The character b is used to indicate blanks. AN is alphanumeric – both upper and lower case alphabetic characters and numeric characters are acceptable and left justified and one byte per character. Characters not used must be blank filled. For example 10 STREET in a 20 character alphanumeric field would be reported as 10bFIRSTbSTREETbbbbb The character b is used to indicate blanks DT is a date in DDMMCCYY format. If the day or month components are less than 10, insert a leading zero. For example: 26 March 2017 would be reported as 26032017 9 November 2018 would be reported as 09112018 If the date is mandatory it must be a valid date, otherwise see date under the optional field type on the next page. N is numeric (0-9), one byte per digit. Numeric fields must be right justified and the character positions not used must be zero filled. For example, 123456789 in an 11 digit field would be reported as 00123456789. Field type – codes used are: M the value in a mandatory field that must be provided. For single character mandatory fields, a space is NOT a valid value. ALPHA: field must not start with a blank or be blank filled ALPHANUMERIC: field must not start with a blank or be blank filled NUMERIC: field must not start with a blank and may be zero filled DATE: field must not be zero filled. O the data must be reported if available. If the data is not available: ALPHA: if not present, field must be blank filled ALPHANUMERIC: if not present, field must be blank filled NUMERIC: if not present, field must be zero filled DATE: if not present, field must be zero filled. C a valid value that must be reported where specified conditions are met. S For use by the ATO. It must be blank filled. Field name – a brief description of the field.
The postcode field must always be set to 9999 The street address must be provided in the first and second address line fields The town, state or region and area code must be reported in the suburb, town or locality field The state field must always be set to OTH, and The name of the overseas country is to be provided in the country field. For example, the overseas address 275 Central Park West, Apartment 14F, New York, New York, USA 10024 would be reported as shown below. Character position Field length Field name Content 465-502 38 Investor address line 1 275 CENTRAL PARK WEST 503-540 38 Investor address line 2 APARTMENT 14F 541-567 27 Suburb, town or city NEW YORK NY 10024 568-570 3 State or territory OTH 571-574 4 Postcode 9999 575-594 20 Country USA If the investment body has captured more than one address for a non-resident investor and one of those is an Australian address, then the Australian address (including the postcode) must be reported rather than the overseas address. For individual investors, the components of the individual’s name – surname, first given name, and second given name must be reported in the separate fields as specified. Titles, prefixes and suffixes (for example, Ms, Mr, Dr, and OBE) MUST NOT be included when reporting names. Multi-word surnames must be separated by a single space. Where the individual has a legal single name only, the Investor first given name and Investor second given name fields must be blank filled. The legal single name must be provided in the Investor surname field. Non-individual investor, trading and account names are to be reported in full with one space between words and any initials that occur in the name. However, care must be taken with some non-individual names to differentiate between initials and actual words. For example, W.R. and J.B. Smith (a partnership) would be reported as WbRbANDbJbBbSMITH, but ABC Driving School Pty Ltd would be reported as ABCbDRIVINGbSCHOOLbPTYbLTD .The character b is used to indicate blanks. Where name fields are reported, they must not contain a blank at the beginning of the field, nor may they contain two spaces between words.
11.22 Investment reference number - will contain the account or other reference number/code that was supplied by the investment body in the original report. 11.23 Customer reference number - if a customer reference number was provided in the original report, that number/code will be provided in this field. If a customer reference number was not provided, this field will be blank filled. 11.24 BSB number - will contain the BSB that was supplied by the investment body in the original report. If a BSB number was not provided, this field will be blank filled. 11.25 Branch location - will contain the branch location that was supplied by the investment body in the original report. If a branch location was not provided, this field will be blank filled. 11.26 Investor entity type - identifies the type of entity holding the account. Where the investor has been matched to a record on the ATO Client Register, this field will be set to one of the following codes: C Corporation D Deceased individual G Government organisation I O Individual Other non-individual P Partnership S Superannuation fund T Trust Where the investor is deemed not to have quoted this field will be set to blank. 11.27 Original investor Tax file number - will contain the number provided by the investment body in the QTFN report. 11.28 Corrected investor Tax file number - will contain the amended TFN for the investor or zeros. Where this field and the Corrected investor Australian Business Number field are both zero filled, it means that neither a TFN nor ABN could be found for the investor and that the investor is deemed not to have quoted. Where the investor is deemed not to have quoted, the investment body is required to withhold from future payments of investment income subject to withholding arrangements, tax at the highest marginal rate plus the Medicare levy, until the investor either quotes a TFN or ABN in relation to the investment, or claims an exemption from quoting. 11.29 Original investor Australian Business Number - will contain the ABN provided by the investment body in the QTFN report. 11.30 Corrected investor Australian Business Number - will contain the amended ABN for the investor or zeros. Where this field and the Corrected investor Tax file number field are both