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Agency:
Revenue Operations (Services) Branch
Agency Number:
Start Date:
01 Dec 1994
End Date:
30 Jun 2002
Description:
In 1994 the Treasury Department underwent a major reorganisation. The previously semiautonomous Taxation Branch (State Revenue Office) was administratively integrated within Treasury. Within the newly created Revenue & Gaming Division the Revenue Operations Branch and the Revenue Compliance Branch were formed. By June 2000 these had been renamed Revenue Services and Revenue Support respectively. In April of that year the Division took on administrative responsibility of the Licensing Branch. ;;;;The role of the Revenue Services Branch was to manage the assessment and collection of State taxes and the provision of advice to taxpayers, including the preparation of Revenue Rulings and Guidelines; administer State taxation legislation, the pensioner rates remission scheme, and a number of payroll tax rebate schemes; provide advice on amendments to taxation legislation;;;administer the First Home Owner Grant and the Commonwealth's additional first home owner grant for new homes; and manage the collection of outstanding State taxation debts, including court recovery and prosecution action where appropriate.;;;;The term State Revenue Office has continued to be used since the 1980's despite this not appearing in any of the Department's Annual Reports.;;;;The Branch was merged by administrative action into the new Revenue Branch along with the Revenue Support Branch at the beginning of the 2002-03 financial year.
Information Sources:
'From Commissariat to Treasury' by Heather Felton;;Dept of Treasury & Finance Annual Report 2001-02, 2002-03
Legislation Administered:
Debits Tax Transfer Act 1990, Income Tax Collection Arrangement Act 1948, Land & Income Taxation Act 1910, Land Tax Acts (Annual), Land Tax Rating Act 1998, National Taxation Reform (Commonwealth - State Relations) Act 1999, New Tax System Price Exploitation Code (Tasmania) Act 1999, Pay-roll Tax Act 1971, Stamp Duties Act 1931, Taxation Administration Act 1997,
Legislation Creating:
administrative action
Legislation Abolishing Agency:
administrative action
Functions Performed:
Finance management
Controlling Agencies:
Revenue & Gaming Division (TA1681)01 Dec 199403 Apr 2000

Revenue Gaming & Licensing Division (TA1684)03 Apr 2000
Previous Agencies:
Taxation Branch (State Revenue Office) (TA1677)01 Jan 195731 Dec 1994
Revenue Compliance (Support) Branch (TA1679)01 Dec 199430 Jun 2002

Revenue Review & Advisory Service Unit (TA1682)01 Dec 199430 Jun 1999

Gaming Operations Branch (TA1683)01 Dec 199430 Jun 2002

Liquor Licensing Branch (TA1685)03 Apr 200030 Jun 2002
Subsequent Agencies:
Revenue Branch (TA1680)01 Jul 2002