A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999
Note:
The special rules in this Part mainly modify the operation of Part 2-6 , but they may affect other Parts of Chapter 2 in minor ways.
Division 153 - Agents etc. and insurance brokers
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Hide history noteAct No 32 of 2006, s 3 and Sch 4 item 21 contained the following transitional provision, effective 6 April 2006.
Transitional provision
(1)
This item applies if:
(a)
a supplier of telecommunications supplies entered into an arrangement under section
153-50
of the
A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999
before 6 April 2006; and
(b)
the arrangement applies wholly or partly to prepaid phone cards or facilities; and
(c)
to the extent that the arrangement applies to those cards or facilities, section
153-55
of that Act did not apply to the supply of those cards or facilities merely because:
(i)
the supply was not a taxable supply; or
(ii)
the supply was not a taxable supply and another party to the arrangement was not an agent of the supplier of telecommunications supplies.
(2)
To the extent that the arrangement applies to supplies of prepaid phone cards or facilities made on or after 6 April 2006, the arrangement is taken to have effect under Subdivision
153-B
of the
A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999
as if:
(a)
those supplies were taxable supplies; and
(b)
if subparagraph (1)(c)(ii) applies
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that other party supplies those cards or facilities as the agent of the supplier of telecommunications supplies.
The Commissioner may determine in writing that:
(a) supplies of a specified kind to third parties that any entity (the intermediary ) makes or facilitates (including by issuing * invoices relating to, or receiving * consideration for, such supplies) on behalf of any other entity (the principal ); or
(b) acquisitions of a specified kind from third parties that any entity (the intermediary ) makes or facilitates (including by providing consideration for such acquisitions) on behalf of any other entity (the principal );
are taken to be supplies or acquisitions that are of a kind to which an arrangement of a kind referred to in section 153-50 applies, and that are made in accordance with that arrangement.
(2)
The determination has effect accordingly, unless either the intermediary or the principal notifies the other in writing, or both notify each other in writing, that:
(a) any supplies to third parties that the intermediary makes or facilitates (including by issuing * invoices relating to, or receiving * consideration for, such supplies) on the principal ' s behalf are not supplies to which such an arrangement applies; and
(b) any acquisitions from third parties that the intermediary makes or facilitates (including by providing consideration for such acquisitions) on the principal ' s behalf are not acquisitions to which such an arrangement applies.
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