You may find that you have an overlap of days when you don't have to pay the MLS.
Example – Overlap
An example is where you and your dependants (if applicable):
- had private patient hospital cover from the start of the year until cancelling it on 1 February 2022, and
- were in a Medicare levy exemption category from 15 January 2022 to the end of the financial year.
- When calculating the number of days, you would double-count some days if you included the overlapping period – 15 January to 1 February 2022.
Where there is an overlap, you work out the number of days you don’t have to pay the surcharge as follows:
- Number of days with private patient hospital cover:
- You do not have to pay the surcharge for the days that you and all your dependants (if applicable) had private patient hospital cover – from 1 July 2021 to 1 February 2022.
- To work out the number of days, you use our Calculate days tool (you may prefer another calculation method) and enters the following:
- Period start date – 01/07/2021
- Period end date – 01/02/2022
- The result is 216 days.
- Number of days in a Medicare levy exemption category:
- You do not have to pay the surcharge for the days that you and all your dependants (if applicable) were in a Medicare levy exemption category excluding the days you also had private patient hospital cover (counted above) – from 2 February 2022 to 30 June 2022.
- To work out the number of days, you use our Calculate days tool (you may prefer another calculation method) and enters the following:
- Period start date – 02/02/2022
- Period end date – 30/06/2022
- The result is 149 days.
Add the number of days calculated for the two periods which is 216 + 149 = 365.
You would enter the total of 365 into myTax at Number of days you do not have to pay the surcharge.
End of example