So the dome gets cleaned?

Judging by the rats that call it home i don't think it gets cleaned all that often.

So players are paying GST?

Where is the tax invoice then?

Any tax gurus on the forum?

If you had your own business could you sponsor a player, say yourself, and then claim the costs of playing as a form of advertising?

GST is payable on ALL goods and services with only a few excptions. BASA is clearly offering a service to basketball players, which will incur GST.

Unless you are a company and wish to claim a GST input credit, you don't really need an itemised invoice. You could probably get one if you ask for it.

The GST was designed by the libs to be virtually invisible (to deceive people about the amount of tax you actually pay), but you pay it on just about everything and often would not know.

The legislation does have some requirements for invoices, but as I understand it, this will be satisfied if you quote a single price inclusive of GST.

I suspect that by law you would have to be able to ask for a receipt. As I understand it, that receipt would need to specify "Tax Invoice" and state the ABN of the seller. Pretty sure that these two elements are compulsory (have a look at any receipt - petrol, supermarket, restaurant, etc).

Then they can either itemise the GST or specify a final figure and indicate that it contained GST, AFAIK.

It is free to get an ABN and you can claim advertising, so I don't see why you couldn't have your team members each register for an ABN, pair up and then sponsor each other.

Of course, then you have to deal with any reporting obligations which might make the saving negligible. If you sponsored yourself, you'd have to report that income and pay tax on it anyway.

i sponsor my own indoor cricket team and clam it on tax and it works fine because i have my own ABN

i know it works for uniforms equip cleaning team registration etc.. but never tryed to claim the actual cost of playing the game,

gonna try that now thanks for the heads up kent

"Hello, Mr Brockman? This is the ATO. We hear that you've been advising people on tax-minimisation schemes..."

I can foresee me building you a website: "How I Saved $0.90 per Week Sponsoring Myself in Social Basketball."

And the follow-up book: "Sponsor Yourself to Wealth".

I'm pretty sure Oscar's already looking for it in Angus & Robertson.

Depends if GST is charged on sports participation. It's not charged on fresh fruit, vegetables and some other non-luxury goods, so maybe sports participation is exempt to encourage it?

They could simply be passing on the cost of GST incurred on things like cleaning and other bills in the ticket price.

In that case, in might be that the rise is a partial delayed reaction to the GST but not necessarily reflected on a receipt. Realistically, asking for an itemised receipt isn't going to be of much use anyway.

I think it's a bit rich trying to use GST as justification for a price rise 5 YEARS after its introduction. Clutching at straws anyone?

There are fines in place for companies that blame price rises on the GST. I have worked in retail and we were told very strictly never to say a price rise was to do with the GST (after the GST came in initially), because there are milllion-dollar penalties that come with that if you are caught by the ATO.