The Federal Government has successfully navigated its Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010 and the Healthcare Identifiers (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010 through the Senate. The bills permit e-health authority NeHTA and Medicare Australia to begin assigning the unique, 16-digit individual healthcare identifiers (IHI) to each member of the Australian public. More information is available at www.ehealthinfo.gov.au or www.medicare.gov.au
ATO plans to charge GST on manufactured home parks scrapped
A concerted effort by the Residents Association of manufactured home parks has headed off the ATO which had planned to impose GST in mobile homes. This would have added 10% to the cost of the purchase of a home