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Taxation Administration Act 1953 - Pay as you go withholding - Variation to remove the requirement to withhold from payments for certain US resident entertainers and sport persons

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Taxation Administration Act 1953
Pay as you go withholding
Variation to remove the requirement to withhold from payments for certain US resident entertainers and sport persons – Legislative Instrument
I, Steve Vesperman, Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, vary the amount required to be withheld as described below from withholding payments that are:
·         Covered by Paragraph 1 of  Article 17, of the Australia and United States international tax agreement  and
·         Within the class of cases described below.
 
I make this variation of the amount required to be withheld using the power contained in section 15-15 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 to meet the special circumstances of that class of cases.
For payments covered by this variation I use the power contained in section 16-180 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 to exempt the payer from providing a payment summary to the relevant payee.
Commencement
This instrument commences on the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
Class of Cases:
The variation applies:
·         to entertainers and sport persons who are residents of the United States of America
to payments for entertainment and sports activities carried on in Australia
where the combined payments to the entertainer / sports person from such activities do not exceed US $10,000 or its equivalent in Australian dollars, for the year of income concerned.
Amount required to be withheld
The amount to be withheld from payments covered by this instrument is nil.
Variation to the requirement to issue a payment summary
                Where no withholding has occurred from the payments made to a payee in a financial year as a result of this variation, the payer will not be required to issue a payment summary to the payee in respect of these withholding payments.
              
Signed on 31st of March 2014
 
 
Steve Vesperman
Deputy Commissioner of Taxation