Cancelling your ABN
You must notify us of changes to your details on the Australian Business Register (ABR) within 28 days.
If you permanently close your business, you need to cancel your ABNExternal Link.
Before cancelling your ABN, first ensure you have met all the lodgment, reporting and payment obligations you have to the government agencies you deal with. Your tax obligations may include lodging activity statements, PAYG withholding reports and taxable payments annual reports, repaying refunds of GST credits and paying outstanding tax debts.
Cancelling your ABN will also cancel:
- any authorised relationship between an ABN and your Digital ID (such as myID)
- your registration for GST, luxury car tax, wine equalisation tax and fuel tax credits.
Cancelling other registrations
If you aren't cancelling your ABN, before you cancel other registrations you should work out which registrations you need.
You may need to cancel: