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Thread: a question about GST
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26th May 2007, 07:52 PM #1
a question about GST
If I subcontract part of a job and they invoice me for their labour and materials, then I claim the GST, the subbies claims the GST on the materials too, so GST on the materials has been claimed twice. How do you work this situation out?
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Michael
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26th May 2007, 07:57 PM #2
Yeap, it has been claimed twice BUT... it has also been invoiced twice.
Supplier invoiced subbie & he claimed it & then invoiced you & you claimed it.Cliff.
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26th May 2007, 08:03 PM #3
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26th May 2007, 08:04 PM #4
And then I pay the contractor and pay GST, and sell the building and the owner pays GST too, so .... if you add up the whole food chain you'll get to 6 or seven or eight times.
Mostly of course, each time the item gets passed on it increases in value, so a $1.00 bolt with 10c worth of GST ends up with a being a $4.00 bolt with 40c worth of GST, it doesn't matter how many times it gets passed on, it's the 40c Mr Costello is waiting for!
Cheers,
P
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26th May 2007, 08:18 PM #5
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26th May 2007, 08:50 PM #6
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26th May 2007, 08:56 PM #7
In the end there is only one person that pays the GST is the consumer the one on the end of the whole chain.
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26th May 2007, 09:08 PM #8
Sadly true Baz. They've got no way of passing on any costs. So, things like tax cuts, whilst they sound like a windfall, and are often used by the Reserve Bank as an excuse to 'trot out the possibility of interest rate rises' are, in reality, a mechanism to maintain some fairness.
Sadly also, is the probability that the other side won't be any different.
C'est la vie.
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