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New legislation commencement dates for levies and charges

A new legislative framework for the Australian agricultural levies system comes into effect on 1 January 2025.  The dates the changes come into effect vary for individual commodities. A complete list of these dates is provided below.

1 January 2025

  • Apples and pears levy and charge
  • Avocados levy and charge
  • Citrus levy and charge
  • Custard apples levy and charge
  • Dried grapes levy and charge
  • Goat fibre levy
  • Horse biosecurity response levy (inactive)
  • Honey levy and charge
  • Macadamia nuts levy and charge
  • Nashi levy and charge (inactive)
  • Onions levy and charge
  • Potatoes levy and charge
  • Rice levy

1 March 2025

  • Sugarcane levy
  • Thoroughbred horse levy

1 April 2025

  • Cherries levy and charge

1 July 2025

  • Agaricus mushrooms levy
  • Almonds levy and charge
  • Bananas levy
  • Buffalo export charge
  • Buffalo slaughter levy
  • Cattle exporter charge
  • Cattle owner charge
  • Cattle slaughter levy
  • Cattle transaction levy
  • Chestnuts levy and charge
  • Cotton fibre levy
  • Dairy produce levy
  • Deer slaughter levy
  • Eggs (promotion) levy
  • Farmed prawns levy and charge (includes white spot disease repayment levy and charge)
  • Fodder charge
  • Forest growers levy
  • Forest industries products levy and charge
  • Forest products import charge
  • Game animals levy
  • Ginger levy
  • Goat exporter charge
  • Goat owner charge
  • Goat slaughter levy
  • Goat transaction levy
  • Grain levy (includes wheat, coarse grains, oilseeds and grain legumes)
  • Grapes research levy
  • Horse slaughter levy
  • Laying chicken levy
  • Lychees levy and charge
  • Macropod processing levy
  • Mangoes levy and charge
  • Meat chicken levy
  • Melon levy and charge
  • Nursery products levy
  • Papaya levy and charge
  • Passionfruit levy and charge
  • Pasture seeds levy
  • Persimmons levy and charge
  • Pig slaughter levy
  • Pineapples levy and charge
  • Queen bee levy and charge (inactive)
  • Ratite slaughter levy
  • Rubus levy and charge
  • Seed cotton charge
  • Livestock exporter charge
  • Livestock owner charge
  • Livestock slaughter levy
  • Livestock transaction levy
  • Stone fruit levy and charge
  • Strawberries runner levy
  • Sweet potatoes levy and charge
  • Table grapes levy and charge
  • Tea tree oil levy and charge
  • Turf levy and charge
  • Vegetables levy and charge
  • Wine export charge
  • Wine grapes levy
  • Wool levy and charge

1 October 2025

  • Dried tree fruits levy
  • Olives levy
  • Prunes levy
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Page last updated: 19 December 2024

We acknowledge the continuous connection of First Nations Traditional Owners and Custodians to the lands, seas and waters of Australia. We recognise their care for and cultivation of Country. We pay respect to Elders past and present, and recognise their knowledge and contribution to the productivity, innovation and sustainability of Australia’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries.

Artwork: Protecting our Country, Growing our Future
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