A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 Classes of Recipient Created Tax Invoice Determination (No. 21) 2000

A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 Classes of Recipient Created Tax Invoice Determination (No. 21) 2000

as amended

made under subsection 29-70(3) of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 and subsection 4(1) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

This compilation was prepared on 18 May 2009
taking into account amendments up to Recipient Created Tax Invoice – Embedded Agreement Amending Legislative Instrument 2009

Prepared by the Goods and Services Tax Centre of Expertise,
Australian Taxation Office

Citation (see Note 1)

1. This determination may be cited as the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 Classes of Recipient Created Tax Invoice Determination (No. 21) 2000.

Commencement (see Note 1)

2.                 (a) This determination commences on the date the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 commences.

(b) This determination does not revoke or vary any previous determination made by the Commissioner or a delegate of the Commissioner.

Application of determination

3.                  This determination applies to an entity not determined previously as being able to issue a tax invoice belonging to a class of tax invoices that may be issued by a recipient.

Classes of Tax Invoices that may be issued by the recipient of a taxable supply

4.                  A tax invoice that belongs to a class of tax invoices for a taxable supply of information by a content provider may be issued by a telephone information service provider that is the recipient of that taxable supply, where the telephone information service provider:

(i)                 establishes the value of the supply of information after the supply is made; and

(ii) satisfies the requirements set out in Clause 5.

Requirements that must be satisfied by a recipient of a taxable supply

5. A recipient must satisfy the following requirements:

(a) the supplier and the recipient must be registered for GST when the invoice is issued;

(b) the recipient must set out in the tax invoice the ABN of the supplier;

(c) the recipient must issue the original or a copy of the tax invoice to the supplier within 28 days of making, or determining, the value of a taxable supply and must retain the original or the copy;

(d) the recipient must issue the original or a copy of an adjustment note to the supplier within 28 days of the adjustment and must retain the original or the copy;

(e) the recipient must reasonably comply with its obligations under the taxation laws;

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(f) the recipient must have either:

• a written agreement with the supplier specifying the supplies to which it relates, that is current and effective when the RCTI is issued, agreeing that:

(i)                 the recipient can issue tax invoices in respect of the supplies;

(ii)                the supplier will not issue tax invoices in respect of the supplies;

(iii)              the supplier acknowledges that it is registered for GST when it enters into the agreement and that it will notify the recipient if it ceases to be registered;  and

(iv)             the recipient acknowledges that it is registered when it enters into the agreement and that it will notify the supplier if it ceases to be registered for GST;  or

• an agreement with the supplier embedded in an RCTI it issues that contains the following statement:

The recipient and the supplier declare that this agreement applies to supplies to which this tax invoice relates. The recipient can issue tax invoices in respect of these supplies. The supplier will not issue tax invoices in respect of these supplies. The supplier acknowledges that it is registered for GST and that it will notify the recipient if it ceases to be registered. The recipient acknowledges that it is registered for GST and that it will notify the supplier if it ceases to be registered for GST. Acceptance of this RCTI constitutes acceptance of the terms of this written agreement.

Both parties to this supply agree that they are parties to an RCTI agreement. The supplier agrees to notify the recipient if the supplier does not wish to accept the proposed agreement within 21 days of receiving this document;

(g) the recipient must not issue a document that would otherwise be a recipient created tax invoice, on or after the date when the recipient or the supplier has failed to comply with any of the requirements of this determination.

Definitions

6. The following expressions are defined for the purposes of this determination:

information means the data, material or information provided in a telephone information service;

content provider means the entity who supplies information that will be provided through a telephone information service.  Content providers include but are not restricted to racing organisations, government institutions, television stations, newspapers, counsellors, advisors and psychics;

telephone information service means the supply of information, which may be live or recorded, during a telephone call, or the supply of information by facsimile transmission in response to a telephone call or facsimile requesting such information;

telephone information service provider means an entity who supplies a telephone information service where:

(a) a customer calls the telephone information service provider's number to receive a telephone information service;

(b) the supply of information from the content provider to the telephone information service provider is a taxable supply; and

(c) carriage of the information to the customer is via a telecommunication supply.

7. Other expressions in this determination have the same meaning as in the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.

Notes to the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 Classes of Recipient Created Tax Invoice Determination (No. 21) 2000

Note 1

The A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 Classes of Recipient Created Tax Invoice Determination (No. 21) 2000 (in force under subsection 29-70(3) of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999) as shown in this compilation is amended as indicated in the Tables below.

Table of Instruments

Table of Amendments