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Title

QUESTIONS ON NOTICE

Diesel Fuel Rebate Scheme

Database

Senate Hansard

Date

15-06-2004

Source

Senate

Parl No.

40

Electorate

Tasmania

Interjector

 

Page

23697

Party

AG

Presenter

 

Status

Final

Question No.

2628

Questioner

Brown, Sen Bob

Responder

Coonan, Sen Helen

Speaker

 

Stage

Diesel Fuel Rebate Scheme

Type

 

Context

Answers to Questions on Notice

System Id

chamber/hansards/2004-06-15/0288


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Tuesday, 15 June 2004
Page: 23697


Senator Brown asked the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, upon notice, on 2 March 2004:

(a) What was the total value of the rebates provided each year under the Diesel Fuel Rebate Scheme during the period July 1990 to June 2003, including details of the total value of the rebates for each off-road use; and (b) what was the total value of the rebates provided under the scheme during the period July 2003 to December 2003, including details of the total value of the rebates for each off-road use.


Senator Coonan (Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer) —As these questions deal with matters administered by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), I have asked the Commissioner of Taxation for advice. The answer to the honourable senator's question is as follows:

Prior to 4 February 1999, the Diesel Fuel Rebate Scheme (DFRS) was administered by the Australian Customs Service (ACS).

Figures for the total rebates paid under the DFRS are contained in the ACS Annual Reports for financial years 1990-91 to 1997-98 inclusive and in the Commissioner of Taxation's Annual Reports for financial years 1998-99 to 2002-03 inclusive.

As the published figures do not specify a breakdown of payments made by category of off-road use, the ATO is unable to provide the details requested.