Supporting documents for northbound goods claim

You must submit documents to support your Tasmanian Freight Equalisation Scheme northbound goods claim. If you don’t submit all the documents, we may reject your claim.

You must keep the supporting documents for 5 years.

Domestic goods

These are goods that you intend to either:

• permanently use yourself
• sell.

To support your claim for these goods, you must submit a copy of the following documents with your claim:

• invoices from the freight forwarder, shipping company, or freight broker charging you for the freight costs
• consignment notes if the invoices don’t contain the shipment details
• other documentation that supports your claim, for example a delivery docket, purchase order, supplier invoice, weigh bridge docket, packing slip.

These supporting documents must show the following shipping details:

• transport company
• date of shipment
• origin and destination
• transport task
• goods shipped
• invoice number
• consignment number, if applicable
• freight amount you paid
• if refrigerated or dry
• container or trailer length, if a full container load
• number of containers or trailers, if a full container load
• number of pallets, if applicable
• number of head, livestock claims only
• tonnes and cubic metres.

Other market goods

These are goods that are transhipped on mainland Australia before being transported to other markets.

Your goods are considered transhipped if they’re shipped from Tasmania to mainland Australia and offloaded from the ship and any of the following apply:

• they’re shipped outside Australia within 6 months, this can be on a separate voyage on the same ship or on a different ship
• they’re airfreighted outside Australia within 6 months
• you don’t know their final destination when you make your TFES claim
• they’re transported outside Australia more than 6 months after the date of their original shipment
• you don’t know what date they’ll be transported outside Australia when you make your TFES claim.

To support your claim for these goods, you must submit a copy of the following documents with your claim:

• evidence of transhipment such as a Customs Declaration Number, Bill of Lading, Waybill, Air Waybill, or similar
• invoices from the freight forwarder, shipping company, or freight broker charging you for the freight costs
• consignment notes if the invoices don’t contain the shipment details
• other documentation that supports your claim, for example a delivery docket, purchase order, supplier invoice, weigh bridge docket, packing slip.

These supporting documents must show the following shipping details:

• transport company
• date of shipment
• port of origin and first Australian port
• goods shipped
• invoice number
• consignment number, if applicable
• evidence of transhipment
• freight amount you paid
• container or trailer length, if a full container load
• number of containers or trailers, if a full container load
• number of pallets, if applicable
• number of head, livestock claims only
• tonnes and cubic metres.