Tasmania Payroll Tax Calculator

Worked examples (FY 2026/2027)

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Registration & lodgement

Tasmania payroll tax threshold history

Since FY 2021/2022, the annual payroll tax threshold in Tasmania has not changed at all. In FY 2026/2027 it is $1,250,000. The table below shows the threshold and headline rate for every financial year currently tracked in the engine. These values are drawn directly from the statutory registry, so if a legislative amendment is recorded there it will automatically appear here.

Rates and thresholds should be confirmed against the official Payroll Tax Act 2008 (Tas)and the relevant state revenue office website before lodgement.

Tasmania's two-tier stepped rate

Tasmania applies 4.00% to taxable wages between the $1,250,000 threshold and a $2,000,000 ceiling, and 6.10% to taxable wages above that ceiling. The 6.10% is a marginal rate on the portion above $2,000,000, not a flat rate on the whole taxable amount — a distinction that matters because the top tier applies only to the slice of taxable wages above the ceiling.

For an interstate employer the $2,000,000 band ceiling is apportioned alongside the threshold, and the $1,250,000 threshold is apportioned by Tasmania's share of national wages. A Tasmanian employer with $3,000,000 of wages has a $1,750,000 taxable amount and pays $91,000. A smaller employer with $1,500,000 pays $10,000 on $250,000 of taxable wages — a reminder that the stepped rate only bites above the threshold.

Because both the threshold and the ceiling are apportioned for a group with wages outside Tasmania, a mainland group reduces its Tasmanian shelter twice over. A group with half its wages in Tasmania sees both the $1,250,000 threshold and the $2,000,000 ceiling halved, which raises the taxable amount and pushes more of it into the 6.10% tier at the same time. The two reductions compound, so a Tasmanian practice inside an interstate group should model them together rather than one at a time.

Tasmania has no medical exemption

Despite cross-party election commitments, no medical-specific exemption exists in Tasmania. The relevant contract provisions apply in full, so a Service Facility Agreement that produces deemed wages in NSW or Victoria produces them here too, with no relief attached. Any change in that position would be legislative, and there is no published commencement date to plan around.

Two features soften the position slightly. Under-threshold wages are entirely tax-free, so a practice whose staff and deemed wages together stay below $1,250,000 pays nothing regardless of the contractor question. And apprentice and trainee rebate schemes can reduce the effective rate for practices that employ them. Neither is a substitute for the exemption that does not exist.

Grouping pushes Tasmanian practices into the top tier sooner

Grouping is assessed on ordinary principles, and a related service entity can pull a practice into a group even where the entities look commercially separate. That matters more in Tasmania than in a single-rate state, because both the threshold and the tier ceiling are affected: a reduced threshold raises taxable wages, and a reduced ceiling pushes more of them into the 6.10% band.

The effect compounds. A practice that would pay 4.00% on $1,750,000 as a standalone employer can, once grouped with interstate wages, find its apportioned threshold and ceiling both reduced — so a larger share of the same wages is taxed, and more of it at the higher rate. Only the Designated Group Employer claims the threshold, so the choice of DGE determines where the shelter lands.

How a Tasmanian practice builds the deemed wage figure

Tasmania has no medical exemption, so the deemed wage is built exactly as it would be for any other relevant contract. The starting point is whether the practice bills and remits, or whether the practitioner bills in their own right and pays the practice a facility or service fee. Where the practice collects the billing and remits the balance, the amount remitted is the deemed wage; where the practitioner bills directly, the analysis changes and may produce no deemed wages at all.

The figure is computed practitioner by practitioner and then added to employed staff wages for the threshold test. Because there is no relief to apply, the only reductions available are the threshold, its apportionment across a group, and the four relevant-contract exemptions. None of them turns on the practitioner being a doctor, which is why a Tasmanian practice cannot look to the medical relief provisions for help.