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Leviable commodities

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

Click on the headings below to access information about each commodity and to find out how a levy or charge may apply to you.  

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Animal products

Levies and  charges are payable on:

  • dairy produce
  • goat fibre
  • honey
  • wool.

If you are a wool levy payer or wool collection agent you must also complete and lodge the Wool Producers Statistics Form  to the department at the same time that you lodge your return.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Field crops

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • coarse grains
  • cotton and seed cotton
  • fodder
  • grain legumes
  • oilseeds
  • pasture seeds
  • rice
  • sugar cane
  • wheat.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Note: Levies Online is not available for pasture seeds.

You must lodge your pasture seeds return by completing a manual pasture seeds return form.

Fisheries

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • farmed prawns.

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

Forestry

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.

Game animals

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • game animals (goats and pigs)
  • deer slaughter
  • horse slaughter
  • macropod slaughter
  • ratite slaughter.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Horticulture

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • almonds
  • apples
  • avocados
  • bananas
  • cherries
  • chestnuts
  • citrus
  • custard apples
  • dried fruits and dried vine fruits​​
  • ginger
  • lychees
  • macadamia nuts
  • mangoes
  • melons
  • mushrooms
  • nursery products
  • olives
  • onions
  • papaya
  • passionfruit
  • pears​
  • persimmons
  • pineapples
  • potatoes
  • rubus
  • stone fruit
  • strawberries
  • sweet potatoes
  • table grapes
  • turf
  • vegetables.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Note: Levies Online is not available for dried fruits, dried vine fruits, nursery products and strawberries. You must lodge your return by completing a manual horticulture return form.

Live animal export

Charges are payable on:

  • buffalo export
  • cattle and livestock (goat, lamb and sheep) – export.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Livestock processing

Levies are payable for the following livestock and animal slaughter:

  • beef production
  • buffalo slaughter
  • livestock (goat, lamb and sheep) slaughter
  • pig slaughter.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Livestock transaction

Levies are payable on:

  • cattle and livestock (goat, lamb and sheep) delivered for export by a producer
  • cattle and livestock (goat, sheep and lamb) transactions.

You can lodge your return online at: Levies Online.

Other rural industries

Levies and charges are payable on:

  • tea tree oil
  • thoroughbred horses.

You can lodge your tea tree oil return online at: Levies Online.

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

Poultry

Levies are payable on:

  • eggs (promotion)​
  • 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.

Wine

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.

If you are a grape research or wine grapes levy payer or collection agent you must also complete details of contract winemaking at a processing establishment and lodge this information with the department at the same time as you lodge your return.

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

 

Contact us

If you have any questions about levies and charges, your levies account or how to lodge your return, please contact the Levies Helpdesk via email: levies.management@awe.gov.au or call us on 1800 020 619

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