Property Tax Calculator (Australia)

This calculator adds up the annual cost of holding an Australian property: the council rates you enter, plus land tax if you own an investment property. It does not look up a state tax schedule — you enter your own land tax figure from your assessment or your state revenue office's estimator, and the calculator totals it with your council rates.

Council rates and land tax are totalled exactly as you enter them, so accuracy depends on the figures you provide. This calculator does not apply a state land tax schedule — land tax is charged on a progressive scale against all the land you hold in a state, which cannot be derived from one property, so get your figure from your land tax assessment or your state revenue office's own estimator.

Because a single, correct number can't be derived from one property's value. Land tax is assessed on the total taxable land you hold in that state, on a progressive scale with a threshold and marginal rate, and the scales, surcharges and exemptions differ in every state. Publishing a guessed figure would be less useful than asking for your real one.

No. This calculator only totals land tax and council rates for an existing or planned property; it doesn't model first-home buyer stamp duty or grant concessions. Use the First Home Buyer Calculator or Stamp Duty Calculator for those.

It includes council rates, since you enter them directly. It does not include water, electricity or other utility charges — those should be considered separately.