News and updates

If you conduct duty transactions with the State Revenue Office (SRO), then we'd like to hear from you. We are currently looking at ways to make it easier for customers to do business with us by improving and streamlining our document lodgement services.

The abolition of life insurance duty is one of several changes made by the Building a Better Victoria (State Tax and other Legislation Amendment) Act 2014.

A number of legislative changes were made by the Building a Better Victoria (State Tax and other Legislation Amendment) Act 2014.

The 2013-14 Annual Reconciliation (AR) is now available and is due to be lodged and paid by Monday 21 July 2014.

All SRO SmartForms will be offline from 5pm to midnight on Wednesday 4 June for a scheduled server upgrade by one of our suppliers.

During the outage, the following SmartForms will be not available or, if already partially completed, will not be able to be submitted:

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The Victorian Government has announced changes to the Fire Services Property Levy rates.

These changes will commence from 1 July 2014.

The State Taxation Legislation Amendment Act 2014 (the Amending Act) received Royal Assent on 13 May 2014 and introduces changes to the Congestion Levy Act 2005 and 

The SRO has released two updated customer forms which have been streamlined to ease administrative red tape.

Please note the following changes:

The 2014-15 State Budget has now been released by the Treasurer and includes the following changes: