Freight discounts for QLD businesses in remote communities

Overview

The Remote Communities Freight Assistance Scheme aims to reduce the amount of freight costs that are passed onto consumers of eligible goods in remote communities.

The Scheme provides 3 types of assistance to wholly or partly reimburse eligible business owners, being:

• Establishment Assistance: a one-off reimbursement (where applicable) to help offset establishment activities costs.
• Discount Assistance: a monthly payment to reimburse the eligible business for monthly discount shortfalls.
• Compliance Assistance: to reimburse the monthly compliance cost to the business.

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To be eligible, the business must be located in an eligible local government area in a remote community.

Additionally, the retail sales of eligible essential goods by the business, during the most recently ended financial year when the application is made, accounted for:

• where the premises are used primarily for the retail sale of fuel for vehicles, at least 15% of revenue of the business at the premises for the year
• otherwise, at least 50% of the revenue of the business at the premises for the year.