{"id":243060,"date":"2025-10-27T00:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243060\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:47:15","slug":"conditions-put-on-the-block-prize-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243060\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditions put on The Block prize money"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Block<\/a> can truly change people\u2019s lives, with the contestants winning hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars on the show.<\/p>\n

Off the back of the 2025 season<\/a>, the teams are walking away with nearly $750,000 shared between them \u2013 but there are conditions put on their prize money.<\/p>\n

\"\"Britt and Taz walked away as winners in 2025. (Credit: Nine)<\/p>\n

After pouring their hearts and souls into their homes over the course of the competition, many of the 2025 Blockheads were quite disappointed with the auction day results<\/a>, with the high reserve prices taking their toll.<\/p>\n

Western Australian couple Britt and Taz took home the win<\/a> with a total of $520,000 million in earnings (including $100,000 in prize money), followed by Sonny and Alicia<\/a> who won $120,000.<\/p>\n

The next highest amount was $109,999.10, taken home by Robby and Mat<\/a>, while Emma and Ben<\/a> and Han and Can<\/a>\u2018s houses both passed in.<\/p>\n

But do the contestants really get to take home their winnings in cold, hard cash? We answer your questions below.<\/p>\n

\"\"Contestants aren\u2019t taxed on their winnings. (Credit: Nine)<\/p>\n

Do The Block winners pay tax on their earnings?<\/p>\n

According to the Australian Taxation Office<\/a> (ATO), you don\u2019t have to pay tax on lottery winnings or prizes \u2013 including reality TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it comes to winning prize money on reality TV or game shows, you\u2019d only declare it if you regularly appear on these kinds of shows. Then you\u2019d be more like a professional game show contestant\/reality TV star. If it\u2019s more like a one-off thing then no need to declare,\u201d an ATO employee wrote online in a community forum in early 2024.<\/p>\n

So, the answer is no: The Block contestants don\u2019t need to pay tax on their prize money<\/a>, meaning they walk away with their full earnings.<\/p>\n

\"TheEliza and Liberty revealed contestants are paid in \u201cinstalments.\u201d (Credit: Nine)<\/p>\n

Do The Block contestants get their auction money straight away?<\/p>\n

A previous contestant who appeared on The Block told Yahoo Lifestyle<\/a> that although their money isn\u2019t taxed, there is a condition put on their funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t get it for 12 months,\u201d they shared. \u201cIt\u2019s spread over that period so you don\u2019t talk bad on the show and if so, you don\u2019t get your money.\u201d<\/p>\n

2023 runners-up Eliza and Liberty<\/a> also told the publication that contestants receive their prize money \u201cin instalments.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCharlotte Knoke\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

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Charlotte Knoke is a Senior Content Producer working across Woman\u2019s Day and TV WEEK at Are Media. She writes about all things entertainment and lifestyle and has a keen interest in pop culture, royals, fashion, books, travel and women\u2019s sport. Charlotte graduated from the University of Technology Sydney in 2023 with a Bachelor of Communication where she majored in Public Communication and minored in Social and Political Sciences. She has also written for Now To Love and WHO Magazine, and previously worked at a wide variety of companies including Netball Australia, Booktopia, Sportsgirl and Women\u2019s Sport Australia. In her current role, Charlotte particularly enjoys writing about the latest TV shows, celebrity news, fashion picks, must-read books, upcoming movies, and news about both the British and international royal families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Block can truly change people\u2019s lives, with the contestants winning hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,187,19025,15215,427],"class_list":["post-243060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-money","tag-reality-television","tag-the-block","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}