New enrolment form questions

If you provide a designated service with a geographical link to Australia you must enrol. Learn more about enrolling with us.

This page provides a list of the enrolment questions you’ll be asked when you enrol through AUSTRAC Online. 

On this page

Where you operate

Which of the following describes your link to Australia? 

  • Do you carry out or propose to carry out designated services at or through a permanent establishment in Australia? Yes, No
  • Are you a resident of Australia and do you provide or propose to provide designated services at or through a permanent establishment in a foreign country? Yes, No
  • Are you a subsidiary of a company that is a resident of Australia and do you provide or propose to provide designated services at or through a permanent establishment in a foreign country? Yes, No
  • Do you operate (or intend to operate) as a Remittance Network Provider, by giving other people or businesses the systems, branding or support they need to provide remittance services in Australia?  Yes, No

Reporting group

If you are part of a reporting group, please confirm the following:

a. If you are the lead entity, do you know if any members of your reporting group been issued an AUSTRAC account number (AAN)?

b. If you are a member entity, do you know if your lead entity been issued an AAN? 

Or if you are not part of a reporting group, please select 'no'.

Provide your response to the statement above Yes, No

If yes -

Are you the lead entity of the reporting group? Yes, No

  • If yes ‒ Provide member entities
    Provide the legal name and AAN (AUSTRAC Account Number) for each business member of the reporting group.

    Alternatively, if you do not yet have this information or it is not recorded in our system, you can add reporting group member entities in AUSTRAC Online after completing this enrolment application.

    • If no ‒ Provide lead entity details

    Provide the legal name and AAN (AUSTRAC Account Number) for the business that is lead entity of the reporting group.

    Alternatively, if you do not yet have this information or it is not recorded in our system, you can nominate the lead entity of the reporting group in AUSTRAC Online after completing this enrolment application. 

 

Business industry type

We have listed the most common industries that provide designated services. Select the one that best describes your business. Choose ‘None of the above’ if you don't see what you do listed.

Which of the following best describes your business or principal activity?

  • Banking and financial services
  • Business and professional services
  • Buying and selling luxury precious goods
  • Gambling services
  • Hospitality and tourism
  • Money service businesses
  • Property and real estate services
  • Public sector
  • Retail and service outlets
  • Superannuation and insurance
  • Virtual asset services
  • Other

Banking and financial services

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Bank
  • Building society
  • Credit card issuer or acquirer
  • Credit union
  • Custodian
  • Derivatives dealer
  • Finance corporation
  • Financial advisor
  • Foreign currency services
  • Friendly society
  • Fund manager
  • Housing society
  • Merchant bank
  • Mortgage manager or provider
  • Non-bank financier
  • Pastoral house services
  • Securities dealer

 

Business and professional services

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Accountant
  • Conveyancer
  • Lawyer
  • Trustee service provider

Buying and selling luxury precious goods

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Jeweller
  • Pawn broker or second-hand goods dealer
  • Precious metal dealer
  • Precious stone dealer
  • Watch dealer

Gambling services

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Betting exchange
  • Bookmaker (corporate)
  • Bookmaker (on-course)
  • Casino
  • Totalisator

Hospitality and tourism

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Hotel
    • Pubs and clubs
    • Restaurant
    • Travel agent

Money service businesses

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Payroll service
  • Remittance provider

Property and real estate services

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Buyer's agent
  • Property developer
  • Real estate agent

Public

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • AUSTRAC
  • AUSTRAC as co-ordinator
  • Cash carrier
  • Concerned citizen
  • For special AUSTRAC dealers only
  • Payment service

Retail and service outlets

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Courier service
  • Grocery or convenience store
  • Mobile phone services
  • Newsagents
  • Post office
  • Tobacconist

Superannuation and insurance

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Insurance
  • Superannuation manager or provider

Virtual asset services

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Virtual asset exchange provider
  • Virtual asset financial service provider
  • Virtual asset safekeeping service provider
  • Virtual asset value transfer service provider

Other

Select a sub-category for your chosen business or principal activity

  • Government body
  • Other

Designated services

The business activities AUSTRAC regulates are called designated services and have been identified because they pose a risk for money laundering and terrorism financing. 

