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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2020-03-24" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)</sessionName>
  <parliamentNum>54</parliamentNum>
  <sessionNum>2</sessionNum>
  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
  <house>Legislative Council</house>
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  <startPage num="337" />
  <endPage num="367" />
  <dateModified time="2022-08-06T14:30:00+00:00" />
  <proceeding continued="true">
    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
    <subject>
      <name>Land Tax</name>
      <text id="2020032426a8b09f068f43a280000462">
        <inserted>
          <heading>Land Tax</heading>
        </inserted>
      </text>
      <talker role="member" id="3404" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. J.A. DARLEY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-03-24">
            <name>Land Tax</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="2020032426a8b09f068f43a280000463">
          <inserted>In reply to <by role="member" id="3404">the Hon. J.A. DARLEY </by>(18 February 2020).  </inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="605" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. R.I. LUCAS</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
        <questions>
          <question date="2020-03-24">
            <name>Land Tax</name>
          </question>
        </questions>
        <text id="2020032426a8b09f068f43a280000464">
          <inserted>
            <by role="member" id="605">The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (Treasurer):</by>  I have been provided the following advice:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020032426a8b09f068f43a280000465">
          <inserted>RevenueSA has on average, at any particular time, five (5) staff answering land tax inquiries.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020032426a8b09f068f43a280000466">
          <inserted>The amount of staff answering land tax inquiries can fluctuate depending on circumstances. For example, in peak periods beginning in August and ending in December (when notices are generated and sent to taxpayers), RevenueSA will have up to another nine (9) general contact centre staff assisting those five (5) dedicated land tax contact centre staff, available to answer land tax inquiries.</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020032426a8b09f068f43a280000467">
          <inserted>Between 2 September 2019 and 20 February 2020, RevenueSA received 8,882 land tax calls. The average wait time was 1 minute and 17 seconds with:</inserted>
        </text>
        <text id="2020032426a8b09f068f43a280000468">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>55% of land tax calls answered within 30 seconds;</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="2020032426a8b09f068f43a280000469">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>71% of land tax calls answered within 2 minutes; and</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="2020032426a8b09f068f43a280000470">
          <item sublevel="1" bullet="true">
            <inserted>97% of land tax calls answered within 5 minutes.</inserted>
          </item>
        </text>
        <text id="2020032426a8b09f068f43a280000471">
          <inserted>Specifically, in relation to the land tax reform, since 10 September 2019 RevenueSA has taken 289 calls relating to land tax reform. Of those 289 calls, 265 have been taken after the land tax reform letter was sent out in December 2019. Call answer times were similar to those listed above for all land tax inquiries.</inserted>
        </text>
      </talker>
    </subject>
  </proceeding>
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