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DAIRY ADJUSTMENT LEVY (CUSTOMS) BILL 2000

Bills Digest No. 130 1999-2000
Dairy Adjustment Levy (Customs) Bill 2000

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Passage History

Date Introduced: 16 February 2000

House: House of Representatives

Portfolio: Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Commencement: 8 July 2000

The Bill forms part of a package of Bills that provide an adjustment program for the deregulation of the Australian dairy industry. The Bill provides for the imposition of the dairy adjustment levy to the extent that it is a duty of customs.

This Bill together with the Dairy Adjustment Levy (General) Bill 2000 and the Dairy Adjustment Levy (Excise) Bill 2000 are Bills which impose taxation. Three separate Bills are required to satisfy section 55 of the Constitution which in part provides:

For further background the reader is referred to the Digest for the Dairy Industry Adjustment Bill 2000.

Clause 5 imposes formally the levy to be known as the dairy adjustment levy. The levy is only imposed in so far as it is a duty of customs. The rate of the levy is 11 cents per litre (subclause 6(1)). It is to be applied to milk products marketed or for use principally as a beverage for human consumption or an ingredient for use in making a beverage for human consumption (clause 4). Other milk products such as powdered milk and milk concentrates will initially not be subject to a levy. Subclauses 6(2)-6(3) provide a mechanism for calculating the volume of these products for levy purposes should they become subject to the levy at a later date.

The levy can be reduced by regulation (subclause 6(1)(b)).

Clause 7 provides that the Bill does not impose a tax on property of any kind belonging to a State.

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