
- The registration requirements
- Subdivision and development – is an enterprise being carried on?
- The margin scheme
- The going concern exemption
- Leasing and GST input tax credit clawback
- When does GST withholding apply to a sale?
- GST and farmland
Learning Outcomes:
Attendees can expect to complete the session with a detailed understanding of the GST rules that apply to property transactions.
Suited to:
This session is suited to all accountants and tax practitioners with property owning clients amongst their client base.
This On Demand recording Includes:
- Recording of the Live Webinar, which can be viewed multiple times, for as long as required
- Presenters contact details for follow up questions
- CPD Quiz
- CPD Certificate
- CPD Report – Logged automatically
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Verbatim Transcript, with Searchability
- Supporting Documentation
Course syllabus
3 lessons
- Video – GST and PropertyVideo
- Feedback Survey QuestionsSurvey
- Knowledge QuizTest
Your presenter
Mark ChapmanH&R Block
has been Director of Tax Communications with H&R Block Australia since 2015. He also writes regularly on tax issues for numerous media outlets and presents on topical tax topics at seminars and other events. He broadcasts frequently on radio and television and writes a regular column for Money Magazine and Yahoo7 Finance. As a tax practitioner in the UK, he occupied a number of senior positions before moving to Australia in 2007 to join the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) as a senior director.
Mark is also the author of Life and Taxes: A Look at Life Through Tax and has edited and updated the second through to the seventh editions of Australian Practical Tax Examples, published between 2019 and 2025, by Wolters Kluwer CCH Australia.