Lodge and pay landholder duty
Steps to lodge your acquisition statement with supporting documents and pay duty.
Background information
You must lodge a landholder acquisition statement and pay duty within 30 days of a relevant acquisition in a landholder. Penalty tax and interest may apply if you miss this deadline.
Step 1: Gather supporting documents
Before lodging, make sure you have the required supporting documents. These commonly include the share or unit sale agreement, valuation reports and financial statements. Refer to the form for the full list of supporting documents.
Step 2: Complete the statement
This form must be completed and lodged online.
You can attach documents up to a total limit of 20MB. If this isn’t enough, you can send additional documents by email to landholder@sro.vic.gov.au. When submitting documents by email, reference your matter and include the tracking code of your online submission.
Step 3: Pay your duty
You can pay by electronic funds transfer from your cheque or savings account.
Use 'LAB' and the payer's name as the payment reference.
Bank: Westpac Banking Corporation
Branch: Victorian Government, Level 10, 150 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000
BSB: 033 222
Account number: 170313
Account name: SRO Document Assessing
For international transfers, you will also need to quote our SWIFT code WPACAU2S.
If you need help to pay, please call us on 03 9628 0123.