Tax Laws Amendment (2010 GST Administration Measures No. 2) Act 2010 (74 of 2010)

Schedule 3   Tax invoices

A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

3   After section 48-55

Insert:

48-57 Tax invoices that are required to identify recipients

(1) A document issued for a supply is taken to be a tax invoice if:

(a) it would not, but for this section, be a tax invoice because it does not contain enough information to enable the identity, or the *ABN, of the *recipient of the supply to be clearly ascertained; and

(b) there is no other reason why it would not be a tax invoice; and

(c) the *representative member of a *GST group is entitled under section 48-45 to an input tax credit for the *creditable acquisition relating to the supply; and

(d) the document contains enough information to enable the identity of at least one of the following to be clearly ascertained:

(i) the GST group;

(ii) the representative member;

(iii) another entity that is or was a *member of the GST group, if the representative member would still have been entitled under section 48-45 to that input tax credit if that other entity had been the recipient of the supply.

Note: Subparagraph (d)(iii) ensures that a member of the GST group identified in the document was a member of the group at the relevant time for the supply in question.

(2) However, any obligation that the supplier of a *taxable supply has under subsection 29-70(2) is an obligation to give to the *recipient of the supply a document that would be a *tax invoice for the supply even if subsection (1) of this section had not been enacted.

Note: This subsection ensures that a recipient's entitlement to a tax invoice, including (if subparagraph 29-70(1)(c)(ii) requires it) an entitlement to a tax invoice that enables the recipient's identity or the recipient's ABN to be clearly ascertained, is unaffected by this section.

(3) This section has effect despite section 29-70 (which is about tax invoices).