The AMA today welcomed the Government's updated advice that revised rural incentive payments to rural doctors will not be subject to 46.5 per cent PAYE withholding tax. Rural doctors were recently told that they would be hit with the high tax rate when the Department of Health and Ageing advised that it had consolidated the Rural Retention Program and the Registrars Rural Incentives Payment Scheme as well as a new relocation grants scheme into a single incentives scheme called the General Practice Rural Incentives Program (GPRIP)...
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