REVENUE SA

257 Mr HAMILTON-SMITH (Waite—Leader of the Opposition) (23 October 2007). How many Revenue SA compliance officers were there in each year since 2001-02 and in which areas of taxation did they operate?

The Hon. K.O. FOLEY (Port Adelaide—Deputy Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Industry and Trade, Minister for Federal/State Relations): I am advised that RevenueSA adopts a risk management methodology in allocating Compliance resources during any Financial Year, identifying areas of risk or potential risk by various means including substantial data matching and environmental scanning and then targeting with appropriate programs those areas where there is, or is likely to be significant risk to the revenue and grant/subsidy/rebate expenditure. Therefore, the allocation of FTE's to any particular tax head can vary from period to period.

The following table shows the Compliance FTE's and primary tax areas to which they were allocated: