› Flat Chat Strata Forum › From the Front Page › GST and contract commission › Current Page
23/11/2021 at 10:30 am
#60213
I don’t think we can give you legal advice, however look at it this way, and this is not legal advice.
If your supervisor charged you GST on an amount that included GST, they would be charging you GST on a tax. A tax is not a service or good.
Anyone who charges GST is obliged to remit that amount to the ATO, because it is a tax. In the scenario you describe the ATO would then refund the relevant amount to the supervisor. The supervisor has charged you that amount as a tax, therefore on one analysis it is fraudulent, unless they refund that amount to you.
I suggest the best option for you is to call the ATO.