Treasurer clarifies JobKeeper
Dan Wade • September 23, 2020
Treasurer clarifies JobKeeper
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has clarified JobKeeper payments, perhaps affecting whether certain charities and NFPs may access the scheme.
The clarifications include:
- Charities and the treatment of government revenue: Changes will allow charities (other than schools and universities) to elect to exclude government revenue from the JobKeeper turnover test. This will allow employing charities receiving revenue from government to use either their total turnover, or their turnover excluding government revenue, for the purposes of assessing eligibility for the JobKeeper payment. This will help to ensure that the eligibility of charities is not adversely affected where they are delivering significant services that are funded by government.
- Religious practitioners: Changes will allow JobKeeper payments to be made to religious institutions in respect of religious practitioners (with the exception of those who are only students), recognising that many religious practitioners are not 'employees' of their religious institutions.
- International Aid Organisations: Changes will allow entities that are endorsed under the Overseas Aid Gift Deductibility Scheme or for developed-country relief to meet the requirement that NFPs pursue their objectives principally in Australia. The current requirement that employees must be Australian residents to be eligible under the JobKeeper program would remain in place.
- Universities: Changes will clarify that the core commonwealth government financial assistance provided to universities will be included in JobKeeper turnover tests.
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