Thomas Abraham

Feb 4, 2025 | mk.com.au | Thomas Abraham |Jenny Thame

Major revisions to the Victorian vacant residential land tax (VRLT) came into effect on 1 January 2025, with further changes to take effect in early 2026. The expansion of the VRLT regime makes it a vital consideration for Victorian landowners and investors moving forward. Vacant residential land tax is levied on taxable residential properties across Victoria which remain unoccupied for an aggregate period exceeding six months in any calendar year.

Jan 13, 2025 | mk.com.au | Thomas Abraham

The State Revenue Office of Victoria (SRO) will shortly be rolling out the 2025 Victorian land tax and vacant residential land tax (VRLT) assessments, but you don’t always have to accept its finding. There are many instances that warrant an objection to a land tax and vacant residential land tax assessment and as an expert in Victorian state tax laws, Thomas Abraham is well aware which ones are worth the fight.

Dec 16, 2024 | bloomberg.com | Thomas Abraham

Thailand will host an informal meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations this week to discuss the latest situation in strife-torn Myanmar and the way forward. The gathering of foreign ministers of interested member countries of the bloc known as Asean will also look at the implementation of the so-called Five-Point Consensus meant to help end the civil war that’s marked the military regime’s rule since a coup in 2021.

Nov 10, 2024 | mk.com.au | Thomas Abraham

If you own farmland in Victoria and have yet to start the farming process, you need to turn your attention to a recent land tax update out of the State Revenue Office (SRO). On 16 October 2024, the SRO published Revenue Ruling, LTA-006v2 (Updated Ruling) updating Revenue Ruling LTA-006 in relation to their position on the preparatory primary production exemption contained in section 68 of the Land Tax Act 2005 (Vic) (Act).

Oct 1, 2024 | theindiaforum.in | Thomas Abraham

As our memories of Covid-19 fade and we try and put behind us the deaths, the lockdowns, the disruptions, and the fear, it remains important to understand how this extraordinary event happened. Did the virus that killed between 15 million and 20 million people from the end of 2019 to the end of 2022 leak out of a laboratory in the central Chinese city of Wuhan? Was Covid-19 a man-made tragedy, rather than an act of nature?