Australian Research Council Act 2001 - Linkage - Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities - Guidelines for funding in 2003
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5 Funding
The minimum grant under Linkage–Infrastructure is $100 000, with a total of approximately $24 million being available for distribution in 2003. Additional allocations of expenditure cannot be accommodated once the Minister has approved the grant recommendations, as there are no additional funds available.
Funding is normally for one year only and is not recurrent, except where international agreements and national facilities are involved. All applicants must apply for funding each year. Where the ARC has accepted a case for continuing funding, the applicant will be required to submit a modified short format application each year until review.
International agreements
Where international agreements are involved, long-term funding will be available only if there are significant benefits to Australia by way of multi-year access to a major facility not otherwise available to Australians. Under such circumstances, the maximum funding period sought must be identified in the text of the initial application. If funding is required for more than five years, a review of the project will be conducted early in the fourth year, before any application for further funding is considered.
National facilities
Where national facilities are involved, the maximum funding period sought must be identified in the text of the initial application for funding and, if funding is sought for more than three years, a review of the project will be conducted early in the third year and before any application for further funding is considered. All bids for funding projects lasting more than one year should include a strategy for achieving independence from Linkage–Infrastructure funding.
Government-related entities do not pay GST on the funding transaction with the ARC. However, non government-related entities which are liable to pay GST on the transaction with the ARC will receive base funding plus GST.
If the organisation is able to claim input tax credits for the GST component in the cost of goods and services purchased in the course of carrying out the Project, then the GST component of these costs should not be included in Project cost.
Therefore the ARC will make GST adjustments to payments depending on whether the funding has been provided to a government-related or non-government-related entity.
Applicants are therefore requested to provide their budgets exclusive of GST.