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2010-2011-2012 THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSENGER MOVEMENT CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL 2012 EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM (Circulated by authority of the Minister for Home Affairs, the Honourable Jason Clare MP) PASSENGER MOVEMENT CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL 2012 OUTLINE 1. The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978 to increase the rate of the passenger movement charge (PMC) from $47 to $55 with effect from 1 July 2012 and to introduce annual indexation of PMC from 1 July 2013. 2. The increase, announced by the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer in the 2012-13 Budget, will fund the establishment of the Asia Marketing Fund aimed at supporting the promotion of Australia to growing markets in Asia as a premium holiday and business travel destination. 3. Departures of persons from Australia on or after 1 July 2012 will not be subject to the increase in the rate of the PMC, where that person is using a ticket or equivalent authority sold or issued before 1 July 2012. FINANCIAL IMPACT STATEMENT 4. The increase of the existing $47 PMC to $55 and the introduction of indexation to the PMC is expected to result in an increase in revenue of $610 million over the four years from 2012-13. Page 2 Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2012 Statement of Compatibility with Human Rights Prepared in accordance with Part 3 of the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011 PASSENGER MOVEMENT CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL 2012 This Bill is compatible with the human rights and freedoms recognised or declared in the international instruments listed in section 3 of the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011. Overview of the Bill The Bill will increase the rate of passenger movement charge imposed in respect of the departure of Australia from $47 to $55 and introduce annual automatic indexation of passenger movement charge based on movement in the Consumer Price Index. Human rights implication This Bill does not engage any applicable rights or freedoms. Conclusion The Bill is compatible with human rights as it does not raise any human rights issues. Minister for Home Affairs, the Honourable Jason Clare MP Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2012 Page 3 PASSENGER MOVEMENT CHARGE AMENDMENT BILL 2012 NOTES ON CLAUSES Clause 1 – Short title 1. This clause provides for the Bill, when enacted, to be cited as the Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Act 2012. Clause 2 - Commencement 2. This clause provides for the Bill to commence on 1 July 2012. Clause 3 - Schedules 3. This clause is the formal enabling provision for the Schedule to the Bill, providing that each Act specified in a Schedule is amended in accordance with the applicable items of the Schedule. In this Bill the Act being amended is the Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978. 4. The clause also provides that the other items of the Schedules have effect according to their terms. This is a standard enabling clause for transitional, savings and application items in amending legislation. In this Bill there is an application provision in item 2 of Schedule 1. Page 4 Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2012 Schedule 1 – Amendments Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978 Item 1 - Section 6 5. This item repeals and substitutes section 6 of the Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978 (the Act) to increase the rate of passenger movement charge (PMC) imposed by the Act from $47 to $55 with effect from 1 July 2012 and to introduce automatic annual indexation to the amount of PMC from 1 July 2013. Indexation will be based on movements in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). 6. Where a person departs Australia using a ticket or equivalent authority, the rate of PMC will be based on when the person purchases or is issued the ticket or relevant authority. In all other cases the rate of PMC will be the rate applicable at the time the person departs Australia. 7. Section 6 will be replaced by three new sections. New section 6 8. New section 6 sets out the rate of PMC where a person departs Australia using a ticket or equivalent authority. 9. Subsection 6(1) sets out the rate of PMC for the financial year beginning on 1 July 2012. It provides that where the person departs Australia using a ticket or equivalent authority sold or issued in the financial year beginning 1 July 2012, the rate of PMC will be $55. 10. Indexation, based on the CPI, will apply to PMC annually from 1 July 2013. Subsection 6(2) sets out the formula to calculate the rate of PMC for a financial year beginning on or after 1 July 2013. This rate will determine PMC for a person who departs Australia using a ticket or equivalent authority on or after 1 July 2013. 11. Indexation will occur based on the following formula: former rate of charge x indexation factor where the former rate of charge is the PMC for the previous financial year in respect of a person departing Australia using a ticket or equivalent authority and the indexation factor is the amount calculated under new section 8. 