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Q & A :What is Commonwealth Annual Vacancy Fee (AVF)?

A: The Commonwealth Annual Vacancy Fee is introduced by the Australian Government for foreign owners

A: The Commonwealth Annual Vacancy Fee is introduced by the Australian Government for foreign owners, as defined by Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 of residential dwellings. Under the legislation, foreign owners of residential dwellings in Australian are required to pay an annual vacancy fee if their dwelling is not residentially occupied or rented out for more than six months (183 days) in a year. The reason why we named it as “Commonwealth” AVF is to distinguish from the similar tax/fee applied in the State of Victoria.


A dwelling is considered residentially occupied if the owner or a relative of the owner genuinely occupied the dwelling as a residence, or the dwelling was genuinely occupied as a residence subject to lease or license for minimum terms of 30 days.


The vacancy fee will be the same amount as the foreign investment application fee you paid at the time you submitted your foreign investment application. At current stage, the FIRB application fee is $5,600 for price of the acquisition is $1 million or less, $11,300 for price of the acquisition is more than $1 million and less than $2 million and it will usually will increase for each $1 million increase on the price of acquisition.


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