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This webinar provides practical guidance to help identify and manage commonly overlooked stamp duty and land tax issues that arise on business and property transactions.

Also covered are some issues that are increasingly becoming areas of focus for revenue offices, and the subject of claims, including:

  • Victoria's 'foreign purchaser additional' duty, particularly in the context of discretionary trust
  • the 'absentee owner' land tax surcharge
  • double duty risks on nominations / sub-sales
  • non-Victorian stamp duty that can arise in respect of business acquisitions.

Date recorded: Thursday 22 July 2021

Presented by: James Hamblin, Special Counsel and Melinda Waduge, Senior Associate, Minter Ellison.

CPD: 0.5 Practice Management, 0.5 Substantive Law

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