2019

Disclosure Log

The disclosure log provides summary descriptions of the nature of information requested and released under the Code on Access to Information (“the Code”) by this Department. The disclosure log will be updated on a quarterly basis.

If any member of the public wishes to obtain any information listed in the disclosure log, an information request should be made to our Access to Information Officer. Such requests will be handled in accordance with the Code.

January to March 2019

Entry number	Information requested and released
2019-1	Statistics of ad valorem stamp duty collection in respect of residential property transactions and applications for partial refund of ad valorem stamp duty for August 2018 to February 2019

April to June 2019

Entry number	Information requested and released
2019-2	Statistics of remission of stamp duty granted under section 52 of the Stamp Duty Ordinance on property transactions involving the Central People’s Government’s organs in Hong Kong or their subsidiary company for the financial years 2014-15 to 2018-19
2019-3	Statistics of approved charitable donations allowed for corporations for the years of assessment 2016-17 and 2017-18
2019-4	Monthly statistics of the numbers of lease agreements stamped and the related stamp duty collections for January 2015 to April 2019

July to September 2019

Entry number	Information requested and released
2019-5	(1) Establishment and strength of Assessor, Taxation Officer and Tax Inspector grade officers (position as at 30 June 2019); (2) Number of Assessor, Taxation Officer and Tax Inspector grade officers resigned during the period from 2014 to 2018; and (3) Number of total applicants and applicants with offers in respect of two staff recruitment exercises for Assistant Assessors (published on 17 November 2017) and Assistant Taxation Officers (published on 9 March 2018) respectively
2019-6	Number of lease agreements stamped in 2018
2019-7	Statistics of the numbers of lease agreements stamped for January 2017 to June 2019
2019-8	(1) Statistics of ad valorem stamp duty collection in respect of residential property transactions at Scale 2 rates for March to July 2019; and (2) Statistics of applications for partial refund of ad valorem stamp duty for March to July 2019
2019-9	(1) Number of applications for charging ad valorem stamp duty at Scale 2 rates regarding chargeable instruments of residential properties received by the Stamp Office from 25 July 2014 to 31 January 2019; (2) For the statutory declarations received by the Stamp Office from 25 July 2014 to 31 January 2019, number of prosecutions against duty payers for making false statutory declarations; and (3) Number of instruments which relate to the acquisition of more than one residential property under a single instrument, and were charged with ad valorem stamp duty at Scale 2 rates from August 2016 to April 2018

October to December 2019

There were no new entries in this quarter.

Note: The disclosure log does not cover requests from individual persons/companies for information about themselves and their complaint cases, or requests for information already published or available through an existing charged service.