Tax codes (Australia)

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Australia only. For New Zealand, see GST codes (New Zealand)

Tax codes are used to track tax paid to and by your business. Each code represents a particular type of tax.

MYOB has an extensive list of codes that can be used in a variety of situations—for example, when doing business with overseas customers, when tracking capital acquisitions, and so on.

You can't create tax codes or delete existing ones.

If you need help with the tax codes applicable to your business, seek advice from your accounting advisor or the ATO.

Summary of tax codes

Here are the default tax codes in a new MYOB business.

Tax Code	Name	Description	Default Tax Type
GST	Goods & Services Tax	General tax of 10% on most goods, services, and other items sold or consumed in Australia	Goods & Services Tax
FRE	GST-Free	Sales that are GST-free sales other than export sales, such as fresh food purchases, medical services and products, and educational courses	Goods & Services Tax
EXP	Export Sales	Used when exporting goods, which are usually GST-Free	Goods & Services Tax
CAP	Capital Purchase	Amounts paid for capital assets, such as plant and equipment, motor vehicles, land and buildings	Goods & Services Tax
INP	Input Taxed Purchases	Used for the purchase of input taxed supplies, or supplies on which no GST is added to the final purchase price, such as residential rents or unit trusts	Input Taxed
ITS	Input Taxed Sales	Used for the sale of input taxed supplies, or supplies that don't include GST in the sale price, such as financial supplies, interest income and residential income	Goods & Services Tax
LCT	Luxury Car Tax	Used to handle special tax considerations which accompany the sale of luxury cars (learn more)	Luxury Car Tax
LCG	LCG - Consolidated LCT & GST	This tax code combines GST and LCT to calculate and track both taxes.	LCG
GNR	GST Not Registered	Used to record purchases from suppliers who have an ABN but are not registered to collect GST	Input Taxed
ABN	No ABN Withholding	Used for suppliers that have not quoted ABNs on their invoices, or for amounts that are withheld from investment income because no tax file number was quoted. If you've upgraded from MYOB Essentials, note that the rate for No ABN Withholding has been updated to the current rate.	No ABN/TFN
N-T	No-Tax	Used to record sales that carry no GST, such as depreciation and cash transfers.	Goods & Services Tax
WEG	GST on Wine Equalisation Tax	Used to record GST on WET	Goods & Services Tax
WET	Wine Equalisation Tax	Tax on wine consumed in Australia based on the value of the wine	Sales Tax
GW	Consolidated WEG and WET	Combines the Wine Equalisation GST (WEG) and Wine Equalisation Tax (WET) codes	Consolidated
VWH	Voluntary Withholdings	Used for contractor payments where a voluntary agreement is in place.	Voluntary Withholdings

Summary of tax types

All tax codes have a tax type, which can't be changed. The table below describes what each tax type is for.

Tax Type	Description
Consolidated	This tax type is used for taxes that are made up of two or more tax codes or sub-taxes.
Import Duty	Importers, who are bringing goods into Australia from other countries, should use this tax type. Tax codes with this tax type are used to record the import duty payable on a purchase order without changing the total amount of the purchase order. (The import duty is treated as a separate transaction since the duty is payable to the ATO, not to the company supplying the goods.)
Sales Tax	This tax type is associated with the Wine Equalisation Tax.
Goods & Services Tax	This tax type is associated with the Goods & Services Tax assigned to sales and purchases. This tax type also is used for GST-free goods and GST on Wine Equalisation Tax.
Input Taxed	This tax type should be used by organisations, such as suppliers of financial services, that must pay GST on the purchases they make but don't collect GST from their clients or customers. The Input Taxed tax type also should be used by businesses that haven't registered for GST.
Luxury Car Tax	This tax type is used by the Automotive industry to handle the luxury car tax. (learn more)
Voluntary withholdings	This tax type should be used for the PAYG voluntary withholdings scheme.
No ABN/TFN	This tax type should be used for suppliers that have not quoted ABNs on their invoices, or for amounts that are withheld from investment income because no tax file number was quoted. This type indicates that the tax code is a PAYG Withholding tax type and will always be rounded down to the nearest dollar. You should use a No ABN/TFN tax code of 47% for suppliers who do not quote an ABN on invoices for more than $75 tax exclusive, or where amounts are withheld from investment income because no tax file number was quoted. If both of these situations apply to your company, you will need to create two tax codes to handle them separately.

To edit a tax code

What you can edit in tax codes

Only users with the Accountant/Bookkeeper or Administrator user roles and permissions can edit tax codes. See Users.

You can edit all of the fields in a tax code except the Tax type:

If you change the Tax rate for a tax code, it won't change the rate for existing transactions which used that tax code.

You can also change or create a new Linked contact for tax authority.

Go to the Accounting menu and click Tax codes to open the Tax codes list.
Click Tax code of the tax code you want to edit.
Make your changes.

You can only enter a maximum of 3 letters in the Tax code field.
Click Save to save your changes.

To assign tax codes to accounts

You can assign a tax code to any detail account in your accounts list. The tax code you assign will appear as the default tax code when you post a transaction to this account.

For example, you have assigned the GST tax code to your electricity expense account. When you settle your electricity bill in the Spend Money window and allocate it to this account, the GST tax code will appear in this window by default.

You can allocate a tax code to an account. To open this window, go to the Accounting menu > Chart of accounts, and click account name of the required account.

To assign tax codes to items

When you set up an item, you must assign a GST code to use when selling it.

These item GST codes will appear by default when buying and selling your items unless you have specified that the customer or supplier GST code is to be used instead (see below).

You assign GST codes to items in the following tabs of the item: