Reference: Variation 18
Document type: Variation of amount required to be withheld
Enabling act: Pay As You Go (PAYG) Withholding
Date of issue: 21 February 2002
Signatory: Murray Crowe Assistant Commissioner of Taxation


I, Murray Boyd Crowe, Assistant Commissioner of Taxation, vary the amount required to be withheld to an amount equal to twenty (20) percent of the payment, where the payment is: • covered by section 12-35 or subsection 12-60(2) of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 and of a kind covered by regulation 44(1)(c) of the Taxation Administration Regulations 1976 ; and • within the class of cases described below. | • covered by section 12-35 or subsection 12-60(2) of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 and of a kind covered by regulation 44(1)(c) of the Taxation Administration Regulations 1976 ; and • within the class of cases described below. | I make this variation of the amount required to be withheld under the power contained in section 15-15 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 to meet the special circumstances of that class of cases. | This variation applies to payments made from 1 April 2002 to 31 December 2003. | Payments made on or after 1 April 2002 under a contract to an individual engaged as a performing artist to perform in a promotional activity that is: (i) conducted in the presence of an audience; or (ii) intended to be communicated to an audience by print or electronic media; or (iii) for a film or tape; or (iv) for a television or radio broadcast; and where the individual has provided the payer with a Tax File Number Declaration Form quoting their Tax File Number. | (i) conducted in the presence of an audience; or (ii) intended to be communicated to an audience by print or electronic media; or (iii) for a film or tape; or (iv) for a television or radio broadcast; and where the individual has provided the payer with a Tax File Number Declaration Form quoting their Tax File Number. | Expressions referred to above under the heading "Class of cases" have the same meaning as in regulation 44 of the Taxation Administration Regulations 1976 .