2011 Update Report
- Chairman's press release
Download full report (PDF and RTF)
Preliminaries - Copyright
- Letter of transmittal
- Acknowledgements
- Terms of reference
- Executive summary
- Overview
- The task
Recommendations and comments
Illustrative distribution of the GST
What determines State distributions of the GST?
Why have GST shares and relativities changed?
What has changed in each State since the 2010 Review?
- New South Wales
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Western Australia
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Australian Capital Territory
- Northern Territory - 1 Commonwealth-State financial relations
- The Australian framework for Federal financial relations
Horizontal fiscal equalisation
Role of the Commonwealth Grants Commission - 2 Achieving equalisation
- The principle
Implementing equalisation - 3 Update processes
- The terms of reference
Other guidelines
Conducting the update - 4 New issues in this update
- Updating the Interstate wages assessment
Treatment of iron ore fines in the Mining revenue assessment
Comparability of mining data
Welfare and housing assessment - data on income of child protection clients
Services to communities assessment
Correction of errors
Treatment of natural disasters
Treatment of health reforms
Treatment of other Commonwealth payments
New issues - Discussion paper and State responses
Interstate wage costs - Discussion paper and State responses - 5 Why the relativities have changed
- The changes between 2010 Review and 2011 Update relativities
- The effect of the changes in relativities on GST revenue
- Why the relativities change
- Which revenues, Commonwealth payments and services caused the changes?
- Detailed effect of all changes in revenue and expense assessments
- 6 Relativities over time
- Average relativities
Annual relativities - List of boxes
- Box 1-1 The Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) on Federal Financial Relations
Box 4-1 Treatment of natural disasters
Box 5-1 Mining royalties and the GST
Box 5-2 The effect of increased Commonwealth payments on the GST distribution - Attachments
- A Populations
B Calculation of GST relativities
C GST relativities
D Quality assurance in this update
Commission terminology- Acronyms
SUPPORTING INFORMATION
State of the States - Descriptive material on the fiscal positions of the States
Data downloads - Excel spreadsheets supporting the relativities
Treatment of Commonwealth Payments
Other links - State taxation tables and other useful linksTreasuries' feedback on the 2011 Update Report, supporting material and processes
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