About Fiscal Equalisation
COMMONWEALTH-STATE FINANCIAL RELATIONS
KEY INFORMATION
What is fiscal equalisation?
The fiscal equalisation system in Australia
What is horizontal fiscal equalisation in practice?
The pool of GST revenue
Material factors
Fiscal capacity
The same standard of services and the same effort to raise revenue
The average policies
Own source revenues
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation (HFE)?
What determines the distribution of GST among the States?
Does fiscal equalisation aim to give the States the capacity to provide the same standard of service to every Australian?
Does the principle of HFE direct the States how to spend their GST revenue?
Do Commonwealth payments to the States other than the GST impact on the Commission's recommendations on State GST shares?
Under HFE, is there any incentive for States to improve their service delivery efficiency?
Can States influence their grants?
HOT TOPICS
How the efficient States retain the benefit
Indigenous and non-Indigenous influences
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