Goods and Services Tax: (Particular Attribution Rules for Supplies and Acquisitions made through Agents) Determination 2017 (Cth)

Legislative Instrument

Goods and Services Tax: (Particular Attribution Rules for Supplies and Acquisitions made through Agents) Determination 2017

I, Timothy Dyce, Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, make this determination under subsection 29-25(1) of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (GST Act);

Signed by Timothy Dyce

Deputy Commissioner of Taxation

Dated: 28/03/2017

1. Name of determination

This determination is the Goods and Services Tax: (Particular Attribution Rules for Supplies and Acquisitions made through Agents) Determination 2017.

2. Commencement

This determination commences on the day after its registration on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3. Repeal of previous determination

This determination repeals and replaces determination A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) (Particular Attribution Rules for Supplies and Acquisitions made through Agents) Determination (No. 1) 2000 - F2006B11596 (previous determination), registered on 17 November 2006.

4. Application

This determination applies to entities that make taxable supplies or creditable acquisitions through an agent and are reliant upon that agent for information to enable them to attribute their GST payable or input tax credit entitlement. The determination also applies to adjustments to those taxable supplies and creditable acquisitions.

The determination is substantially the same as the previous determination that it replaces. An entity that satisfied the requirements of the previous determination and that makes taxable supplies or creditable acquisitions through an agent and is reliant upon that agent for information to enable them to attribute their GST payable or input tax credit entitlement will satisfy the requirements of the determination.

5. Particular attribution rules for GST payable on taxable supplies you make through an agent before you know the supplies have occurred