Freedom of information

The Freedom of Information Act 1982 provides you with the right to access information in the possession of the Victorian Government, including the State Revenue Office and the Land Tax Hardship Relief Board.

FOI requests received and determined 2023–24

  State Revenue Office Land Tax Hardship Relief Board
Requests for access to documents
Requests received in 2023–24 15 0
Requests received in 2022–23 actioned in 2023–24 3 0
Initial access decision
Access granted in full 1 0
Access granted in part 9 0
Access denied in full 4 0
Withdrawn 0 0
No documents 1 0
Not proceeded with 0 0
Released outside the Act* 183 0
Pending at 30 June 2023 0 0
* Documents provided outside the FOI process or request satisfied outside FOI process.

FOI 5-year overview

  2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
FOI requests received* 59 23 12 12 15
FOI requests received in the previous year but actioned in the year 13 16 3 3 3
Requests processed outside the FOI Act (i.e. administrative release) 47 94 86 209 183
Total number of information requests 119 133 101 224 201
* The decrease in the number of requests processed under the FOI Act in recent years is attributable to information being released outside of the FOI Act, i.e. administrative release. For example, liquidator requests, which were previously decided under the FOI Act.