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The Western Australian Land Information Authority operates under the business name of Landgate. [2]Formerly known as the Department of Land Information (DLI), the Department of Land Administration (DOLA) and the Department of Lands and Surveys (DOLS), it is the statutory authority responsible for property and land information in Western Australia.
Department of Land Administration - (DOLA) - 1 July 1986 - 1 July 2003 Department of Land Information - (DLI) - 1 July 2003 - 1 January 2007 Landgate (officially the Western Australian Land Information Authority ) - 1 January 2007 [ 3 ]
The MRTS is a special purpose tax recommended by Gordon Stephenson's report, and introduced in 1959. [1] The MRS is funded by a levy on taxable land value above $300,000 excluding primary residences. [2] This tax is collected by the Department of Finance but falls wholly under the control of the WAPC.
WALIS was established by the Western Australian (WA) Government in 1981. It is responsible for coordinating the discovery of, and access to, location-based or geographic data generated by WA Government agencies. WALIS achieves this through partnerships between organisations, projects, committees and working groups; coordinated through Landgate.
The land district is the highest level of land division actively used in Western Australian land titles, and has been in use in some form since the earliest days of the Swan River Colony, although only achieved statutory recognition with the enactment of section 7 the Land Act 1898.
South Australia was the first Australian state to introduce a land tax, based on the unimproved capital value of land, in 1884. [6] [7] In 1910, George Allen (first secretary to the Treasury) founded the Land Tax Office to service land taxes at the federal level as a form of wealth tax and as a means to break up large tracts of underutilised land.
The associated land valuations were contentious with more than 1,800 appeals and objections received by the middle of 1913. [4] In his first year, commissioner McKay had underneath him 105 tax officers, assessed approximately 15,000 land tax returns and collected £1.3 million to £1.4 million.
Real estate appraisal, property valuation or land valuation is the process of assessing the value of real property (usually market value). Real estate transactions often require appraisals because every property has unique characteristics.