Bill
Import Processing Charges Amendment Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-11-12. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-09-16
- second reading — 2015-09-16
- second reading — 2015-10-14
- second reading — 2015-10-14
- third reading — 2015-10-14
- introduced — 2015-10-14
- second reading — 2015-10-14
- second reading — 2015-10-15
- second reading — 2015-10-15
- third reading — 2015-10-15
- passed — 2015-10-15
- royal assent — 2015-11-12
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2015-09-16.
This bill would raise fees for bringing goods into Australia.
It would replace the current system of different fees for sea, air and post with a single fee for all methods.
A $40 difference would apply between electronic and paper import forms, with the higher fee for paper.
- Increase import processing charges on import and warehouse declarations.
- Remove the different charges for sea, air and post imports.
- Introduce a $40 price gap between electronic and manual import declarations.
- Apply the new charges to declarations made on or after 1 January 2016.
Importers and businesses that lodge import or warehouse declarations.
Sources
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