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Levy and export charge rates

If you buy, export, grow, process or sell Australian agricultural produce yourself, or on behalf of another person, you may be liable to pay a levy or export charge.

We collect levies and export charges on behalf of the relevant agriculture industry. The money collected is then disbursed to levy recipient bodies to fund activities that protect and strengthen those industries.

Check if a levy or export charge may apply to your product.

All rate details

The total levy or charge you pay includes components used to fund different activities.

Our list of rates tables shows the breakdown of all levy and charge components.

See all levy and charge rate tables.

Find your product

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • dairy produce
  • goat fibre
  • honey
  • wool.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • buffalo export
  • buffalo slaughter
  • cattle slaughter
  • deer slaughter
  • game animals (goats and pigs)
  • goat slaughter
  • horse slaughter
  • macropod slaughter
  • pig slaughter
  • ratite slaughter (emus and ostriches)
  • sheep and lambs slaughter.

Levies are payable on:

  • eggs
  • laying chickens
  • meat chickens.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Note: Levies Online is not available for Eggs. You must lodge your return by completing a manual eggs return form.

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • grains (coarse grains, grain legumes, oilseeds, and wheat)
  • cotton and seed cotton
  • fodder
  • pasture seeds
  • rice
  • sugarcane.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • farmed prawns.

You must lodge your return by completing a manual farmed prawns return form.

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • forest growers - logs
  • forest industries products.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Note: The forest industries products import charge is payable through the Department of Home Affairs.

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • almonds
  • apples and pears
  • avocados
  • bananas
  • cherries
  • chestnuts
  • citrus
  • custard apples
  • dried grapes
  • dried tree fruits​​
  • ginger
  • lychees
  • macadamia nuts
  • mangoes
  • melons
  • agaricus mushrooms
  • nursery container
  • olives
  • onions
  • papaya
  • passionfruit
  • pears (refer to apples and pears)
  • persimmons
  • pineapples
  • potatoes
  • rubus
  • stone fruit
  • strawberry runners
  • sweet potatoes
  • table grapes
  • tea tree oil
  • turf
  • vegetables.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Note: For return periods up to 31 December 2024, Levies Online is not available for dried tree fruits, dried grapes, mushrooms, nursery products and strawberries.

You must lodge your return for periods prior to January 2025 by completing the manual horticulture return form.

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • cattle exporter
  • cattle owner export
  • cattle transactions
  • goat exporter
  • goat owner export
  • goat transactions
  • sheep and lambs exporter
  • sheep and lambs owner export
  • sheep and lambs transactions
  • thoroughbred horses.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Note: The thoroughbred horses levy is collected by Racing Australia.

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • fresh grapes, dried grapes and grape juice (grape research levy)
  • wine grapes (wine grapes levy)
  • wine export.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Note: Wine Australia is responsible for the collection of wine export charge. Please and pay your wine export charge through Wine Australia.

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  • All levy and charge rates tables
  • About levies and the levies system
  • Lodge returns and paying levies and charges

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For more on levies and export charges, levies accounts or how to lodge your return, contact the Levies team.

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