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

Chapter 4 - The special rules  

Part 4-1 - Special rules mainly about particular ways entities are organised  

Note:

The special rules in this Part mainly modify the operation of Part 2-2 so far as that Part deals with liability for GST and entitlement to input tax credits, but the special rules also affect other aspects of Part 2-2 and the other Parts of Chapter 2 .

Division 58 - Representatives of incapacitated entities  

58-60   Representative to notify Commissioner of certain liabilities etc.  

(1)    
A *representative of an *incapacitated entity must notify the Commissioner, in the *approved form, of an amount of GST for which the entity is liable, or an *increasing adjustment that the entity has, if:


(a) the representative becomes aware, or could reasonably be expected to have become aware, of the amount of GST, or the adjustment; and


(b) the amount of GST, or the adjustment, has not been taken into account in any *GST return that has been given to the Commissioner; and


(c) the Commissioner has not been previously notified of the amount of GST, or the adjustment, under this section.

Note:

Section 286-75 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 provides an administrative penalty for breach of this subsection.


(2)    
The notification must be given to the Commissioner before the day on which the *representative declares a dividend to unsecured creditors of the *incapacitated entity .

(3)    
This section does not apply if the *representative is a representative of a kind that does not have the capacity to declare dividends to unsecured creditors of the *incapacitated entity .

(4)    
This section does not apply in circumstances determined by the Commissioner under subsection (5).

(5)    
The Commissioner may, by legislative instrument, determine circumstances in which this section does not apply.




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