The following questions will identify which specific designated services your business provides.

Virtual asset services

Warning: Under the AML/CTF Act, you must not provide registrable designated virtual asset services until you are enrolled and registered as a virtual asset service provider. On completion of this enrolment, you will be required to complete and submit your registration application.

Virtual asset services include: 

  • exchanging virtual assets for money (and vice versa), or making arrangements for this type of exchange (item 50A)
  • exchanging virtual assets for virtual assets, or making arrangements for this type of exchange (item 50B)
  • providing a virtual asset safekeeping service (item 46A)
  • accepting instructions to transfer virtual assets on behalf of customers or make transferred virtual assets available to customers (items 29–30)
  • providing financial services in connection with the offer or sale of a virtual asset where the business is participating in the offer or sale (item 50C).

Do you provide or propose to provide registrable virtual asset services? Yes, No

If yes ‒ 
Select which virtual assets services you provide or propose to provide

  • Financial services connected to virtual asset offer/sale
  • Value transfer services
  • Virtual asset exchange services (with money)
  • Virtual asset exchange services (with other virtual assets)
  • Virtual asset safekeeping services

Indicate when you commenced (or expect to commence) providing virtual asset services [date]

Remittance services

Warning: Under the AML/CTF Act, you must not provide registrable designated remittance services until you are enrolled and registered as a remittance service provider. On completion of this enrolment, you will be required to complete and submit your registration application. 

Remittance services include the following financial services:

  • accepting and giving effect to instructions from customers to send funds to a recipient in another location, as a non-bank (items 31-32)
  • operating a network of providers (as a non-bank) who accept instructions from customers to send funds to a recipient in another location (item 32A)

 

Do you provide remittance services to customers as part of providing another designated service? 

Some businesses provide remittance services as part of providing another designated service. For example, they may send funds overseas on behalf of their customers, but only as a secondary service to their core business. AUSTRAC’s view is that in these circumstances the funds transfers do not constitute a designated remittance arrangement.

If you provide remittance services incidentally to providing another designated service AND all funds transfers undertaken by the business are conducted through a financial institution, you may not need to register as providing a designated remittance service. Our website has more information about remittance services. 

Note: This does not apply to remittance services provided by licensed casinos and currency exchange businesses.

Do you provide or propose to provide registrable remittance services? Yes, No

If yes ‒ 
Select how you provide or propose to provide remittance services

  • As a remittance network provider, operating a network of affiliates by providing the systems and services that enable affiliates to provide remittance services
    • As an affiliate of a remittance network, providing services to customers as part of a remittance network facilitated by a remittance network provider
      • As an independent remittance dealer, providing remittance services to customers using its own systems and processes

Indicate when you commenced (or expect to commence) providing remittance services.

Other designated services

Do you provide or propose to provide professional, real estate, financial, gambling, bullion or precious metals designated services? Yes, No

If yes ‒ 

Professional services

  • Asset management
  • Business structuring services
  • Buying, selling, or transferring a company or legal entity
  • Conveyancing services
  • Facilitating business equity and debt financing
  • Facilitating or performing roles in corporate/legal arrangements
  • Nominee shareholder services
  • Providing registered or principal address services
  • Shelf company services

Real estate services

  • Sales or transfers of real estate ‒ non-brokered
  • Sales, purchases or transfers of real estate ‒ brokered

Gambling services

  • Betting accounts
  • Betting services
  • Games of chance or skill (excluding gaming machines and lotteries)
  • Gaming machines
  • Do you and your related entities have a licence (issued by the state/territories) to operate 15 or fewer gaming machines? Yes, No
  • Provide the total entitlement to operate gaming machines under all licences issued to you and any related reporting entities. Must be greater than zero

Gambling exchange services

  • Currency exchange by gambling service providers
  • Exchange of gaming chips or tokens for money or virtual assets

Bullion and precious metals, stones and products

  • Buy or sell bullion
  • Buy or sell precious metals, precious stones or precious products

