How to use the Regulatory burden measure | Guidance notes
Calculate costs screen
Your checklist!
Collect this information to calculate your costs successfully.
Proposal info
Do you have:
- existing legislation
- exposure drafts
- election commitments
- ministerials
- discussion papers, research reports, feedback from businesses and so on?
Stakeholder info
Do you know:
- The target group/s by location, industry, size, etc. Will community organisations or members of the community be affected?
- The number of businesses, community organisations or individuals in each target group?
- The characteristics of businesses in each target group?
- The size of the businesses you're costing (info from the Australian Bureau of Statistics):
- Small business: if employing less than 20 workers.
- Medium business: if employing 20 or more workers, less than 200 workers.
- Large business: if employing 200 or more workers.
- Community organisations: Any organisation engaged in charitable or other community-based activity operating under Australian law and not established for the purpose of making a profit.
Task info
Do you have / know:
- For each option, a list of tasks those affected will need to perform. The cost categories will help you think about the tasks a segment may need to perform. (Tasks can be split into ongoing and start-up.)
- Who will perform each task? For example, a manager, an employee, and/or an outsourced entity?
- The number of businesses, community members, government sectors affected by an activity.
- The number of people performing an activity.
- The number of times the activity is performed per year.
- The average time each staff needs to do the activity (in hours).
- The labour cost (wage + non-wage labour costs) to perform each activity.
- If the business, local or state government or community member needs to purchase a product (equipment) or service (legal advice), how much will it cost?