÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥â€™s regulatory costs
This page provides an overview of recoverable regulatory costs.
Under the ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥ industry funding model, the Australian Government determines our budget. We then recover our regulatory costs from the industry sectors we regulate, through a combination of:
- industry funding levies charged to 52 subsectors – the levies consist of:
- general industry levies (known as ‘cost recovery levies’), which are charged for ongoing regulatory activities that are consistent with the . These activities relate to supervision and surveillance, enforcement, industry engagement, education, guidance, and policy advice
- statutory levies, which are charged for activities the Australian Government has decided should be cross-subsidised between industry subsectors. These activities relate to:
- the Enforcement Special Account (ESA)
- education
- administration of the unclaimed money regime
- the North Queensland insurance aggregator
- crowd-sourced funding (CSF) implementation
- the whistleblower legal framework,
- credit rating agencies, and
- cost recovery fees (known as ‘fees for service’), which are charged for user-initiated, transaction-based activities where we provide a specific service to individual entities. These activities include licensing, professional registration, applications for relief and review of corporate finance transaction documents.
Exemptions to the industry funding model
Table 1 sets out the costs that are exempt from the industry funding model, and how these costs will be otherwise recovered.
Table 1: Costs that are exemptions to the industry funding model
Cost | Description |
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Costs recovered by APRA | The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) will continue to recover the costs of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) through the Financial Institutions Supervisory Levies until 30 June 2023. |
Regulation of registered charities and not-for-profits | Entities that are registered under the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act 2012 are exempt and do not have to pay industry funding levies: see regulation 5B of the ASIC Supervisory Cost Recovery Levy Regulations 2017 (Cost Recovery Levy Regulations).
We do not recover the portion of our costs (estimated to be approximately $2.5 million per year) relating to these entities through industry funding levies, and therefore the exemption does not affect the amount to be paid by other entities in the relevant subsectors. |
Other | The Cost Recovery Levy Regulations prescribe that certain amounts are not part of ÷ÈÓ°Ö±²¥â€™s regulatory costs and therefore will not be recovered under the industry funding regime. These amounts include the costs of:
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