180 Aggregation of particular relevant acquisitions
(1) This section applies for aggregating relevant acquisitions that together
form, evidence, give effect to or arise from what is, substantially 1
arrangement if a person makes a relevant acquisition mentioned in section 179(2) .
(2) For assessing landholder duty on each of the relevant acquisitions,
the acquisitions must be aggregated and treated as a single relevant
acquisition.
(3) For subsection (1) , all relevant circumstances relating to
the relevant acquisitions must be taken into account in deciding whether they
together form, evidence, give effect to or arise from what is, substantially 1
arrangement.
(4) For subsection (3) , relevant circumstances include the
following—
(a) whether any of the acquisitions are conditional on entry
into, or completion of, any of the other acquisitions;
(b) whether the
parties to any of the acquisitions are the same;
(c) whether any party to an
acquisition is a related person of another party to any of the other
acquisitions;
(d) the time over which the acquisitions take place;
(e)
whether, after the acquisitions take place, the acquirers’ interests will be
used together or dependently with one another;
(f) whether, before the
acquisitions take place, the interests were used together or dependently with
one another.
(5) Landholder duty imposed on the relevant acquisition
aggregated under this section must—
(a) be assessed on the total of the
dutiable values of the acquisitions when the liability for landholder duty for
each of the acquisitions arose; and
(b) be apportioned between the
acquisitions as decided by the commissioner.
(6) The acquirer must, when
lodging the landholder duty statement relating to the acquisition, give notice
to the commissioner stating details known to the acquirer about—
(a) all of
the interests of the acquirer and related persons of the acquirer included or
to be included in the arrangement mentioned in subsection (1) ; and
Under the
Administration Act , the requirement under this subsection is a lodgement
requirement for which a failure to comply is an offence under section 121of
that Act.