Stamp Duty on Your Next Property Purchase
One duty head, one calculation, one deadline — and all three have to be right before you sign. A residential purchase in Hong Kong now attracts ad valorem duty only, the fixed HK$100 band reaches HK$4,000,000, and marginal relief matters enormously at every band boundary. We compute your exact liability before the provisional agreement and stamp it on time.
Stamp Duty Planning Specialist
One duty head, one calculation, one deadline — and all three have to be right before you sign. A residential purchase in Hong Kong now attracts ad valorem duty only, the fixed HK$100 band reaches HK$4,000,000, and marginal relief matters enormously at every band boundary. We compute your exact liability before the provisional agreement and stamp it on time.
⚠ The Duty Is Fixed by the Agreement You Sign — Not by What You Do Afterwards
Stamp duty crystallises on the provisional agreement for sale and purchase. Restructuring after signing — adding a co-owner, switching into a company, changing who takes title — does not undo the original charge and normally triggers a second, separate charge on the onward transfer. Since 28 February 2024 there is at least only one duty head to get right on a residential purchase: ad valorem duty. The window to stamp is short, and late stamping carries penalties that increase with the length of the delay.
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Band Boundaries and Marginal Relief
Ad valorem duty steps up in bands. Marginal relief caps the jump at each boundary, but agreeing a price slightly above a boundary without checking can cost more in duty than the extra price you paid.
Advice Built on the Repealed Regime
Calculators, brochures and some advisers still add Buyer's Stamp Duty or the old Scale 1 rates to a residential purchase. Those charges were abolished for transactions on or after 28 February 2024, and budgeting for them distorts your whole affordability picture.
Missing the Stamping Deadline
The agreement must be stamped within the statutory window. Penalties for late stamping rise with the length of the delay, and an unstamped instrument is not receivable in evidence in civil proceedings.
Ownership Decided Too Late
Whether you buy personally, jointly, through a company or through a trust drives your ongoing property tax and profits tax position for the whole holding period — and the decision has to be made before the provisional agreement is signed.
Für wen dieser Service ist
Buying your first Hong Kong home and wanting the duty computed correctly and stamped on time the first time.
Expats, mainland and overseas purchasers — Buyer's Stamp Duty no longer applies to your purchase, and we confirm what your ad valorem cost actually is.
Corporate and trustee buyers weighing the duty and the ongoing tax cost of holding through an entity rather than personally.
Purchasers who would previously have faced the higher Scale 1 rates and need their real current exposure quantified.
Was wir abdecken
Pre-Purchase Duty Computation
We compute the exact ad valorem duty on your intended consideration, applying the correct band and marginal relief, before you commit to a price.
Purchase Structure Comparison
We compare buying personally, jointly, through a company or through a trust on total duty plus ongoing property and profits tax over your intended holding period.
Legacy Duty Check on Earlier Purchases
If you bought before 28 February 2024, we check whether BSD, NRSD or SSD was correctly charged and whether a refund or remission ground is available.
Stamping, Adjudication & Payment
We prepare and stamp all property instruments within the statutory deadline and handle adjudication where the Stamp Office queries the value.
Einfach, effizient, professionell
Buyer Status Assessment
Confirm residency and existing holdings, and identify whether any earlier purchase of yours falls in the pre-abolition period.
1 dayDuty Calculation
Compute the ad valorem duty on the proposed consideration with marginal relief applied at the relevant band boundary.
1 dayLawful Stamp Duty Minimisation
Identify the legitimate options in your circumstances — band boundary effects, ownership split, and transaction sequencing.
1-2 daysCompletion & Stamping
Prepare the instruments and attend to Stamp Office adjudication and payment inside the statutory deadline.
At completionEchte Ergebnisse für echte Kunden
First-home purchaser — band boundary renegotiated
- Price agreed slightly above a band boundary
- Duty modelled either side of the boundary before the provisional agreement
- Consideration renegotiated back below the boundary
- Instrument stamped inside the statutory deadline
Pre-2024 buyer — BSD refund after obtaining HKPR
- HKD 9M residential purchase in 2022, before the abolition
- BSD paid at 15%: HKD 1,350,000
- Hong Kong permanent residency obtained in 2024
- Refund application submitted to the Stamp Office and approved
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