Payroll tax

Apprentice and trainee rebate for payroll tax

If your apprentice and trainee wages are exempt from payroll tax, you can also claim a payroll tax rebate that reduces your payroll tax amount for the particular liability (periodic, annual or final return).

A 50% rebate is available from 1 July for these financial years:

2016–17
2017–18
2018–19
2019–20
2020–21
2021–22
2022–23.

The rebate is automatically calculated when you enter your apprentice and trainee wages and lodge a return in QRO Online.

You can work out the rebate by multiplying 50% of the apprentice and trainee wages by the applicable payroll tax rate for each return period.

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A Brisbane-based company's payroll tax liability for January 2022 was $10,000. That month, it paid $50,000 in exempt apprentice/trainee wages.

Initial payroll tax periodic liability (on all taxable wages)	$10,000.00
Less incentive rebate ($50,000 × 50%) × 4.75%	$1,187.50
Payroll tax periodic liability	$8,812.50

The rebate reduces the employer's monthly periodic liability by $1,187.50.

The maximum rebate you can claim in a return period is equal to your payroll tax amount for that liability.

All rebate records must be kept for 5 years.