THE Victorian Greens have called on the Coalition to back a move to halt a State Government amendment expanding Melbourne's urban growth boundary.

Greens planning spokesman Greg Barber said he had a motion "ready to go" on forming an Upper House Select Committee to examine the VC55 amendment, which would not report back to Parliament until the last sitting week before the election.

Halting Melbourne's urban expansion would prevent the Government collecting its controversial $95,000/ha growth areas infrastructure contribution on sales of land brought into the growth boundary.

The GAIC has been redrafted twice since it was first announced on December 2, 2008, as a tax on vendors.

Planning Minister Justin Madden first redrafted the GAIC from applying in full at the time of purchase to requiring a 30 per cent up-front payment with the remainder due at the point of development.

Landholder group Taxed Out, which opposes the GAIC, welcomed Mr Barber's motion.

Taxed Out spokesman Michael Hocking said anything that delayed the GAIC was welcome.

"It's a clever move and would prevent (Premier John) Brumby using the GAIC as a trigger for a double dissolution (election)," Mr Hocking said.

But Coalition planning spokesman Matthew Guy said he would need to re-examine the VC55 amendment when it was reintroduced to Parliament before making any decision on supporting the Greens Select Committee referral.

Mr Guy said the original VC55 amendment had lapsed and would have to be reintroduced to Parliament.

"It might be substantially different," Mr Guy said. "I will wait until I see it."

However a spokesman for Planning Minister Justin Madden said the VC55 would re-enter Parliament virtually unchanged.

Mr Barber said the select committee would give councils, landholder groups and developers the chance to put their views on one of the biggest changes to affect Melbourne's future.

"It (the VC55) is 40,000ha of planning changes that affect a vast number of people on the urban fringe," he said.