Contents (2007 - 21)
Payroll Tax Act 2007 No 21
Status information

Long title

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act
2 Commencement
3 Definitions
4 Taxation Administration Act 1996
5 Act binds the Crown

Part 2 Imposition of payroll tax

Division 1 Imposition of tax

6 Imposition of payroll tax
7 Who is liable for payroll tax
8 Amount of payroll tax
9 When must payroll tax be paid

Division 2 Taxable wages

10 What are taxable wages?
11 Wages not referable to services performed in a particular month

Division 3 Other

12 Payroll tax paid under corresponding applied law

Part 3 Wages

Division 1 General concept of wages

13 What are wages?

Division 2 Fringe benefits

14 Wages include fringe benefits
15 Value of wages comprising fringe benefits
16 Employer election regarding taxable value of fringe benefits

Division 3 Superannuation contributions

17 Wages include superannuation contributions

Division 4 Shares and options

18 Inclusion of grant of shares and options as wages
19 Choice of relevant day
20 Deemed choice of relevant day in special cases
21 Effect of rescission, cancellation of share or option
22 Grant of share pursuant to exercise of option
23 Value of shares and options
24 Inclusion of shares and options granted to directors as wages
25 When services considered to have been performed
26 Place where wages are payable

Division 5 Termination payments

27 Definitions
28 Termination payments

Division 6 Allowances

29 Motor vehicle allowances
30 Accommodation allowances

Division 7 Contractor provisions

31 Definitions
32 What is a relevant contract?
33 Persons taken to be employers
34 Persons taken to be employees
35 Amounts under relevant contracts taken to be wages
36 Liability provisions

Division 8 Employment agents

37 Definitions
38 Persons taken to be employers
39 Persons taken to be employees
40 Amounts taken to be wages
41 Liability provisions
42 Agreement to reduce or avoid liability to payroll tax

Division 9 Other

43 Value of wages paid in kind
44 GST excluded from wages
45 Wages paid by group employers
46 Wages paid by or to third parties
47 Agreement etc to reduce or avoid liability to payroll tax

Part 4 Exemptions

Division 1 Non-profit organisations

48 Non-profit organisations

Division 2 Education and training

49 Schools and educational services and training
50 Community Development Employment Project

Division 3 Health care service providers

51 Health care service providers
52 Division not to limit other exemptions

Division 4 Maternity and adoption leave

53 Maternity and adoption leave
54 Administrative requirements for exemption

Division 5 Volunteer firefighters and emergency service volunteers

55 Volunteer firefighters
56 Emergency service volunteers
57 Limitation of exemption

Division 6 Local government

58 Local and county councils
59 Local government business entities
60 Limitation on local government exemptions

Division 7 Other government and defence

61 State Governors
62 Defence personnel
63 War Graves Commission

Division 8 Foreign government representatives and international agencies

64 Consular and non-diplomatic representatives
65 Trade Commissioners
66 Australian-American Fulbright Commission

Part 5 Grouping of employers

Division 1 Interpretation

67 Definitions
68 Grouping provisions to operate independently

Division 2 Business groups

69 Constitution of groups
70 Groups of corporations
71 Groups arising from the use of common employees
72 Groups of commonly controlled businesses
73 Groups arising from tracing of interests in corporations
74 Smaller groups subsumed by larger groups

Division 3 Business groups—tracing of interests in corporations

75 Application
76 Direct interest
77 Indirect interest
78 Aggregation of interests

Division 4 Miscellaneous

79 Exclusion of persons from groups
80 Designated group employers
81 Joint and several liability

Part 6 Adjustments of tax

82 Determination of correct amount of payroll tax
83 Annual adjustment of payroll tax
84 Adjustment of payroll tax when employer changes circumstances
85 Special provision where wages fluctuate

Part 7 Registration and returns

86 Registration
87 Returns

Part 8 Collection and recovery of tax

Division 1 Agents and trustees generally

88 Application
89 Agents and trustees are answerable
90 Returns by agent or trustee
91 Liability to pay tax
92 Indemnity for agent or trustee

Division 2 Special cases

93 Tax not paid during lifetime
94 Payment of tax by executors or administrators
95 Assessment if no probate within 6 months of death
96 Person in receipt or control of money for absentee
97 Agent for absentee principal winding-up business
98 Recovery of tax paid on behalf of another person
99 Liquidator to give notice

Part 9 General

100 Provisions specific to this jurisdiction
101 Regulations
102 Nature of proceedings for offences
103 Savings, transitional and other provisions
104 Repeal
105 (Repealed)
106 Review of Act

 Schedule 1 Calculation of payroll tax liability for financial year commencing 1 July 2007 and subsequent financial years

 Schedule 2 NSW specific provisions

 Schedule 2A Special provisions for financial years 2008–2010

 Schedule 3 Savings, transitional and other provisions

 Schedule 4 (Repealed)

Historical notes