Goods and Services Tax Ruling

GSTR 2005/5W

Goods and services tax: arrangements of the kind described in Taxpayer Alert TA 2004/8: use of the Going Concern provisions and the Margin Scheme to avoid or reduce the Goods and Services Tax on the sale of new residential premises

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Notice of Withdrawal

Goods and Services Tax Ruling GSTR 2005/5 is withdrawn with effect from today.

1. This Ruling provides the Commissioner's view in relation to arrangements referred to in Taxpayer Alert TA 2004/8: Use of the Going Concern provisions and the Margin Scheme to avoid or reduce the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on the sale of new residential premises.

2. Subsection 75-11(5) was inserted into the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (GST Act) in 2005 to address the arrangements covered by this Ruling. Goods and Services Tax Ruling GSTR 2006/8 Goods and services tax: the margin scheme for supplies of real property acquired on or after 1 July 2000 provides the Commissioner's view on the application of subsection 75-11(5) of the GST Act.

3. The decision of the High Court in Commissioner of Taxation v. Unit Trend Services Pty Ltd [2013] HCA 16 confirmed that Division 165 of the GST Act operated to negate the GST benefit obtained by a scheme similar to the arrangements covered by this Ruling.

4. Accordingly, GSTR 2005/5 is no longer current and is therefore withdrawn.

Commissioner of Taxation
29 March 2017

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previously issued in draft form as GSTR 2004/D6

References

ATO references:
NO 1-AVJWI5W

ISSN: 2205-6157

Related Rulings/Determinations:

TR 2006/10
GSTR 2002/5
TD 92/124

Subject References:
enterprise
GST anti-avoidance
GST going concern
GST property and construction
GST margin scheme
residential premises

Business Line: ITX

Case References:
Aurora Developments Pty Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation
(2011) 192 FCR 519
[2011] FCA 232
(2011) 82 ATR 91
2011 ATC 20-250

C of T v. Hart
[2004] HCA 26
2004 ATC 4599
55 ATR 712

C of T v. Sleight
[2004] FCAFC 94
2004 ATC 4477
55 ATR 555

C of T v. Spotless Services Ltd
(1996) 186 CLR 404
96 ATC 5201
34 ATR 183

Commissioner of Inland Revenue v. Smiths City Group Limited
14 NZTC 9140

Other References:
Explanatory Memorandum to the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Bill 1998
Taxpayer Alert TA 2004/8: Use of the Going Concern provisions and the Margin Scheme to avoid or reduce the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on the sale of new residential premises

GSTR 2005/5W history

	Date:	Version:	Change:
	14 September 2005	Original ruling
	31 October 2012	Consolidated ruling	Addendum
	27 March 2013	Consolidated ruling	Addendum
You are here	29 March 2017	Withdrawn

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