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This determination describes the information that must be included in a third party adjustment note and repeals the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Third Party Adjustment Note Information Requirements Determination (No. 1) 2010.
Administered by: Treasury
Registered 24 Sep 2020
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR06-Oct-2020
Tabled Senate06-Oct-2020

Legislative Instrument

 

A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Third Party Adjustment Note Information Requirements Determination 2020

 

I, Louise Clarke, Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, make this determination under subsection 134‑20(1)(d) of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.

 

Louise Clarke

Deputy Commissioner of Taxation

Policy, Analysis and Legislation

Law Design and Practice

Date of Making: 11 September 2020

 

 

1.            Name of instrument

This determination is the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Third Party Adjustment Note Information Requirements Determination 2020.

 

2.            Commencement

This instrument commences on 1 October 2020.

 

3.            Application

This determination applies to third party adjustment notes issued under subsection 134‑20(1) of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (GST Act).

 

4.            Determination

This determination applies to the entity that makes the payment.

 

5.            Information requirements for third party adjustment notes

For the purposes of paragraph 134‑20(1)(d) of the GST Act, a third party adjustment note must contain enough information to enable the following to be clearly ascertained:

(a)          the payer's identity, as specified in a form other than the payer's ABN (note that under paragraph 134‑20(1)(c) of the GST Act, the payer must also set out its ABN)

(b)          the payee's identity or the payee's ABN

(c)          a description of the thing that the payee acquires (including the quantity) and to which the payment relates

(d)          the amount of the payment (being a payment of money, an offset of debt, or a credit to an account) that represents a third party payment under Division 134 of the GST Act

(e)          the amount of the payer's decreasing adjustment under subsection 134‑5(2) of the GST Act

(f)           the date the note is issued.

 

6.            Definitions

(1)       Third party adjustment note means an adjustment note issued by a payer in the circumstances referred to in subsection 134‑20(1) of the GST Act.

(2)       Other expressions in this determination have the same meaning as in the GST Act.

 

7.            Repeals

This instrument repeals A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Third Party Adjustment Note Information Requirements Determination (No. 1) 2010 (F2010L01588) registered on 16 June 2010.