[Andrew Butcher]

Hi everyone

Revenue NSW has released this webinar regarding the commencement of the ESF preliminary land classifications.

Webinar

I recommend you take the time to watch this to get ahead of what is going to be required.

Thank you.

Regards,
Andrew

[Dallas McConnell]

Thanks Andrew,

Two months is not a long time to get this done, from memory we had a project officer on a 6-12 month contract to categorise our land previously, we will have 7 years of land data to categorise along with checks of the previous data to ensure its still valid.

Regards,
Dallas

[Andrew Butcher]

Hi Dallas

I know, when I was first contacted about this it was in May and the question was could councils do this work within three months. The commencement date was suggested as early September kick off which I thought would be suitable provided Treasury contacted the RP as soon as possible.

We have assembled a small team (due to a restriction on numbers) that covers both regional and metro councils and the three major software vendors (Pathway, Tech-1 and Authority) to provide advice on the supporting manual and software solutions.

The first meeting was convened on 29 August 2024 by Treasury and Revenue NSW, and we have met with them each week since. As delays were occurring, we looked to an extension and were advised that the due date (2 December 2024) has been set in the guidelines and signed off by the Minister and could not be altered.

We will continue to try to make this easy as possible, given the time constraints and I wholly support your concerns due to the limited time.

Hope you are well and keeping safe.

Regards,
Andrew

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