Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00126:section:7:p37
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00126
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7 (pt 37/63)
Character Range: 333434–336125

(b) if the branch is being registered only because it is intended that an *enterprise be *carried on through the branch—the date of effect must not be a day before the day specified, in the application, as the day from which it is intended to carry on the enterprise through the branch.
Note: Deciding the date of effect of registration as a GST branch is a reviewable GST decision (see Subdivision 110‑F in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953).

54‑15  GST branch registration number
  If the Commissioner *registers a *GST branch, the Commissioner must notify the registered entity of the branch's *GST branch registration number.

Subdivision 54‑B—Consequences of registration of GST branches

54‑40  Additional net amounts relating to GST branches
 (1) If an entity (the parent entity) has a *GST branch, Division 17 applies to the parent entity as if it had an additional *net amount, relating to the branch, for each tax period.
 (2) The additional *net amount relating to the branch is worked out as if the branch were a separate entity and as if:
 (a) all the supplies, acquisitions and importations made through the branch were made by that separate entity; and
 (b) all the *adjustments that the parent entity has arising from such supplies, acquisitions and importations were adjustments that the branch has; and
 (c) all transfers of anything by the branch to the parent entity (including any other branch of the parent entity), that would have been supplies made by the branch if it were an entity, were supplies made by the separate entity; and
 (d) all transfers of anything by the parent entity (including any other branch of the parent entity) to the branch, that would have been acquisitions made by the branch if it were an entity, were acquisitions made by the separate entity; and
 (e) all adjustments that the branch would have had, if it were an entity, relating to the supplies and acquisitions it would have made as mentioned in paragraphs (c) and (d), were adjustments that the branch had.
 (3) This section has effect despite sections 17‑5 and 17‑10 (which are about net amounts and adjustments).

54‑45  Net amounts of parent entities
 (1) If an entity (the parent entity) has a *GST branch, the parent entity's *net amount is worked out as if:
 (a) all the supplies, acquisitions and importations made through any GST branch of the parent entity were not supplies for which the parent entity is liable for GST, or acquisitions or importations for which the parent entity is entitled to input tax credits; and
 (b) the parent entity does not have any *adjustments arising from such supplies, acquisitions and importations; and
 (c) all transfers of