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Goods and Services Tax Ruling

GSTR 2000/3A - Addendum

Goods and services tax: transitional documents - entitlement to an input tax credit without a tax invoice

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Addendum

At page 12

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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

A NEW TAX SYSTEM (GOODS AND SERVICES TAX) ACT 1999

DETERMINATION

Under section 29-10(3) of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 and subsection 4(1) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 I make the following determination:

Citation

1. This determination is the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Waiver of Tax Invoice Requirement Determination (No. 1) 2000.

Commencement

2. This determination commences on the date the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 commences.

Circumstance where the requirement for a tax invoice does not apply

3. The following circumstance is a circumstance of a kind in which the requirement for a tax invoice under subsection 29-10(3) of the Act does not apply:

(a)
a transitional document, and any other document issued by the relevant supplier that relates to the transitional document, is held by a relevant recipient; and
(b)
the transitional document contains the following information, or, where the relevant recipient holds a transitional document and another document, the documents together contain the following information:

(i)
the name or business name of the relevant supplier;
(ii)
the address or ACN of the relevant supplier;
(iii)
the date on which the document was issued by the relevant supplier;
(iv)
if the GST payable on the taxable supply is equal to 1/11th of the price - either:

(A)
the price of the taxable supply, and a statement indicating that the price includes GST; or
(B)
the amount of GST payable;

(v)
if the GST payable on the taxable supply is less than 1/11th of the price - the amount of the GST payable.

Definitions

4. (1) The following expressions are defined for the purposes of this determination:

ACN (short for "Australian Company Number") is the number given by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to a company on registration under the Corporations Law;

business name means a name registered under the relevant State and Territory legislation that provides for the registration of business names;

relevant recipient , in relation to a creditable acquisition, means:

(a)
where the acquisition is made by an entity - that entity; or
(b)
where the acquisition is made by an entity through an agent of the entity - the agent;

relevant supplier, in relation to a taxable supply, means:

(a)
where the supply is made by an entity (other than a supply of an insurance policy made by an insurer through an insurance broker acting on behalf of the recipient of the supply) - that entity;
(b)
where the supply is of an insurance policy made by an insurer through an insurance broker acting on behalf of the recipient of the supply - the insurance broker;
(c)
where the supply is made by an entity through an agent of the entity - the agent;

the Act means the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999;

transitional document means a document issued by a relevant supplier before 1 July 2000 in relation to a creditable acquisition made by a relevant recipient on or after 1 July 2000.

(2) Other the expressions in this determination have the same meaning as in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.

 

Dated this 14th day of June 2000.

Peter Chochula

Senior Tax Counsel

Goods and Services Tax Program

Delegate of the Commissioner

Commissioner of Taxation
14 June 2000

References

ATO references:
NO T2000/4313

ISSN 1443-5160

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