Financial services

  • Financial advisory services
  • Intermediary services
  • Payroll services
    • As a holder of an Australian financial services licence, does the only service you offer involve making arrangements for a person to receive a designated service? Yes, No

Custodial and depository services

  • Custodial or depository services
  • Safe deposit box facilities

Financial instruments

  • Dealing in bills of exchange, promissory notes or letters of credit
  • Dealing in securities, derivatives or foreign exchange contracts
  • Issuing bills of exchange, promissory notes or letters of credit
  • Issuing or selling securities or derivatives
  • Redeeming bearer bonds
    • Are you a market generator as per the national electricity rules (NER)? Yes, No

Financial products

  • Account and deposit taking services
  • Chequebook access facilities
  • Debit card access facilities
  • Factoring receivables
  • Finance leasing
  • Forfaiting bills of exchange or promissory notes
  • Guaranteeing loans
  • Hire purchase
  • Issuing money or postal orders
  • Loan services
  • Stored value card services
  • Value transfer services

Foreign exchange services

  • Currency exchange services
  • Issuing travellers cheques

Insurance and superannuation services

  • Life or sinking fund insurance services
  • Providing pensions or annuities
  • Retirement savings account services
  • Superannuation funds or approved deposit funds

Indicate when you commenced (or expect to commence) providing the selected designated services [date]

The next question should only appear if you don't provide designated services. 

Is the business the lead entity for a reporting group (or intends to be), and does not provide a designated service? Yes, No

If no – 

Information

The responses that you have provided indicate that you currently do not have obligations under the AML/CTF Act.

  • If this is not correct, please check your responses.
  • If you previously had obligations under the AML/CTF Act, you still need to complete any outstanding transaction or compliance reports (if applicable).

If the box is checked, that is the end of the form.

Business details

In this section, you are required to provide all applicable unique identifiers (names you will provide designated services under), as well as your:

  • Australian Business Number (ABN)
  • Australian Company Number (ACN)
  • Australian Registered Body Number (ARBN)
  • Australian Registered Scheme Number (ARSN)
  • and/or unique ID given by a Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation-accredited organisation and relevant details to complete your enrolment. This information will be used for the reporting entity roll.

 
For Remittance Service Providers and Virtual Asset Service Providers, the information is also used for the Remittance Sector Register and Virtual Asset Service Provider Register.

  • Business search
  • Provide details manually

Does the business have an ACN, ARBN and/or ARSN? Yes, No 

If yes - 

  • ACN (if applicable)
  • ARBN (if applicable)
  • ARSN (if applicable)

Does the business have a unique identifier given by an organisation accredited by the Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF), and information that identifies that organisation? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Search for unique identifier (e.g. legal entity identifier (LEI))
  • Provide unique identifier manually

Do you have any registered or other names under which you provide or will provide your designated services?  Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Business name 1
  • Please specify
  • If you provided details using the Business Search / ABN Lookup, you do not need to add any of the names that are shown in the table below.
  • Add business name

Are you a member of any associations that represent the interests of your industry, profession or trade? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Association 1
  • Association name
  • Add association name

Business structure

Are you a member of a corporate group? Yes, No

If yes (these questions appear as Q4 & Q5)

  • Are you a related body corporate of an authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI)? Yes, No
  • Are you a related body corporate of a registered financial sector entity? Yes, No

Are you an authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI)? Yes, No

Are you a registered financial sector entity? Yes, No

Are you a foreign company or a subsidiary of a foreign company? Yes, No

Select your legal form

You need to choose your business’s legal form.

  • Association
  • Body corporate/company
  • Co-operative
  • Corporation sole
  • Government body
  • Partnership
  • Sole trader
  • Trust
  • Other

Association

Provide the details of all individuals with responsibility for the governance and executive decisions of the association.

Contact 1

  • Individual details
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former name 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Date of birth

Identification document

Relevant Australian government body or foreign government body

What is the unique identifier for the individual given by an Australian government body or a government body of a foreign country?

Residential address

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Is this individual a beneficial owner of the applicant? Yes, No

Add Individual

Body corporate/Company

Provide the principal place of business in the country where the business is incorporated.

Principal place of business

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Registered address details

Provide the principal place of business in each country where the business is registered.

