Series:
Tasmanian Submissions & associated Papers to the Commonwealth Grants Commission Review
Series Number:
Access:
Open
Start Date:
01 Aug 1979
End Date:
31 Dec 1981
Creating Agency:
| Treasury Department (TA91) | 01 Jan 1824 | 17 Jul 1989 |
Series notes:
In 1976-77 the Commonwealth Government replaced Financial Assistance Grants, as paid since 1959, with a new form of general purpose assistance grants. Under the scheme, State and Local Governments each received a fixed proportion of Commonwealth personal income tax collections.
Under these arrangements the Commonwealth and States agreed that a review of each State's proportion must take place before 1980-81. Authorised by Commonwealth legislation, a States' Relativities Review was thus conducted by the Commonwealth Grants Commission. It commenced work in 1978-79 and brought down its report in June 1981.
These records are part of the holdings of the Tasmanian Archives
Information Sources:
'Grants to Tasmania' paper tabled by the Treasurer, Journals & Papers of Parliament, Paper No.29 of 1979, No.31 of 1980 and No.27 of 1981