12. The rate of charge of PMC for a particular financial year becomes the former rate of charge in the subsequent financial year. The effect of this is that indexation of PMC is cumulative. 13. The amount of PMC payable by a person will be based on when the person purchases or is issued the ticket or relevant authority which they use to depart Australia. For example, where a person departs Australia on 12 July of a Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2012 Page 5 particular year using a ticket they purchased on 28 February of the same year, the rate of PMC payable in respect of the departure will be the rate of PMC as at 28 February when the person purchased the ticket and not the rate as at 12 July when the person departs Australia. 14. New subsection 6(3) clarifies that the amount of PMC calculated under subsection 6(2) is calculated to 2 decimal places. New section 7 15. New section 7 sets out the rate of PMC where a person departs Australia otherwise than using a ticket or equivalent authority. For example, a person may depart on a private, rather than a commercial, aircraft or ship. The rate of PMC in this situation will be the applicable rate at the time the person departs Australia. 16. Subsection 7(1) provides that where a person departs Australia otherwise than using a ticket or equivalent authority for the financial year beginning on 1 July 2012, the rate of PMC will be $55. 17. Indexation, based on CPI, will apply to PMC annually from 1 July 2013. Subsection 7(2) sets out the formula to calculate the rate of PMC for a financial year beginning on or after 1 July 2013 for a person who departs Australia otherwise than using a ticket or equivalent authority on or after 1 July 2013. 18. Indexation to PMC for a person who departs Australia otherwise than using a ticket or equivalent authority is calculated in the same way as it is for a person who departs Australia using a ticket or equivalent authority in new subsection 6(2). New section 8 19. New section 8 sets out the formula for determining the indexation factor which is to be used when calculating the rate of PMC under subsections 6(2) and 7(2). 20. New subsection 8(1) provides that the indexation factor is based on a comparison of the March indexation number for the year indexation is to occur, and the previous March quarter, not earlier than the March quarter 2012, with the highest index number. 21. The index number for a quarter is the CPI number published by the Australian Statistician in relation to that quarter. 22. New subsection 8(3) provides that where the indexation factor is calculated to be less than or equal to1 it should be increased to 1, and there will be no change in PMC rate. Page 6 Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2012 23. The indexation factor that will be used to determine the increase in PMC adopts a similar calculation method to other taxes and levies that are subject to indexation. 24. The following example illustrates how indexation is applied to PMC. Year CPI Indexation Number 2012 179.5 2013 184 2014 182 2015 183 2016 186 Assume the CPI index number published by the Australian Statistician for the 2013 March quarter is 184 and the index number published for the 2012 March quarter is 179.5. The indexation factor is calculated as: 184 ÷ 179.5 = 1.025 at three decimal places. The specified rate prior to indexation on 1 July 2013 will be $55. Multiplying this by the indexation factor gives a result of $56.375. Rounding to two decimal places, the final rate will be $56.38 to apply from 1 July 2013. Further, assume that the CPI index number published for the 2014 March quarter is 182. The factor for 2014 is calculated as: 182 ÷ 184 = 0.989. As this is less than one, PMC will not change on 1 July 2014. Further, assume that the CPI index number published for the 2015 March quarter is 183. The factor for 2015 is based on comparing the 2015 March quarter with the previous highest March quarter, being March 2013, and calculated as: 183 ÷ 184 = 0.994. As this is less than one, PMC will not change on 1 July 2015. Further, assume that the CPI index number published for the 2016 March quarter is 186. The factor for 2016 March quarter is based on comparing the 2016 March quarter with the previous highest March quarter, being March 2013, and calculated as: 186 ÷ 184 = 1.011 at three decimal places. The specified rate prior to indexation on 1 July 2016 will be $56.38. Multiplying this by the indexation factor gives a result of $57.001. Rounding to two decimal places, the final rate will be $57.00 to apply from 1 July 2016. Item 2 – Application 25. This item provides that the above amendments of the Act apply to the departure of a person from Australia on or after 1 July 2012, unless the person departs using a ticket or equivalent authority and the ticket or authority was sold or issued before 1 July 2012. 26. The application clause will ensure that the increase in PMC will not apply to the departure of a person from Australia on or after 1 July 2012 where the person departs using a ticket or an equivalent authority and the ticket or authority was sold or issued before 1 July 2012. Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2012 Page 7