Program · Outcome 1: Confidence in the administration of aspects of Australia’s taxation and superannuation systems, including through helping people understand their rights and obligations, improving ease of compliance and access to benefits, and managing non-compliance with the law; and in delivering effective and efficient business registry services
Program 1.12: Private Health Insurance Rebate
The objective of the Private Health Insurance Rebate is to provide access to a benefit to eligible individuals with private health insurance and to act as an incentive to take up private health insurance. The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing has policy responsibility for the program, and the administration of the program is split between the ATO and registered health insurers, depending on the claim method.
Australian Taxation Office, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 258 reported
$300m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$14m (+4.7%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
AusTender and GrantConnect record the agency, not the program, so contracts and grants are shown on the entity page.
Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taxation Administration Act 1953 - section 16 (Non-refund items) | administered | $286m | $300m | +$14m +4.7% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1273 |