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Contract Review Fees

Where you have indicated that you wish us to review your contract and section 32, we will review the documents, mark up the documents with highlights to draw your attention to important matters leaving comments where suitable and provide you with written advice bringing any matters of concern to your attention. Please note, we do not provide financial or taxation advice in respect to the consequences of the purchase. 

Our fees (GST incl) to review your contract and section 32 are additional to our fixed fee conveyancing fees and are determined by the length of the document and urgency as follows:

So that we can get started straight away, make payment of the relevant fee into our trust account (details below) and provide confirmation of payment to info@mcmanuslawyers.com.au

McManus & Co Lawyers Law Practice Trust Account

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Once the review is complete, we will issue you with an invoice for the review. By making payment to us, you hereby instruct and authorise us to withdraw the funds you have placed into our trust account to pay our invoice for our professional fees and any authorised disbursements.

Please provide your full details, as they appear on your passport, birth certificate or other official documents.

Foreign Purchaser Additional Duty

When you buy or acquire residential property as a foreign purchaser, you may have to pay foreign purchaser additional duty on the share of the property you acquire. 

A foreign purchaser includes a foreign corporation.

Foreign corporations include corporations incorporated:

• outside Australia;
• in Australia if a foreign natural person, another foreign corporation, or a trustee of a foreign trust has a controlling interest in those corporations.  

A foreign trust is a trust where a foreign natural person, foreign corporation or trustee of another foreign trust, has a substantial interest in the trust estate of that trust.

A substantial interest in a trust is when that person or entity either alone, or together with an associated person, or another foreign natural person, foreign corporation or the trustee of a foreign trust has:

• a beneficial interest of more than 50% of the capital of the estate of the foreign trust, or
• in the Commissioner's opinion, the capacity to determine or influence the outcome of the decisions about the administration and conduct of the trust, taking into account certain factors (such as the practical influence the person can exert in addition to any rights the person can enforce, and any practice or behaviour affecting the trustee’s administration and conduct of the trust, even if that practice or pattern of behaviour involves the breach of an agreement or breach of trust).

You are a foreign purchaser if you are not:

• A citizen or permanent resident of Australia;
• A New Zealand citizen with a Special Category Visa (Subclass 444).             

 Further information on additional duty and in which circumstances it will apply is avaialble at the SRO website here. 

Foreign Purchaser Additional Duty

When you buy or acquire residential property as a foreign purchaser, you may have to pay foreign purchaser additional duty on the share of the property you acquire. 

A foreign purchaser includes a foreign trust.

A foreign trust is a trust where a foreign natural person, foreign corporation or trustee of another foreign trust, has a substantial interest in the trust estate of that trust.

A substantial interest in a trust is when that person or entity either alone, or together with an associated person, or another foreign natural person, foreign corporation or the trustee of a foreign trust has:

• a beneficial interest of more than 50% of the capital of the estate of the foreign trust, or
• in the Commissioner's opinion, the capacity to determine or influence the outcome of the decisions about the administration and conduct of the trust, taking into account certain factors (such as the practical influence the person can exert in addition to any rights the person can enforce, and any practice or behaviour affecting the trustee’s administration and conduct of the trust, even if that practice or pattern of behaviour involves the breach of an agreement or breach of trust).

You are a foreign purchaser if you are not:

• A citizen or permanent resident of Australia;
• A New Zealand citizen with a Special Category Visa (Subclass 444).

Foreign corporations include corporations incorporated:

• outside Australia;
• in Australia if a foreign natural person, another foreign corporation, or a trustee of a foreign trust has a controlling interest in those corporations.               

 Further information on additional duty and in which circumstances it will apply is avaialble at the SRO website here.