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SXL(Newbie)Newbie
22 Aug 2025

We are a non-profit seniors club. We celebrate cultural festivals via a celebration luncheon 4 times a year with around 350 members attending. We purchase lunches from nearby restaurants and we collect money from members to pay for the lunch - to avoid 350 people paying for it separately.

This lunch money we collect is directly paid to the restaurant and no profit has been made, we are simply the middle person trying to make the logistics of payment easier for everyone. We are not in the business of providing lunch and we do not cook the lunch.

My questions is: Does this lunch money counted as part of GST turnover or not?

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knaresbro(Devotee)Devotee
23 Aug 2025

If you're moving these amounts through the club it does sound like GST Turnover and it doesn't sound like you can exclude it. See "Working out your GST turnover" in the following ATO page.

Registering for GST | Australian Taxation Office


Given the amounts involved are, presumably, several thousand dollars each quarter, you may not wish to consider the alternatives of, say, using petty cash or having one or more members treat the transactions as private.

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