A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax): Waiver of Tax Invoice Requirement (Acquisitions from or by a Partnership) Determination 2023
Reference: LI 2023/9
Document type: Legislative Instrument
Enabling act: A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999
Date of issue: 7 March 2023
Signatory: Ben Kelly Deputy Commissioner of Taxation
Registration number: F2023L00325
Registration date: 23 March 2023

I, Ben Kelly, Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, make the following determination.

1 Name: This instrument is the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax): Waiver of Tax Invoice Requirement (Acquisitions from or by a Partnership) Determination 2023. | 2 Commencement: (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms. Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument On the day after this instrument is registered. Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument. | 3 Authority: This instrument is made under subsection 29-10(3) of the Act. | 4 Definitions: Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following: (a) ABN; (b) creditable acquisition; (c) input tax credit; (d) partnership. (a) ABN; (b) creditable acquisition; (c) input tax credit; (d) partnership. In this determination: Act means the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999. partner means a person acting in their capacity as a partner of a partnership. | 5 Schedules: Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms. | 6 Waiver of the requirement to hold a tax invoice: (1) For the purposes of attributing an input tax credit for a creditable acquisition to a tax period, a recipient is not required to hold a tax invoice under subsection 29-10(3) of the Act if: (a) the recipient makes a creditable acquisition from a partner; (b) the acquisition is not covered by Division 111 of the Act; and (c) at the time the recipient gives a GST return to the Commissioner for the tax period to which the input tax credit (or any part of the input tax credit) on the acquisition would otherwise be attributable, they hold a document that meets the requirements in subsection 7(1). (a) the recipient makes a creditable acquisition from a partner; (b) the acquisition is not covered by Division 111 of the Act; and (c) at the time the recipient gives a GST return to the Commissioner for the tax period to which the input tax credit (or any part of the input tax credit) on the acquisition would otherwise be attributable, they hold a document that meets the requirements in subsection 7(1). (2) For the purposes of attributing an input tax credit for a creditable acquisition to a tax period, a partnership is not required to hold a tax invoice under subsection 29-10(3) of the Act if: (a) the partnership makes a creditable acquisition through a partner, where the total price of the thing or things acquired is at least $1,000 or such higher amount specified in regulations made for the purposes of section 29-70 of the Act; (b) the acquisition is not covered by Division 111 of the Act; and (c) at the time the partnership gives a GST return to the Commissioner for the tax period to which the input tax credit (or any part of the input tax credit) on the acquisition would otherwise be attributable, it holds a document that meets the requirements in subsection 7(2). (a) the partnership makes a creditable acquisition through a partner, where the total price of the thing or things acquired is at least $1,000 or such higher amount specified in regulations made for the purposes of section 29-70 of the Act; (b) the acquisition is not covered by Division 111 of the Act; and (c) at the time the partnership gives a GST return to the Commissioner for the tax period to which the input tax credit (or any part of the input tax credit) on the acquisition would otherwise be attributable, it holds a document that meets the requirements in subsection 7(2). | 7 Document information requirements: (1) The requirements referred to in paragraph 6(1)(c) are that the document: (a) meets the requirements in paragraphs 29-70(1)(a) and 29-70(1)(c) of the Act, other than subparagraph 29-70(1)(c)(i); and (b) contains enough information to enable the identity of the partner, and the ABN of the partnership, to be clearly ascertained from the document. (a) meets the requirements in paragraphs 29-70(1)(a) and 29-70(1)(c) of the Act, other than subparagraph 29-70(1)(c)(i); and (b) contains enough information to enable the identity of the partner, and the ABN of the partnership, to be clearly ascertained from the document. (2) The requirements referred to in paragraph 6(2)(c) are that the document: (a) meets the requirements in paragraphs 29-70(1)(a) and 29-70(1)(c) of the Act, other than subparagraph 29-70(1)(c)(ii); and (b) contains enough information to enable the identity of the partner, or the ABN of the partnership, to be clearly ascertained from the document. (a) meets the requirements in paragraphs 29-70(1)(a) and 29-70(1)(c) of the Act, other than subparagraph 29-70(1)(c)(ii); and (b) contains enough information to enable the identity of the partner, or the ABN of the partnership, to be clearly ascertained from the document. A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Waiver of Tax Invoice Requirement (Acquisitions from or Acquisitions by a Partnership) Legislative Instrument 2013 | 1 The whole of the instrument: Repeal the instrument.