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A NEW TAX SYSTEM (GOODS AND SERVICES TAX) ACT 1999 - SECT 78.100

Settlements of claims for compensation under statutory compensation schemes

             (1)  Subsection 38-60(1) and this Division apply in relation to a payment or supply made in settlement of a claim for compensation under a * statutory compensation scheme in the same way that they apply to a payment or supply made in settlement of a claim under an * insurance policy.

Note:          Subsection 38-60(1) provides that certain supplies to insurers are GST-free.

             (2)  For the purposes of the application of subsection 38-60(1) and this Division in relation to such a payment or supply:

                     (a)  the claim for compensation under the scheme is treated as a claim under an * insurance policy; and

                     (b)  the entity operating the scheme is treated as the insurer; and

                     (c)  an entity is treated as the entity insured if:

                              (i)  the entity's payment of premiums, contributions or similar payments under the scheme, or payment of levy in connection with the scheme; or

                             (ii)  the entity's liability to pay premiums, contributions or similar payments under the scheme, or liability to pay levy in connection with the scheme;

                            enabled the claim for compensation to arise; and

                    (ca)  those payments that that entity makes or is liable to make are treated as a premium it has paid; and

                     (d)  the supply of membership of, or participation in, the scheme is treated as the supply of an * insurance policy.

             (3)  However, if the entity treated as the entity insured:

                     (a)  is liable to make payments referred to in paragraph (2)(c); and

                     (b)  has not made all those payments;

for the purposes of sections 78-10 and 78-15, the entity's entitlement to an input tax credit for the premium paid is taken to be what its entitlement would have been if it had made all those payments.



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