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BOOSTING CASH FLOW FOR EMPLOYERS (CORONAVIRUS ECONOMIC RESPONSE PACKAGE) ACT 2020 - SECT 11

Time limits for cash flow boost

  (1)   Despite anything in this Act:

  (a)   the Commissioner must not pay an amount by way of a ca sh flow boost after 30   June 2026 ; and

  (b)   if:

  (i)   an entity is entitled to a cash flow boost for a period (disregarding this paragraph); and

  (ii)   the Commissioner would contravene paragraph   ( a) by paying that cash flow boost;

    the entity is not entitled to the cash flow boost for the period .

  (2)   Despite anything in this Act:

  (a)   the Commissioner must not pay an amount by way of a cash flow boost for a period if the entity fails to notify the Commissioner, in the approved form lodged with the Commissioner and by the deadline mentioned in subsection   ( 3) , of:

  (i)   for a period covered by subsection   5 (2)--its withholding period total for the period; or

  (ii)   for a period covered by subsection   6 (2 )--its entitlement to the cash flow boost for the period; and

  (b)   if:

  (i)   an entity is entitled to a cash flow boost for a period (disregarding this paragraph); and

  (ii)   the Commissioner would contravene paragraph   ( a) by paying that cash flow boost;

    the entity is not entitled to the cash flow boost for the period .

  (3)   For the purposes of paragraph   ( 2)(a), for a period covered by subsection   5 (2), the deadline is 2 years after the day on which the entity must notify the Commissioner under subsection   16 - 150(1) in Schedule   1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 of an amount that it must pay the Commissioner in respect of an amount that it withheld in the period .

  (4)   For the purposes of paragraph   ( 2)(a), for a period covered by subsection   6 (2), the deadline is :

  (a)   unless paragraph   ( b) applies-- 2 years after the time at which the entity must give the Commissioner its GST return for the tax period corresponding to the period in accordance with Division   31 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 ; or

  (b)   if the 2019 - 20 financial year is an annual tax period that applies to the entity:

  (i)   if the period is the quarter end ing on 30   June 2020--28   July 2022 ; or

  (ii)   if the period is the quarter ending on 3 0   September 2020--28   October 2022 .



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