  • Address 1
  • What is your principal place of business or operations in Australia?
    • What is the address?
    • Enter address manually

Add more
Director details

  • Director 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former name 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Date of birth

Director identification number (if applicable)

Is this individual a beneficial owner of the applicant? Yes, No

Add director

Ultimate holding company details

Do you have an ultimate holding company? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Business search

Provide details using the ABN Lookup

  • Legal name
  • ABN
  • ACN/ARBN
  • Provide details manually

Does the business have an ACN, ARBN and/or ARSN? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • ACN (if applicable)
  • ARBN (if applicable)
  • ARSN (if applicable)

Does the business have a unique identifier given by an organisation accredited by the Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF), and information that identifies that organisation? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • GLEIF search
  • Provide unique identifier manually

Principal place of business

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Registered office address

Is the address same as principal place of business? Yes, No

If no - 

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

What countries is the ultimate holding company resident of?

  • Location 1
  • Country

Add country

Co-operative

Provide the details of all individuals with responsibility for the governance and executive decisions of the co-operative.

  • Individual 1
  • Individual details
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former name 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Date of birth

Identification document

Relevant Australian government body or foreign government body

What is the unique identifier for the individual given by an Australian government body or a government body of a foreign country?

Residential address

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Is this individual a beneficial owner of the applicant? Yes, No

Add Individual

Corporation sole

Provide personal details of your nominated individual for your corporation sole.

Provide the principal place of business in the country where the business is incorporated.

Principal place of business

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Registered address details

Provide the principal place of business in each country where the business is registered.

  • Address 1
  • What is your principal place of business or operations in Australia?
    • What is the address?
    • Enter address manually

Add more

Director 1

  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former name 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Date of birth

Director identification number (if applicable)

Is this individual a beneficial owner of the applicant? Yes, No

Add director

Ultimate holding company details

Do you have an ultimate holding company? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Business search
  • Provide details manually

Does the business have an ACN, ARBN and/or ARSN? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • ACN (if applicable)
  • ARBN (if applicable)
  • ARSN (if applicable)

Does the business have a unique identifier given by an organisation accredited by the Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF), and information that identifies that organisation? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • GLEIF Search

Principal place of business

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Registered office address

Is the address same as principal place of business? Yes, No

If no - 

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

What countries is the ultimate holding company resident of?

Location 1

  • Country

Add Country

Government body

  • Is the applicant an Australian government body? Yes, No

Partnership

Provide details of all partners involved in the partnership.

Organisation 1

Partner type

  • Association
  • Body corporate/company
  • Co-operative
  • Individual
  • Trust
Association

Contact 1

  • Individual details
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former name 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Date of birth

Identification document

Relevant Australian government body or foreign government body

What is the unique identifier for the individual given by an Australian government body or a government body of a foreign country?

Residential address

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Is this individual a beneficial owner of the applicant? Yes, No

Add Individual

Add partner

Body corporate/company

Business search

Provide details manually

Does the business have an ACN, ARBN and/or ARSN? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • ACN (if applicable)
  • ARBN (if applicable)
  • ARSN (if applicable)

Does the business have a unique identifier given by an organisation accredited by the Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF), and information that identifies that organisation? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • GLEIF Search
  • Provide details manually

Provide the principal place of business in the country where the business is incorporated.

Principal place of business

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Business registration details

Registered address details

Provide the principal place of business in each country where the business is registered.

Address 1

What is your principal place of business or operations in Australia?

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Add more

Director details

  • Director 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former name 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Date of birth

Director identification number (if applicable)

Is this individual a beneficial owner of the applicant? Yes, No

  • Add director
  • Add partner
Co-operative

Provide the details of all individuals with responsibility for the governance and executive decisions of the co-operative.

Individual 1

Individual details

  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former name 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Add former name

Date of birth

Identification document

Relevant Australian government body or foreign government body

What is the unique identifier for the individual given by an Australian government body or a government body of a foreign country?

