Your comprehensive guide to property duties and taxes in Victoria, and all in just one-hour. You will cover land tax, stamp duty, GST and the vacant residential land tax. The property lawyer’s essential viewing.
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
1.00pm to 2.00pm
Real Property, Land Subdivision, and Changes of Mind: The Tax and GST Pressure Points
- Capital vs revenue: Distinguishing mere realisation, business activity, and profit-making schemes
- Change of purpose: When property becomes trading stock and CGT Event K4 consequences
- Recent case law: Bowerman and Morton illustrating the capital/revenue boundary
- GST pressure points – enterprise vs private use, registration thresholds, and Division 129 adjustments
- Practical takeaways and ATO examples – evidence of intention, consistent treatment, and proactive tax planning
Presented by Neil Brydges, Principal Lawyer, Sladen Legal and Kseniia Gasiuk, Associate, Sladen Legal
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on VIC legislation
Chair:
Richard Brooks, Consultant, Ashurst; Recommended Leasing Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2024
Presenters
Kseniia Gasiuk, Associate, Sladen LegalAs an Associate in Sladen Legal’s Business Law Team, Kseniia focuses on tax-related matters, assisting clients in achieving their business and taxation objectives through strategic, timely, and innovative solutions. Holding a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Queensland and a Juris Doctor from Bond University, she is currently pursuing a Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne, specialising in tax law. Kseniia is a Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) and member of The Tax Institute. Her expertise extends across direct and indirect tax, including the taxation of trusts, corporate tax, M&A, international tax, and Division 7A. Before joining Sladen Legal, she gained valuable experience in Queensland as a commercial and property lawyer, advising on business sales and acquisitions, commercial property contracts, covenants, easements, franchising, leasing, retirement villages, and strata title developments. Her background enables practical and client-focused legal advice in complex tax matters.
Richard Brooks, Consultant, Ashurst
Richard Brooks is a consultant in Ashurst's real estate practice. Richard has a broad real estate practice, including acting for REITs and other institutional property owners, developers and corporate and government real estate occupiers, and acting on real estate aspects of financing, M&A, infrastructure and energy and resources projects. Richard is experienced in acting on commercial property leasing (for landlords and tenants), sale and lease backs, real estate investment and real estate development. Richard is listed in Best Lawyers Australia 2025 in Real Property Law, Leasing Law and Government Practice.
Neil Brydges, Principal, Sladen Legal
Neil is a Principal Lawyer in the business law area, with a particular focus on taxation advice and disputes. Taxation law is a complex area. Neil’s aim is to provide technical expertise to clients, commercially applied and in a friendly and approachable manner. Neil’s practice involves advice, audits, disputes, and transactions. The client mix includes both family groups and business enterprises. Neil also regularly assists professional advisors, including tax agents, accountants and financial advisors, to understand complex legal issues and help them to better assist their own clients. Neil is a Chartered Tax Advisor with The Tax Institute and accredited as a specialist in taxation law with the Law Institute of Victoria. Since 2019 Neil has been named one of Australia’s “Best Lawyers” in the practice of tax law by “Best Lawyers”. Neil has also been recognised in Doyles Guide as a tax lawyer since 2021.
This seminar is part of a series
Property Transactions Guide in Victoria: Risky Ready Lunch Series
Be risk ready for your property transactions. Property lawyers are facing an increasingly complex landscape, with climate risk obligations redesigning disclosure, insurance and development approvals, owners corporation disputes escalating, and growing pressure from tax and GST changes. This focused lunchtime series, CREATED for busy practitioners, explores the most pressing property law issues shaping Victorian practice and gives you the practical strategies to manage escalating legal and tax risks effectively, provide stronger client advice, and protect your practice against hidden dangers.
Description
Attend and earn 2 CPD units in Substantive Law
If you register for the full series as a live online product after the date of an individual session, you will be sent the recording for the sessions that have passed. Alternatively, you can register for individual sessions by following the links below.
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