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iambrokenarrow(Newbie)Newbie
20 Dec 2023

As a family partership, I cancelled the partnership ABN on Aug last year, but I still received the overdue lodgment about GST BAS Activity statement 2022 - 2023 on Aug this year, I believed that GST would be cancelled automatically when ABN was cancelled, I thought it may cause I cancelled ABN on Aug 2022 which is in 2022-2023 financial year, so I asked my tax agent to lodge these BAS Activity statement 2022 - 2023.


Unfortunately there's same problem today, I just received the overdue lodgment about GST BAS Activity statement from 1 Jul 2023 - 30 Sep 2023 recently, this time I double checked the ABN via ABN Lookup website, and found ABN was cancelled BUT GST is still ACTIVE, So I have to ask my tax agent to cancel the GST right now, I have a couple of questions:


  1. Can I choose 30 Jun 2023 as the cancellation date since my tax agent has already lodged all BAS activity statements for 2022-2023 financial year?
  2. Should I have to lodge these BAS activity from 1 July to now if I can choose 30 Jun as the cancellation date?
  3. Will the GST BAS keep appearing in my activity statements going forward?
  4. Should I have to lodge partnership income tax return for 2023-2024 after GST cancelled?

Thanks!

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AlliATO(Community Support)Community Support
ATO Certified Response21 Dec 2023

Hi @iambrokenarrow


You’re right in thinking the GST should automatically cancel when the ABN is cancelled. GST should not be active with no active ABN.

 

If the GST is still showing as active yet the ABN is showing as cancelled this is something we need to investigate for you to ensure it is not a system error, we need to fix this for you.

 

You or your accountant should discuss this further with our business registration area before taking any further action yourselves as the GST cancellation date should be the same date as the ABN cancellation date, your tax agent may not be able to do this in their systems.   

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AlliATO(Community Support)Community Support
ATO Certified Response21 Dec 2023

Hi @iambrokenarrow


You’re right in thinking the GST should automatically cancel when the ABN is cancelled. GST should not be active with no active ABN.

 

If the GST is still showing as active yet the ABN is showing as cancelled this is something we need to investigate for you to ensure it is not a system error, we need to fix this for you.

 

You or your accountant should discuss this further with our business registration area before taking any further action yourselves as the GST cancellation date should be the same date as the ABN cancellation date, your tax agent may not be able to do this in their systems.   

iambrokenarrow(Newbie)Newbie
21 Dec 2023

Thanks for your reply! and it may cause that I chose 30th, Jun 2020 as the ABN cancellation date​ when I cancelled the ABN on Aug 2022, I thought my business is no longer running from 30th, Jun 2020 even I have already lodged all GST BAS 2020-2022 as nil, so GST may not cancel automatically since there are existing nil BAS in 2020-2022.


As a result, now it seems that I only can choose 30th, Jun 2023 or later as GST cancellation date since my tax agent has already lodged GST BAS as nil for 2022-2023 on Aug, so what happen if the GST cancellation date is not same as ABN cancellation date? Should I ask my tax agent to have a try firstly if it's ok.


Thanks again.

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