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DUTIES ACT 2008 - SECT 117

117 .         Transactions involving apparent purchaser

        (1)         Nominal duty is chargeable on —

            (a)         a declaration of trust made by an apparent purchaser in respect of identified dutiable property —

                  (i)         vested in the apparent purchaser upon trust for the real purchaser that provided the money for the purchase of the dutiable property; or

                  (ii)         to be vested in the apparent purchaser upon trust for the real purchaser if the Commissioner is satisfied that when liability for duty arose in respect of the transfer, or agreement for the transfer of, the dutiable property, the money for the purchase of the dutiable property was or was to be provided by the real purchaser;

                or

            (b)         a transfer of dutiable property from an apparent purchaser to the real purchaser if —

                  (i)         the dutiable property is property, or part of property, vested in the apparent purchaser upon trust for the real purchaser; and

                  (ii)         the Commissioner is satisfied that, when liability for duty on the transaction arose, the money for the purchase of the dutiable property and for any improvements made to the dutiable property after the purchase has been or will be provided by the real purchaser.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1), money provided by a person other than the real purchaser is taken to have been provided by the real purchaser if the Commissioner is satisfied that the money was provided as a loan and has been or will be repaid by the real purchaser.

        (3)         This section applies whether or not there has been a change in the legal description of the dutiable property between the purchase of the property by the apparent purchaser and the transfer to the real purchaser.

        Note for this subsection:

        For example, a change in the legal description of dutiable property in the issuing of a new certificate of title following a subdivision of land.



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