The South Australian government says it's struck a compromise on looming changes to payroll tax for general practices in the state.
RACGP SA chair Sian Goodson said the exemption for doctors providing bulk-billing services was "a reasonable middle ground". "The increased fees for private patients won't need to compensate for bulk-bill so the increased fees would be a lot less but there would still be some increase for private patients," Dr Goodson said.“I think this will protect the bulk-billing that’s there, I think the federal government needs to increase rebates if they want to see more bulk-billing because it’s very difficult on the current rebate structure to sustain the bulk-billing model," she said.
"Everyone around the country has been put in a difficult position once this court case was handed down because for the first time I think thousands of GPs across the country realised that they are likely to have had a payroll tax obligation going back many years," Mr Mullighan said.When asked how much revenue would be lost from the upcoming state budget as part of this tax cut, Mr Mullighan said no modelling was done.
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