---
title: "Victorian foreign purchaser additional duty worksheet"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/residential-conveyancing-and-property/vic-foreign-purchaser-additional-duty"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a9-vic-foreign-purchaser-additional-duty"
area_id: "A9"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A9-O20261018-1", "A9-T1-R5", "A9-B15-2"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# Victorian foreign purchaser additional duty worksheet

> A worksheet for whether Victorian foreign purchaser additional duty applies, at the 8 per cent rate the State Revenue Office states for arrangements on or after 1 July 2019, and how it is added to land transfer duty.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/residential-conveyancing-and-property/vic-foreign-purchaser-additional-duty  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Residential Conveyancing & Property](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/residential-conveyancing-and-property.md)
- Jurisdictions: Victoria
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the authority it cites, for Victoria.

## When to use it

Use before exchange and again when completing the Digital Duties Form for a purchase of residential property in Victoria, including a purchase by a foreign person with a non-foreign person, a nomination, or a plan to convert non-residential property.

## Used for these tasks

- [Work out surcharge purchaser duty for a foreign buyer](https://ailawframework.com/practice/residential-conveyancing-and-property/work-out-surcharge-purchaser-duty-for-a-foreign-buyer.md)
- [Prepare the transfer-duty calculation inputs and lodgement or filing checklist](https://ailawframework.com/practice/residential-conveyancing-and-property/prepare-the-transfer-duty-calculation-inputs-and-lodgement-or-filing-che.md)
- [Work out Victorian land transfer duty from the contract price on the State Revenue Office page](https://ailawframework.com/practice/residential-conveyancing-and-property/work-out-victorian-land-transfer-duty-from-the-contract-price-on-the-sta.md)

## How AI may be used

AI may fill this worksheet from the contract and the client's citizenship and visa instructions; the lawyer decides whether the purchaser is foreign and what the dutiable value is.

**AI may:**

- Enter the contract price, the stated shares, and the client's instructions on citizenship, visa and place of incorporation
- Set out the three-step addition the State Revenue Office describes
- Flag a nomination under an off-the-plan contract and a later plan to convert the property

**AI must not:**

- Must not decide that a corporation or a trust is foreign by applying a controlling-interest or substantial-interest test from a page that was not opened
- Must not treat a visa application as if the visa had been granted
- Must not lodge the Digital Duties Form

**The lawyer checks:**

- Each purchaser is classified from the page's tests for a natural person, and the linked tests for a corporation or a trust are read before a company or trustee is treated as foreign or not
- The additional duty is calculated on dutiable value excluding concessions, and land transfer duty is calculated separately with concessions, then the two amounts are added
- A foreign purchaser's share of a dual-purpose property is applied to the whole property, including the non-residential part, as the page states
- The Digital Duties Form tells the State Revenue Office that the purchaser is foreign, if that is the conclusion

## Authorities

- [State Revenue Office Victoria, Understanding foreign purchaser additional duty (updated 29 September 2026): who is a foreign purchaser, what is residential property, the 8 per cent rate, and the Digital Duties Form](https://www.sro.vic.gov.au/buying-property/foreign-purchasers-property/understanding-foreign-purchaser-additional-duty)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/residential-conveyancing-and-property/vic-foreign-purchaser-additional-duty and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*