Following a natural disaster, Commonwealth, state and local governments provide assistance to affected communities and to repair damage to government assets, such as roads and bridges.
In recommending a distribution of the GST among the states, the Commonwealth Grants Commission considers Commonwealth payments that are available to the states to fund services and invest in infrastructure.
This paper briefly outlines the arrangements to distribute GST revenue among to states and territories legislated by the Commonwealth Parliament in 2018.
This paper summarises the Commission’s approach to assessing state’s mining revenue capacity and the impact the assessment has on GST revenue distributions.
This paper canvasses whether the method for distributing GST revenue to the states and territories may be an impediment to state and territory tax reform.
