Reports of Treasury’s expenditure on consultancies, language services and overseas travel are published on the Open Data website data.qld.gov.au.
Treasury continues to use existing whole-of-government (WoG) procurement arrangements, guided by approaches such as Buy Queensland and the Queensland Procurement Policy while refreshing our own policies and processes.
Treasury produces a range of publications, guidelines, and other useful resources about:
Many of these are available on this site.
External audits and reviews aid transparency in government, and help Treasury improve its performance.
The following reports of independent reviews were tabled in Parliament during 2021–22.
The report provided an update on entities’ self-assessed progress in implementing performance audit recommendations issued between 2015–16 to 2017–18. Queensland Audit Office (QAO) performance audit recommendations for Treasury during this period comprised:
Treasury has fully implemented all recommendations in the 5 reports for the reporting period.
That Treasury amend the Queensland Future Fund Act 2020 (QFF Act 2020) to require:
The QFF has been audited by QAO as part of Treasury’s financial statements with information provided as per section 7 of the QFF Act 2020. This issue was raised again by QAO in Report No 13 and the response is shown below.
That Treasury amends the:
Treasury is committed to ensuring consolidated Queensland Government financial statements are certified by 31 October each year and has agreed with QAO to present further information on the activities of the QFF in the audited section of the Queensland Treasury financial statements.
That Treasury, with the Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC):
That Treasury:
That all entities:
In relation to taking actions for future government restructures, this has been addressed by DPC.
Treasury communicated with Directors-General encouraging them for financial year 2021–22 annual reporting to table all departmental and statutory authorities’ and bodies’ annual reports at the earliest opportunity.
Treasury has undertaken to consider, as part of regular quality assurance, reviews of its accountability reference tools, updating accountability requirements to provide clarity and consistency on the minister’s role in relation to annual reports to ensure there is consistency.
Treasury will continue to be available to provide advice to agencies in understanding requirements for extending the tabling of annual reports and provide guidance on the exceptional circumstance that may result in a minister extending the tabling of an annual report beyond the legislative deadline.
That DPC, in collaboration with Treasury and relevant departments, develops a whole-of-government (WoG) overarching better practice framework for the appointment process for large boards.
That departments managing recruitment processes for ministers responsible for large government boards implement the WoG framework developed by DPC.
Treasury will implement the WoG framework to be developed in collaboration with DPC.
That Treasury and Queensland Government Procurement (within the Department of Energy and Public Works) monitor and report on how departments are collaborating to achieve WoG procurement outcomes, engage with departments about the costs and benefits of moving to a universal classification system for expenditure, and enhance information and data-sharing to support strategic procurement decision-making.
That departments should use existing WoG procurement arrangements and report when and why they are not using these arrangements.
Treasury remains committed to facilitating opportunities to collaborate and share data between Treasury and Queensland Government Procurement (QGP) to improve procurement outcomes across government and will support the implementation of the recommendations lead by QGP.
A report from the Office of Best Practice Regulation on implementation of Regulatory Impact Analysis by agencies for the 12 months ending 30 June 2022 will be available soon.
Customer complaints for 2021–22 for Queensland Treasury, as at 30 June 2022:
This includes complaints for the Queensland Revenue Office.
Code of Conduct
The Code of Conduct for the Queensland public service guides the consistent standards of conduct for all public sector employees and demonstrates the government’s commitment to integrity and accountability, reflecting the ethics principles and values prescribed in the Public Sector Ethics Act 1994.
Duties/duty
A state tax on certain transactions including transfer of property (transfer duty), vehicle registration, insurance contracts and other acquisitions.
Financial Provisioning Scheme
A scheme under the Mineral and Energy Resources (Financial Provisioning) Act 2008 to manage the state’s financial risks from resource sector environmental authority holders failing to meet their environmental and rehabilitation obligations under the Environmental Protection Act 1994. The scheme is managed by the Scheme Manager, a statutory officer appointed by the Governor in Council.
FTE
Full-time equivalent and refers to the number of employment hours considered full-time.
GOC
Government-owned corporation
GST
Goods and services tax
Land tax
State tax on freehold land, assessed on the taxable value of an owner’s total land holdings. In Queensland, landowners are entitled to an exemption from land tax for the land they use as their home.
MOHRI
Minimum obligatory human resource information used to inform the Queensland public sector workforce profile.
Nominal Defendant
A statutory body that compensates people injured by unidentified and uninsured vehicles.
Payroll tax
State tax paid if an employer, or group of employers, pays more than $1.3 million in annual Australian taxable wages.
Project Maroon
Project Maroon was the securing of the Virgin Australia Headquarters and a range of other benefits in Queensland.
QAO
Queensland Audit Office
QGSO
Queensland Government Statistician’s Office
Royalties/royalty
Royalties are payments to the owners of a resource for the right to sell, dispose of or use that resource. In the context of Treasury’s revenue management service, these resources are usually from petroleum, coal and other mining activities.
Savings and Debt Plan
The Queensland Government’s plan to support economic recovery from COVID-19 with a target of $3 billion in savings over 4 years.
State Penalties Enforcement Registry (SPER)
Part of the Queensland Revenue Office, SPER collects and enforces unpaid infringement notice fines, court-ordered monetary fines and offender recovery orders issued in Queensland.
WoG
Whole-of-government
