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Once you have completed the registration form for ROS, you will receive an email with instructions to activate your account on our Identity Access Management (IAM) platform called Okta. The Okta platform provides strengthened security and single-sign-on functionality to our systems.
We will provide you with one username and password for an online account. Your account will give you access to all of the operations for which you lodge royalty returns.
Enter your bank account details when you go online and keep them up-to-date.
If you can't see all of your operations on your online account, contact us.
Help with online services
The user guides below provide instructions on accessing the system, resetting your password, lodging a return and lodging a nil return.
Coal annual and monthly returns
For the 2022-23 financial year please contact Royalties for the guide.
Interest is calculated daily, from the date on which the royalty should have been paid until the day on which the royalty is paid.
The penalty is a percentage of the unpaid royalty.
Who must lodge and pay royalty
Coal and minerals
The holder of a mining lease or sublease is liable to lodge returns and pay royalty to the Crown on publicly and privately owned minerals that are recovered by the holder under the lease.
Petroleum
The holder of a petroleum title must pay royalty to the Crown in respect of all petroleum recovered by the holder of the title in the area comprised in the title.
If petroleum is recovered under a petroleum title or under a mining lease for coal, the prescribed annual rate of royalty is 10% of the value at the well-head of the petroleum.
Your responsibility
Royalty returns are lodged based on 'self-assessment'. This means it is the responsibility of the lease/title holder to lodge their returns and pay the correct amount of royalty by the due date.
If you hold a mining lease or sublease, you must lodge returns and pay a royalty on publicly and privately-owned minerals that are recovered.
If you have acquired a mining lease by transfer, you must pay duty on that transfer.
If you hold a petroleum title, you must lodge returns and pay a royalty for the petroleum recovered.
We're here to help
If you make a mistake when lodging or paying royalties, go to ‘create new revision’ for the return period that contains the error and make the necessary changes.
If you need help with revising a past lodgement, contact us.