Collection of Damnien Tudehope's non-health service expenses via Sydney Local Health District likely to have required another Dom Perrotet style Transport Asset Holding Entity shell

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 


                                                                 Premier Dominic Perrotet, the former Treasurer


As  previously reported on this blog:

On 21 February 2021 the SMH quoting  NSW Minister For Finance and Small Business Damien Tudehope reported; NSW Finance Minister Damien Tudehope said your invoice for hotel quarantine includes a contribution towards security, testing, cleaning, police, health personnel and other expenses.


It has also been reported  here that  Tudehope is relying  on the  Health Services Act (HSA) to recover costs that fall outside the Act.  

Invoices for the costs associated with the  quarantine program are issued by the Sydney Local Health District.That creates accounting problems at the SLHD, and NSW Health (see story below). 

The revelation that the HSA is being relied on to charge and recover the costs of quarantine compounds those problems for SLHD and NSW Health would have issued invoices for costs incurred by other NSW government departments, for instance NSW Police and NSW Department of Justice.

Therefore it is not unlikely that former Treasurer and now Premier Dominic Perottet would have utilised a shell company like his Transport Asset Holding Entity (TAHE) to house quarantine expenses while the accounting, and legal issues described above are resolved.

If so then as with the TAHE those costs might well be hidden and not reflected in NSW budgets. 



TO BE READ WITH  


Is there a NSW Health Quarantine Fee Entity to rival Perrotet's Transport Asset Holding Entity - Did Treasurer (now Premier) Perrotet create another shell company to house NSW Quarantine costs?


October 14, 2021

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

 

                                   Premier Dominic Perrotet, the former Treasurer

The SMH revealed in June 2021: 

The NSW government has attempted to cover up how it artificially inflated the state’s budgets by tens of billions of dollars after it shifted the rail network’s costs onto a corporation that still hasn’t been able to properly operate six years after it was launched

The corporation, known as the Transport Asset Holding Entity (TAHE), was part of a plan hatched in 2014 to set up a shell corporation to shift billions of dollars of expenses off the state budget and into a new rail body.

NSW Treasury was able to use the corporation, with the approval of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, to inflate the budget to help mask the government slipping into deficit in 2018.


Premier Dominic Perrotet  was Treasurer from 2017 to 2021; he succeeded Gladys Berejiklian, who was Transport Minister from 2011 to 2015, and then Treasurer, before she became Premier, until two weeks ago when she was succeeded by Perrotet.


The accounting of NSW Quarantine Fees seems so murky that the question has to be asked: Is there a NSW Health Quarantine Fee Entity to rival  Perrotet's  Transport Asset Holding Entity and did Treasurer (now Premier) Perrotet create another shell company  to house NSW Quarantine costs?



TO  BE READ WITH 

Without enabling legislation, NSW Health & Sydney Local Health District cannot record as revenue anything received from quarantined travellers- With legislation, NSW Health & SLHD cannot record as revenue a fine or penalty collected and enforced by Victor Dominello's Revenue NSW

October 12, 2021

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 



                            SLHD CEO Teresa Anderson AM  has ultimate responsibility for signing 
                             off SLHD's financial statements 















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