Residential address

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Is this individual a beneficial owner of the applicant? Yes, No

Add Individual

Add partner

Individual 

Individual details

  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former name 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Add former name   

Date of birth

Identification document

Relevant Australian government body or foreign government body

What is the unique identifier for the individual given by an Australian government body or a government body of a foreign country?

Residential address

What is the address?

  • Enter address manually

Add partner   

Trust

  • Business search
  • Provide details manually

Does the business have an ACN, ARBN and/or ARSN? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • ACN (if applicable)
  • ARBN (if applicable)
  • ARSN (if applicable)

Does the business have a unique identifier given by an organisation accredited by the Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF), and information that identifies that organisation? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • GLEIF search
  • Provide unique identifier manually

Type of trust

Has the trust previously been known under a different name? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former names
  • Former name 1
  • Name

Add former name

List of trustees

Organisation 1

Trustee type

  • Body corporate/company
  • Individual

Body corporate/company

Body corporate

  • Business search
  • Provide details manually

Does the business have an ACN, ARBN and/or ARSN? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • ACN (if applicable)
  • ARBN (if applicable)
  • ARSN (if applicable)

Does the business have a unique identifier given by an organisation accredited by the Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF), and information that identifies that organisation? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • GLEIF search
  • Provide unique identifier manually

Provide the principal place of business in the country where the business is incorporated

Principal place of business

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Business registration details

Registered address details

Provide the principal place of business in each country where the business is registered

Address 1

What is your principal place of business or operations in Australia?

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Add more

Director details

  • Director 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former name 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Date of birth

Director identification number (if applicable)

Is this individual a beneficial owner of the applicant? Yes, No

Add director

Add trustee

Add partner

Individual

Individual details

  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No

If yes - 

  • Former name 1
  • Given name(s)
  • Family name

Date of birth

Identification document

Relevant Australian government body or foreign government body

What is the unique identifier for the individual given by an Australian government body or a government body of a foreign country?

Residential address

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

Add trustee

Add partner   

Sole trader – no further information required

Trust

  • Type of trust
  • Has the trust previously been known under a different name? Yes, No
    • Yes
      • Former names
      • Former name 1
      • Name
      • Add Former name

  • List of trustees

    Organisation 1

    Trustee Type

    • Body corporate/company
    • Individual
  • Add trustee
Body corporate
  • Business search
  • Provide details manually
  • Does the business have an ACN, ARBN and/or ARSN? Yes, No
    • Yes
      • ACN (if applicable)
      • ARBN (if applicable)
      • ARSN (if applicable)
  • Does the business have a unique identifier given by an organisation accredited by the Global Legal Entity Identification Foundation (GLEIF), and information that identifies that organisation? Yes, No
    • Yes
      • GLEIF search
      • Provide unique identifier manually
  • Provide the principal place of business in the country where the business is incorporated
  • Principal place of business
    • What is the address?
    • Enter address manually

  • Business registration details

    Registered address details

    • Provide the principal place of business in each country where the business is registered
  • Address 1
  • What is your principal place of business or operations in Australia?
    • What is the address?
    • Enter address manually
  • Add more

  • Director details

    Director 1

    • Given name(s)
    • Family name
    • Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No
      • Yes
        • Former name 1
        • Given name(s)
        • Family name
    • Date of birth
    • Director identification number (if applicable)
    • Is this individual a beneficial owner of the applicant? Yes, No
  • Add director
  • Add trustee
  • Add partner

Individual

Individual details

  • Given name(s)
  • Family name
  • Does this individual have any former names? Yes, No
    • Yes
      • Former name 1
      • Given name(s)
      • Family name
  • Date of birth
  • Identification document
  • Relevant Australian government body or foreign government body
  • What is the unique identifier for the individual given by an Australian government body or a government body of a foreign country?

Residential address

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually
  • Add trustee
  • Add partner

Other

Provide further detail about your form

Beneficial owners

Beneficial owners

A beneficial owner is an individual who:
(a) ultimately owns (either directly or indirectly) 25% or more of the business; or
(b) controls (directly or indirectly) the business. Control refers to the ability to influence or direct business decision-making processes.

For trusts, this includes:

  • Trustees (or directors of corporate trustee)
  • Appointor/principal
  • Fixed beneficiaries with more than 25% entitlement

Learn more about determining ownership and control structures.

