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Ask your accountant to explain how to use merger with a unit trust to save stamp duty. When they look blankly at you then find a new accountant who knows property taxes and how to use a trust for property strategies. This stuff is specialised. Let me guess they setup the trust ?

IT DEPENDS.... There is a strategy where a human trustee beats a company trustee hands down. Can save tens of thousands in duty. Its a common law loophole. You cant beat personal advice.

Subdivision isn't a CGT event and doesn't define trading stock or an enterprise. The Trustee intent with use of each property is the key tax factor.

If the trust did a equity release and borrowed it could payout unitholder/s and some of their units redeemed. They might be able to use the $ for private purposes. They might incur a capital gain. Problem I see is the trustee is you. That will pose a loan concern. A structure problem...And a...