Duties Act 2000

This section applies if, under an agreement or arrangement, a landholder that is a private company becomes, through whatever means, a listed company.

All acquisitions of interests in the company under the agreement or arrangement are together taken to have been a relevant acquisition of 100% in the listed company.

For the purposes of subsection (2), a relevant acquisition is taken to have been made on the date on which the private company became a listed company.

The listed company must—

prepare an acquisition statement and lodge it with the Commissioner within 30 days after the date of the relevant acquisition; and

pay the duty chargeable (if any) on the relevant acquisition.

Duty on a relevant acquisition under this section is chargeable at 10% of the duty that would be chargeable, at the rate specified under this Act for a transfer of dutiable property, on a transfer of all the land holdings of the landholder in Victoria (calculated on the unencumbered value of the land holdings at the date of the relevant acquisition).

Subsection (4A) does not apply when determining the duty chargeable at the rate set out in section 28A.

A tax default occurs for the purposes of the Taxation Administration Act 1997 if the whole of any duty chargeable under subsection (4)(b) is not paid to the Commissioner by the listed company within 30 days after liability for the duty arose.

Despite anything to the contrary in Division 1 of Part 2 of Chapter 11, nothing to which this section applies is capable of being an eligible transaction for the purposes of that Division.