What gets written in a trust deed is not always what the settlor and the trustee meant to say or what they asked to have drafted. This sort of mistake in a legal document, any type of deed or contract, can be fixed by a process called rectification. Rectification is[…]
The State Government in this year’s State Budget has announced new measures will be enacted to extend the current stamp duty exemption that applies on the transfer of certain family farm land to include land held in family companies. Family farm transfers to or from family companies in addition transfers[…]
If the Budget Measures Bill 2017 is passed as announced by the South Australian Parliament this afternoon the state will join many others in imposing a Stamp Duty surcharge on foreign purchasers of residential property. A foreign individual, company or trustee that acquires a residential property in South Australia will[…]