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Employers, or a group of related businesses, whose total Australian wages exceed the current NSW monthly threshold, are required to pay NSW payroll tax. Each monthly payment or 'nil' remittance is due seven days after the end of each month or the next business day if the seventh day is a weekend (i.e. August payment is due by 7 September).
The Local Government Reform Commission was an independent, purpose-specific authority established by the Beattie Labor Queensland Government on 1 May 2007 to recommend the most appropriate future structure and boundaries for local government in Queensland. This was in part due to the number of financially weak councils with small populations in ...
There are 21 Queensland Government departments, each responsible for delivering a portfolio of government legislation and policy. [1] Each portfolio area is led by a minister who is a senior member of the governing party in the state Legislative Assembly .
Queensland is governed according to the principles of the Westminster system, a form of parliamentary government based on the model of the United Kingdom.Legislative power rests with the Parliament of Queensland, which consists of the King, represented by the Governor of Queensland, and the one house, the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
A council tax rise of 4.99% was voted through along with wide-ranging cuts to services as the authority worked to deliver £21.8m of reductions over the next financial year and £79.6m by 2030.
By revenue, property taxes represent 4.5% of total taxation in Australia. [15] A government report [16] in 1986 for Brisbane, Queensland advocated a land tax. The Henry Tax Review of 2010 commissioned by the federal government recommended that state governments replace stamp duty with land value tax.
At 30 June 2015, there were 243,163 staff (203,348.50 full-time equivalent) employees in 20 Queensland Government departments and 15 other organisations included for statistical purposes. The three largest government employers are Queensland Health , the Department of Education and Training and the Queensland Police Service .
The tourism industry in Queensland employs 5.7% of the workforce, or about 119,000 people and accounts for 4.5% of the state's GSP, [46] directly generating A$$8.8 billion to the state's economy. [47] Tourism Queensland is the government agency responsible for the development of the state's tourist industry.