Agency:
Department of Real Estate Duties
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Apr 1880
End Date:
31 Dec 1889
Description:
The Department was established by the Real & Personal Estate Duties Act 1880 and its role was further expanded by the Land Tax Act of 1888. It was to briefly become the Land Tax Department in 1889 when responsibility for collecting income tax on company dividends was transferred to Treasury.
Information Sources:
'From Commissariat to Treasury' by Heather Felton
Legislation Administered:
Real & Personal Estate Duties Act 1880, Land Tax Act 1888
Legislation Creating:
Real & Personal Estate Duties Act 1880
Legislation Abolishing Agency:
administrative action
Functions Performed:
Finance management
Previous Agencies:
| Internal Revenue Branch (TA1670) | 31 Jan 1839 | 30 Apr 1880 |
Subsequent Agencies:
| Land Tax Department (TA1672) | 01 Jan 1889 | 31 Dec 1891 |
Series Created By Agency:
| TRE23 Registers of Consolidated Revenue received from Various Sources. | 01 Jan 1850 | 30 Jun 1952 |
| TRE25 Cash Book of Receipts at Hobart under the Real and Personal Estates Duties Act 1880. | 01 Oct 1885 | 23 Dec 1888 |
| TRE58 Memorandum of Association and List of Share Holders of the North Western Chronicle Newspaper Co Ltd Submitted to the Collector of Stamp Duties for Stamp Duty. | 10 Sep 1887 | 10 Sep 1887 |
| TRE142 Butts of Demands for Land Tax, Campbell Town [Srd]. | 01 Jan 1889 | 31 Dec 1889 |