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Overview

GST is a broad-based tax of 10% on most goods, services and other items sold or consumed in Australia.
Larger businesses (turnover more than $2 million) have to use accrual accounting for GST purposes, but smaller businesses have a choice.

You can either be Accrual or Cash Basis GST.
The system can be configured to be either. This configuration must be done before you go live.

Warning

Please note, ensure to close off each period.
DO NOT BACKDATE any transactions into a prior period or quarter.

If you choose to manually reconcile GST items and not use the GST Batch, then you will need to monitor back dated transactions into a past GST Batch that would have been accounted for.


Note

Before running your first GST Batch, if you wish to line up your GST Items and have them balance back to the corresponding General Ledger GST Accounts, you will need to provide Readysell with the starting positions for Bas Codes involved.
Readysell will insert these figures behind the scenes.
This process incurs a charge. 

Also when looking at GST Items or GST Batch, ensure you check the taxcodes that have been used are correct against the transaction types.

When balancing GST Items and GST Batch back to the General Ledger Postable accounts, if you have inserted any journal entries against a General Ledger GST Account, you will need to take the entry up as a reconciling entry.

Journals do not flow back to the GST Items table.

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  1. Log onto Readysell>Financials>Tax>GST Items
  2. Select one of the filters from the drop down selection in the top ribbon or design your own gst items window by dropping and dragging fields Searching, filtering and sorting lists
  3. If you are accrual basis gst filter your list view by selecting the field 'date' is less than the date range in question and field 'extracted' = false
  4. If you are cash basis gst filter your list view by selecting the field of 'Cash Basis Due Date' is Less than the first day of the next month into the next quarter
    Review the data and check the value of GST Received and GST Paid
  5. Export the result by dropping the 'Export' action button top ribbon and make your selection.
  6. The difference between GST Received and GST Paid depending on which one is higher is what you owe the government or the government owes you

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