News and updates

Thanks to feedback about how we can enhance Duties Online, and the services it offers more than 1400 registered organisations, new transactions will be added as of Monday 29 September 2014.

The Victorian Government offers eligible first-home buyers a duty concession when they buy a new or established home.

This concession rate rose to 50 per cent on 1 September 2014 and is the final of the incremental increases which have been phased in over the past four years.

The State Revenue Office has just issued Duties Act Bulletin D2/14 'Drive-Away-Deals 2014/15'.

The Bulletin provides guidance on the calculation of the dutiable value on 'drive-away-deals' for new and used motor vehicles from 1 July 2014.

The SRO has released an updated customer form which has been amended due to changes introduced by the Building a Better Victoria (State Tax and other Legislation Amendment) Act 2014.

Please note the following changes:

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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