Publications

The Commonwealth Grants Commission is committed to ensuring that, as an organisation and as individuals, we contribute positively to reconciliation.

This paper compares the systems for fiscal equalisation between regional governments in Australia, Canada, Germany and Switzerland. It looks at how resource endowments bring challenges for fiscal equalisation, and how revenue equalisation can influence policy decisions in different countries.

The 2022 Update responds to the Commonwealth Treasurer’s request for an update to the relativities used to distribute GST revenue to states and territories.

GST distribution to states and territories in 2022-23

A snapshot of the key factors affecting the GST revenue sharing relativity of each state and territory in 2022-23.

This paper explains how state and territory financial circumstances differ and how this drives their differing shares of GST revenue.

This paper details the Commission’s approach to assessing state’s mining revenue capacity and the impact the assessment has on GST revenue distributions.

Corporate Plan 2021-22

This paper briefly outlines the arrangements to distribute GST revenue among to states and territories legislated by the Commonwealth Parliament in 2018.

Annual Report 2020-21 for the CGC