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Payroll tax is a general purpose tax assessed on the wages paid by an employer in Western Australia. The tax is self-assessed in that the employer calculates the liability and then pays the appropriate amount to the Office of State Revenue, by way of a monthly, quarterly or annual return. From 1 July 2014: [32] The rate of payroll tax is 5.5%.
The Australian Salary Packaging Industry Association [7] is the professional body for outsourced salary packaging service providers. The Australian Taxation Office [ 8 ] administers Fringe Benefits Tax and the FBT Exemptions that facilitate salary packaging for employees of not-for-profit healthcare organisations and public benevolent institutions.
The first income tax in Australia was imposed in 1884 by South Australia with a general tax on income. Federal income tax was first introduced in 1915, as a wartime measure to help fund Australia's war effort in the First World War. Between 1915 and 1942, income taxes were levied by both State governments and the federal government.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's centre-left Labor government on Thursday made changes to planned tax cuts, trimming benefits to the wealthy while giving low-income earners more breaks, in a bid to ...
The tax is levied on most non-cash benefits that an employer provides "in respect of employment." The tax is levied on the employer, not the employee, and will be levied irrespective of whether the benefit is provided directly to the employee or to an associate of the employee. [1] The tax was first imposed in 1986 and the operation of the tax ...
The Luxury Car Tax (LCT) is a tax within the Australian taxation system, collected by the Australian Taxation Office on behalf of the Government of Australia. It was introduced under A New Tax System (Luxury Car Tax) Act 1999 by the Howard government ., [ 1 ] and commenced on 1 July 2000.
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The main fuel tax in Australia is an excise tax, to which Goods and Services Tax ("GST") is added. Both taxes are levied by the federal government. Both taxes are levied by the federal government. In Australia the GST (currently 10%) is applied on top of the fuel excise tax.