Question regarding the payroll tax rebate for new Aboriginal employees. The answer provides some figures but withholds specific organisation details due to confidentiality.

AnsweredQoN 4108Legislative Assembly
Asked
16 June 2015
Portfolio
Finance

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(1) I refer to the 100% payroll tax rebate, announced in the 2012/13 State Budget, for wages paid to new Aboriginal
employees of Businesses with annual payrolls up to $15 million and, for the 2014/15 financial year, I ask: (a) how many rebates have been paid by the Government; (b) what was the name of each organisation claiming the rebate; (c) what was the total value of rebates for Aboriginal employees paid to each organisation listed in (b); (d) what was the total amount of payroll tax paid by each organisation after claiming the rebate; (e) did any of the above organisations claim a rebate for disabled employees, and if so, how much was claimed; and (f) for each organisation, how many employees were covered by this rebate? (2) I refer to the 100% payroll tax rebate, announced in the 2012/13 State Budget, for wages paid to new Aboriginal employees of Businesses with annual payrolls up to $15 million: (a) how many rebates are expected to be paid by the Government in the 2015/16 financial year?

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Answered
11 August 2015
Responded by
Minister for Finance
Response time
56 days
The Department of Finance advises:
(1)
(a)
11
(b)
This information cannot be provided as the confidentiality provisions of the
Taxation Administration Act 2003
prevent the Commissioner of State Revenue from disclosing information concerning individual taxpayers.
(c)
$88,496.98
(d)
$1,943,495.21
(e)
No
(f)
This information is not required to calculate the rebate payable and a record of the number of employees is not collected.
Accordingly, this information cannot be provided.
(2)
(a)
This information is unknown.
The rebate is payable for a maximum of two years of employment for the same employee.
The number of rebates payable is dependent on the number of qualifying employees engaged in 2014-15 and the number of new qualifying employees engaged by employers in 2015-16.

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