REVENUE SA

In reply to the Hon. I.F. EVANS (Davenport) (28 June 2013).

The Hon. M.F. O'BRIEN (Napier—Minister for Finance, Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety): The Commissioner of State Taxation has provided the following information:

The RISTEC project was never costed at $2.4 million with a completion date of June 2003.

The capital investment statement for Treasury and Finance appearing in the 2002-03 budget papers provides a figure of $2.4 million, to which the honourable member refers, relating to 'Works in Progress' for the RISTEC project. The budget papers describe this Stage 1 work as follows:

The project will ensure that the tax revenue continues to be collected effectively through improvements to selected modules of the existing system

Stage 1 refers to remedial work to the then existing IT framework used by RevenueSA rather than system replacement.

The system replacement itself appears under 'New Works' in that same capital investment statement.