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A NEW TAX SYSTEM (GOODS AND SERVICES TAX) ACT 1999 - SECT 29.40

Choosing to account on a cash basis

  (1)   You may choose to * account on a cash basis, with effect from the first day of the tax period that you choose, if:

  (a)   you are a * small business entity (other than because of subsection   328 - 110(4) of the * ITAA 1997) for the * income year in which you make your choice; or

  (ab)   you do not carry on a * business and your * GST turnover does not exceed the * cash accounting turnover threshold; or

  (b)   for income tax purposes, you account for your income using the receipts method; or

  (c)   each of the * enterprises that you * carry on is an enterprise of a kind that the Commissioner determines, in writing, to be a kind of enterprise in respect of which a choice to * account on a cash basis may be made under this section.

  (3)   The cash accounting turnover threshold is:

  (a)   $2 million; or

  (b)   such higher amount as the regulations specify.


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