Technical proposals: the bill also includes a number of technical amendments which will also contribute to a better, more efficient child support scheme. These include proposals such as improvements to the estimation provisions to make them fairer. Normally, child support is assessed on a person's income from the previous year; however, people whose income has decreased by 15 percent or more can provide Inland Revenue with an estimate of their current year income to base their child support assessments on. If a person makes an assessment more than once a year, they could be assessed on income which is actually greater than what they earned in some periods, leading, of course, to an unfair outcome. So the bill proposes an amendment to the end-of-year square-up provisions to try and arrive at a more accurate reconciliation for such parents. 