Income processing for Child Support customers 1 July 2008 to 29 June 2011 (21 November 2012 for WA ex-nuptial cases) 277-07020000
Policy
Child Support Guide 2.3: Child support periods
Child Support Guide 2.4.2: Formula tables and values
Child Support Guide 2.4.4 Child support income
Child Support Guide 2.4.11 Fixed annual rate
Child Support Guide 2.4.12: Minimum annual rate
Legislation
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Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989
section 34A, Registrar must make assessment when new taxable income figure is available
- section 41, Working out parent's child support income
- section 42, Working out parents' combined child support income
- section 43, Working out parent's adjusted taxable income
- section 45, Working out the self-support amount
- section 46, Working out parent's relevant dependent child amount
- section 47, Working out multi-case allowance
- section 56, Taxable Income is as assessed under Income Tax Assessment Act
- Section 56(2)(d)), Taxable income is as assessed under Income Tax Assessment Act. When amended tax assessment may be taken into account
- section 57, Taxable income for child support purposes where taxable income determined to be nil under Income tax Assessment Act etc
- section 58, Registrar determination of adjusted taxable income
- section 58A, Subsequently ascertaining components of a parent's adjusted taxable income
Child Support (Assessment) Regulations 2018
- section 10, Taxable income - prescribed provisions and circumstances
- section 11, Adjusted taxable income - prescribed circumstances
- section 13, Prescribed payments
Delegations and authorisations
Service Officer 2 (SO2)
- To determine an income where taxable income is not readily ascertainable
Service Officer 4 (SO4)
- To amend an assessment when a taxable income has been amended
Service Officer 3s and SO4s
- To correct a simple factual error
See Correcting errors on Child Support cases
EL2
- To have an income deleted from Cuba
- Authorisation must be sought prior to deleting an income
For more information, see Child Support Services, Delegations and Authorisations