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7203 - Finance and Small Business - SUPPORT PACKAGES

Mookhey, Daniel to the Minister for Finance and Small Business

(1) For the COVID-19 Disaster Payment, please provide:

(a) Number of successful recipients for each Local Government Area?

(b) Total dollar amount provided for each Local Government Area?

(c) Number of successful recipients for each State Electorate?

(d) Total dollar amount provided for each State Electorate?

(2) For the COVID-19 Micro Business Grants, please provide:

(a) Number of successful recipients for each Local Government Area?

(b) Total dollar amount provided for each Local Government Area?

(c) Number of successful recipients for each State Electorate?

(d) Total dollar amount provided for each State Electorate?

(3) For the COVID-19 Business Grants, please provide:

(a) Number of successful recipients for each Local Government Area?

(b) Total dollar amount provided for each Local Government Area?

(c) Number of successful recipients for each State Electorate?

(d) Total dollar amount provided for each State Electorate?

(4) For the JobSaver program, please provide:

(a) Number of successful recipients for each Local Government Area?

(b) Total dollar amount provided for each Local Government Area?

(c) Number of successful recipients for each State Electorate?

(d) Total dollar amount provided for each State Electorate?

(5) For the payroll tax reduction measure, please provide:

(a) Number of successful recipients for each Local Government Area?

(b) Total dollar amount provided for each Local Government Area?

(c) Number of successful recipients for each State Electorate?

(d) Total dollar amount provided for each State Electorate?

Answer -

(1) This data is held by Services Australia, the Commonwealth Agency that collects and administers the Scheme for the Commonwealth government.

(2) As at 6 September 2021, payments totalling $195 million had been made to 33,081 applicants for the 2021 COVID-19 Micro-business Grant had been approved. A breakdown by LGA is set out in Attachment A.

Data is not collected by electorate.

(3) As at 6 September 2021, payments totalling $1.6 billion had been made to 129,540 applicants for the 2021 COVID-19 Business Grant. A breakdown by LGA is set out in Attachment B.

Data is not collected by electorate.

(4) As at 6 September 2021, payments totalling $1.8 billion had been made to 133,544 applicants for JobSaver. A breakdown by LGA is set out in Attachment C.

Data is not collected by electorate.

(5) Payroll tax customers whose total grouped Australian wages for the 2021/22 financial year are $10 million or less, and who are eligible for the 2021 COVID-19 Business Grant or for JobSaver, will have their annual tax liability automatically reduced by 50 per cent.

No data on the number of businesses which have benefited will be available until after the 2021/22 annual reconciliation which is scheduled for 28 July 2022.

Please see the Parliament's website for attachments.

Attachments -

Question asked on 19 August 2021 (session 57-1) and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 566
Answer received on 7 September 2021 and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 579