Estimate your ACMA licence fees

Every rate comes from the ACMA apparatus licence fee schedule, July 2026 edition. The tax is the rate per kHz for your frequency band and geographic location, multiplied by your bandwidth and adjusted for power, with the minimum tax applied to each spectrum access. For a licence of other than a year the total is then proportioned by days, and the minimum applies again to the licence, as the Transmitter Licence Tax Determination 2025 sets out.

No. It is an estimate of the fees payable to the ACMA. The fee schedule is published as a guide, and the ACMA's own assessment is what applies. Our coordination and lodgement work is quoted separately when you request a service.

One right to transmit: a frequency, bandwidth, site and power. Tax and administrative charges apply to each one, so a link with a transmit frequency at each end has two. Receive accesses are only chargeable when the licence has no transmit access.

The tax is weighted by how congested the spectrum is where you operate. The same 12.5 kHz land mobile channel costs far more in Sydney than in a remote area, which is deliberate: higher taxes in high demand areas encourage efficient use of spectrum.

Before the ACMA issues a licence, the frequency has to be coordinated so your service neither causes nor suffers interference. The ACMA can do that, or an accredited person can, issuing a frequency assignment certificate that cuts the ACMA's issue charge substantially. Our director is an ACMA accredited person, so these figures assume we do it, and the estimate shows what the ACMA would charge if it made the assignment instead. Where the schedule sets no accredited person charge for a licence, the standard charge applies.

Area-wide and PMTS Class B licences are taxed per MHz per head of population. The ACMA publishes those population figures in a separate document, not in the fee schedule, so we ask you for the figure rather than guess at one.