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The tax ruling is clear - the hotel must provide it if the OTA does not. Whether or not the OTA should is a different question, but only if the OTA has an ABN and is registered for GST (assuming the hotel is registered as well, but the requirement for an ABN stands). Where it is an offshore...

It would be really interesting to know what justification Expedia gave to Qantas to ask them to stop issuing tax invoices. The real irony in all of this is that Qantas would have been issuing the correct tax invoice - showing the amount of GST that should be being paid by the hotel. I have a...

What they receive and their GST liability are not necessarily the same, as in this case. It is the difference between cash and accrual accounting. What they are receiving is the net of a more than one theoretical transaction - and the components need to be teased out. The Tax Invoice needs to...

They are not seeing the whole picture then are they?

For a bit of light relief, the following is part of the booking,.com Supplier Code of Conduct

Well it certainly isn't Booking.com If you go to the booking.com How We Work buried in the very small links at the bottom you will find So booking.com is relying on being an Agent. It now gets really murky. Note that they work with "Service Providers" as well as hotels. If you search for...

Reading the attachment, "web beds" is causing GST to be avoided. If they are acting as an agent, then they don't have to be registered for GST - but they must disclose to the principal the full amount collected so that a correct invoice can be issued and the correct GST charged. If they are...

This is where the ATO would be interested as GST is being underpaid. The hotel needs to issue the invoice for the full amount you paid if booking.com is acting as an agent and not issuing a tax invoice. There are many Expedia entities. There is indeed an Expedia Inc ABN 25 138 063 573...

The only thing in all of this that the ATO would actually be interested in is the hotels issuing tax invoices for just what they were paid by Expedia, and stating that GST was only 1/11th of that amount, rather than 1/11th of the total including commission. If Expedia are actually acting...

I don't think it is a software or knowledge issue - it is more that Expedia and the like are deliberately muddying the waters. If the seller is indeed acting as an agent, then the hotel most certainly should know the amount the customer has been charged. The fact that the agent settles net...

There is a difference between the settlement of net funds, and the accounting involved. What the hotel received from Expedia is the net - but not what they should be invoicing the customer. In the case of the customer, they should receive the invoice from the hotel for the full amount they...

You need to look at the legislation, not that ATO web site,. The bit about connected to Australia that talks about selling to Australian consumers is to do with selling things from offshore to Australians, and the Gerry Harvey whinge amendments or by direct electronic distribution platforms...

A hotel required to issue a Tax invoice is by definition a Resident entity. An offshore hotel may be a non-resident entity, but is not making taxable supplies (as far as GST is concerned), so that point 26 does not apply to these scenarios. That point applies to offshore companies making...

Correct, this is the obligation. No, Qantas does not need to do this - it is conditional - the principal's obligations are complied with IF Qantas as the agent issues the tax invoice, if not, they have to do so. My reading of that ruling is that there is in actual fact no actual lack of...

Depends on whether you agree with that valuation, of points, and how many SC short you are. For 875 even at that value, $2,61 per SC would be a pretty good status run - not to mention the time taken to do it.

Well data point on previous page was 875 short of requalification. It wouldn't be offered, but I got the impression that if you asked, and had the points, the amount of the shortfall didn't matter. Don't know one way or the other if the 4 ~ are important or not (they were achieved).

It is standard - and no difference if you are 100 or 1,000 SCs short.

Looks like it could be a typical QF dig at those using QR. The table is the same for SYD/MEL/BNE, but the breakdown if the transit point is SIN gives the same result for either SYD to Western Europe or the sum of SYD-SIN and SIN-Western Europe. This route does have a single flight number on a...

Can't help re the ferry terminal, but I am afraid you are out of luck as far as Cathay lounges at HKG. All the lounges are in the Departures Airside, and you can't get to it after arrival. The old Cathay arrivals lounge was shut years ago - that used to be the option.

That form is dumb - there is no cross reference between the From and To so you can pick any combination of cities, including ones where there are no flights (which is probably a good thing, as at least it gets you started on the missing points merry go round). There is another strange anomaly...