Beneficial owners you added earlier

  • Beneficial owners

Provide details of any other beneficial owners of the applicant

(A beneficial owner is someone who owns, or controls more than 25% of the business)

Additional Beneficial owner 1

  • Given name(s)
  • Family name
  • Date of birth
  • Add additional beneficial owner

Business contact

What is your principal place of business or operations in Australia?

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

If applicable, what is your registered office address?

  • What is the address?
  • Enter address manually

What is your telephone number?

For example, the primary telephone number to contact the business. Provide your country code for international numbers.

What is your email address?

For example, the primary email address to contact the business.

Provide domain names for all websites you provide or intend to provide designated services through

Website 1

Business operations 

Approximately how many full-time equivalent (FTE) people do you employ or engage (either paid or unpaid, and including labour hire staff)?

  • 1 ‒ 4 FTE
  • 5 ‒ 15 FTE
  • 15 ‒ 149 FTE
  • 150 ‒ 499 FTE
  • 500+ FTE

Are you an Australian resident? Yes, No

What was your approximate annual turnover for the last financial year?

  • $0 – we were pre-revenue last financial year
  • $1 – $249,999
  • $250,000 – $999,999
  • $1,000,000 – $4,999,990
  • $5,000,000 – $50,000,000
  • $50,000,000+

This next question only appears when the applicant is an Australian resident

Were you eligible for tax treatment as a ‘small business entity’ in the last financial year? Yes, No

AML/CTF compliance officer 

Notification of AML/CTF compliance officer

Who will be the business’ AML/CTF compliance officer?

If you have not appointed an AML/CTF compliance officer, provide the details of a primary contact who can receive AUSTRAC correspondence.
 
Please note, you must appoint an AML/CTF compliance officer within 28 days of providing designated services. You must also notify AUSTRAC within 14 days of that appointment. You must also ensure the appointed AML/CTF compliance officer meets the eligibility requirements (see our website for more information).

  • Given name(s)
  • Family name
  • Position/title
  • Telephone number
  • Provide country code for international numbers
  • Email
  • Postal address
    • What is the address?
    • Enter address manually
  • Declaration
  • I understand that any appointed AML/CTF compliance officer must meet the eligibility requirements under the AML/CTF Act and Rules and that I must notify AUSTRAC within 14 days of the appointment, or change, of the AML/CTF compliance officer.

Industry levy

Industry contribution

Total earnings

In this section, you will require your total earnings before tax, interest, depreciation and amortisation, derived from operations in Australia.

If you are part of a corporate group, you will also require the total earnings (before tax, interest, depreciation and amortisation) of any related leviable entities in the group, derived from operations in Australia. A leviable entity is an entity who is:

  • a reporting entity at any time in the previous financial year (within the meaning of section 5 of the AML/CTF Act)
  • not an exempt entity for the current year ‒ i.e. not exempt from the obligation to have and maintain an AML/CTF program
  • and as of 1 July of the current year (census date):
    • is entered on the reporting entities roll (under Part 3A of the AML/CTF Act), or
    • is required to be entered on the reporting entities roll (under section 51B of the AML/CTF Act)

For your last financial year, were the total earnings of the business A$100 million or more? Yes, No

Industry levy contact

Provide a business contact for matters relating to the AUSTRAC industry levy.

  • Same as AML/CTF officer
  • Someone else

Someone else

  • Given name(s)
  • Family name
  • Job title or position
  • Email

This guidance sets out how we interpret the Act, along with associated Rules and regulations. Australian courts are ultimately responsible for interpreting these laws and determining if any provisions of these laws are contravened. 

The examples and scenarios in this guidance are meant to help explain our interpretation of these laws. They’re not exhaustive or meant to cover every possible scenario.

This guidance provides general information and isn't a substitute for legal advice. This guidance avoids legal language wherever possible and it might include generalisations about the application of the law. Some provisions of the law referred to have exceptions or important qualifications. In most cases your particular circumstances must be taken into account when determining how the law applies to you.

Last updated: 11 Mar 2026
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