Absentee Owner Surcharge Revenue in Victoria from 2015-16

Revenue data for the Absentee Owner Surcharge (AOS), an additional land tax levied in Victoria, Australia. The State Revenue Office compiled this information starting from 1 July 2015, and it includes the number of transactions and associated revenue amounts. The dataset was last updated on 27 April 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling revenue trends from a specific tax surcharge based on the described transaction and revenue data.
• Analyzing the fiscal impact of absentee ownership policies in Victoria based on the described land tax context.
• Benchmarking property tax collection efficiency for specific owner categories mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific tax mechanism (Absentee Owner Surcharge) with a clear start date of 1 July 2015.
• Published by the authoritative State Revenue Office, suggesting official provenance.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

State Revenue Office

Collection Method

Administrative collection of tax revenue records.

Time Range

From 1 July 2015 onward.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 22:44:56.326006; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Victoria, Australia