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Significant new Victorian laws impacting land tax, windfall gains tax and vacant residential land tax

Significant new Victorian laws impacting land tax, windfall gains tax and vacant residential land tax

A new prohibition on adjustments for land tax and windfall gains tax and a significant broadening of the vacant residential...

Property Law, Tax Law

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How to challenge a rental determination for a retail lease?

How to challenge a rental determination for a retail lease?

Have you recently received a rental determination for your retail lease that you believe is unfair or incorrect? The...

Property Law

19 • 09 • 23

Attention to detail is critical in retail/commercial lease rent review mechanisms

Attention to detail is critical in retail/commercial lease rent review mechanisms

Recent VCAT decisions have highlighted that clauses included in commercial and retail leases in Victoria in relation to rent...

Property Law

09 • 06 • 23

Demolition clauses in commercial leases

Demolition clauses in commercial leases – is yours legally enforceable?

A recent VCAT decision has highlighted the importance for Victorian landlords / developers of understanding their rights...

Property Law

27 • 04 • 23

Tips for developers to reduce risk in off-the-plan developments

10 tips for developers to minimise settlement risk in off-the-plan sales

With changing market conditions, including higher interest rates, increased construction costs and softening property prices,...

Property Law

26 • 09 • 22

Marketing materials provided by developers must reflect a realisable construction

Courts cautionary warning to developers

A developer told a couple their off-the-plan unit would not be built as promised. The couple had purchased a unit in South...

Property Law

03 • 06 • 22

Electronic document execution and virtual meeting options now enshrined in law

Corporations law embraces technology

The electronic signing of documents by companies and the conduct of shareholders’ meetings via electronic means is now...

Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Property Law

02 • 03 • 22

Victoria’s Commercial Tenancy Relief Scheme extended to March 2022

Commercial Tenancy Relief Scheme extended in Victoria… again

On the very day the Victorian Commercial Tenancy Relief Scheme (‘CTRS’) was scheduled to end (15 January 2022), the...

Property Law

18 • 01 • 22

Victoria’s new Windfall Gains Tax

What you need to know about Victoria’s new ‘Windfall Gains Tax’

As part of the Victorian Budget 2021/22, a new property tax, the windfall gains tax (WGT), will be applied to land...

Property Law, Tax Law

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