❓ Hon Ray Halligan asks the Treasurer about data inaccuracies leading to incorrect land tax assessments. The Treasurer responds with the causes and actions taken to correct the procedures.
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(1) What caused the data inaccuracies to which the Auditor General referred?
(2) What actions have been taken or are planned to correct these procedures that resulted in about 10 percent of land tax assessments in 2006-2007 being incorrect?
(2) What actions have been taken or are planned to correct these procedures that resulted in about 10 percent of land tax assessments in 2006-2007 being incorrect?
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Answered
18 September 2007
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary representing the Treasurer
Response time
35 days
Department of Treasury and Finance answer
(1) As noted in the Auditor General's report (page 9),
"The underlying causes of these errors are data incompatibilities, data quality and data format issues that arise in the uploading of data to the RCIS database from the Western Australian Land Information Authority's (Landgate) database."
(2) The Office of State Revenue has implemented a number of strategies, some of which are ongoing, to improve the accuracy of assessments. These include:
(a) The establishment in early 2005 of a dedicated team to review and correct land data mismatches;
(b) The establishment in 2004?05 of a project to streamline and improve the automated processing and matching of land sales records received from Landgate, and to improve street address information and data matching with external agencies; and
(c) The establishment in early 2005 of a dedicated compliance team for land tax matters to investigate land ownership issues and to validate exemptions.
These strategies are having an impact. For example, monthly land sale mismatches have fallen from an average of 2,370 per month in 2005?06 to 1,916 per month in 2006?07. Furthermore, since the examination by the Auditor General, the Office of State Revenue has reduced the number of outstanding land and ownership variance work items from 115,868 to 96,795.
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(1) As noted in the Auditor General's report (page 9),
"The underlying causes of these errors are data incompatibilities, data quality and data format issues that arise in the uploading of data to the RCIS database from the Western Australian Land Information Authority's (Landgate) database."
(2) The Office of State Revenue has implemented a number of strategies, some of which are ongoing, to improve the accuracy of assessments. These include:
(a) The establishment in early 2005 of a dedicated team to review and correct land data mismatches;
(b) The establishment in 2004?05 of a project to streamline and improve the automated processing and matching of land sales records received from Landgate, and to improve street address information and data matching with external agencies; and
(c) The establishment in early 2005 of a dedicated compliance team for land tax matters to investigate land ownership issues and to validate exemptions.
These strategies are having an impact. For example, monthly land sale mismatches have fallen from an average of 2,370 per month in 2005?06 to 1,916 per month in 2006?07. Furthermore, since the examination by the Auditor General, the Office of State Revenue has reduced the number of outstanding land and ownership variance work items from 115,868 to 96,795.
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