Question On Notice No. 6273 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 24 June 2020 by Mrs A.K. Hayden
Question Directed to the: Minister for Treasurer
Parliament: 40 Session: 1
Question
I refer to the State Government's COVID-19 payroll tax measures, and I ask:
(a) How many businesses have a payroll of between $1 million and $4 million in Western Australia;
(b) How many small businesses have received assistance through the payroll tax measures; and
(c) How many small businesses in WA are ineligible for this assistance?
Answered on 11 August 2020
(a) 8,004 registered payroll tax clients. The figure includes employers that are a member of an employer group whose group Australian taxable wage figure exceeds $4 million.
Note: The figure is based on reconciled data for the 2018-19 assessment period. The reconciled data for 2019-20 is expected to be available in October 2020.
Note: Not all of these registered payroll tax clients will be eligible for payroll tax relief as it depends on whether they are a member of an employer group.
(b) At 2 July 2020, around 5,300 employers had claimed the payroll tax waiver for March to June 2020, applying to employers, or groups of employers, with Australian taxable wages less than $7.5 million at 30 June 2020. The final number will not be available until after the 2019-20 assessment period is reconciled.
As at 2 July 2020 , no data is available on the $17,500 one-off payroll tax grant for employers, or groups of employers, with Australian taxable wages more than $1 million and less than $4 million. As planned, this grant will automatically be issued from mid-July 2020.
(c) The Department of Finance does not hold data on the number of small businesses in Western Australia.