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Mandate

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Payments

What are Payments?

Payments describes the services that manage government payments. It includes incoming and outgoing payments to individuals, businesses and authorised representatives.

Objectives

To centralise all payments management processes into a single, digital platform to increase efficiency and reduce complexity for government service delivery.

Policy Elements

Policy:
POL9
Payments policy (Position) Mandate:
Unendorsed
Status:
Consulting

  • Avoid investments in new or standalone payments solutions

  • Reuse existing investment in payments 

Domains

This capability is part of the following domain.
DOM3

Government Service Delivery

Policies

The following policies have requirements that impact this capability.
Payments policy (Position)
POL9
Mandate: Unendorsed
Status: Consulting

Designs

The following designs include examples of how digital solutions in this capability can be delivered.

Government EasyPay

DES86

Lead Agency: Reserve Bank of Australia

Government EasyPay is a telephone and Internet collection service available to Australian Government agencies

Revenue Receipting Capability

DES6

Lead Agency: Department of Home Affairs

The Revenue Receipting Platform is an inbound payments platform designed to receive payments and temporary payments on a large scale, with repayment refunds, pay later billing, POS, EFTPOS, direct debit and the reversal capabilities. The Revenue Receipting Platform is intended for reuse by…

Single Touch Payroll

DES62

Lead Agency: Australian Taxation Office

Single Touch Payroll (STP), is an Australian Government initiative to reduce employers' reporting burdens to government agencies With STP, you report employees' payroll information to us each time you pay them through STP-enabled software. Payroll information includes: salaries and wages; pay as…

Payment Utility

DES45

Lead Agency: Services Australia

Technology Type: SAP products

Payment Utility is a SAP-based centralised payments platform that delivers payments to recipients through multiple methods.
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