Business Activity Statement

Note:

This topic is for NetSuite accounts that use the Country Tax Report page to generate the Australia Business Activity Statement. If you are using the Tax Reports (International) page, see Business Activity Statement Report.

With Tax Reporting Framework, you can generate the Australia Business Activity Statement (BAS) report. To generate a report, see Generating Localized Country Tax Reports.

The SuiteTax Country Tax Reports APAC SuiteApp provides the tax report template and tax report localization for Australia. You must install this SuiteApp to have Australia tax reports available on the Country Tax Report page. For more information about the required SuiteApps for each country tax reports, see Tax Reporting Framework Localization Requirements.

The following tables describe the reported values on the BAS report. It also shows the Search Type, Transaction Types, Tax Codes, Tax Transaction Types, Tax Item Types, and Tax Reporting Category filters that Tax Reporting Framework uses to get the values for each of the boxes on the report. These filters are automatically set up but can be modified. If you want to customize the report and configure the filters, see Customizing Localized Tax Returns.

Goods and services tax (GST)

Box

Report Label

Amount

Search Type

Transaction Types

Tax Codes

Tax Transaction Types

Tax Item Types

Tax Reporting Category

G1

Total sales

Does the amount shown at G1 include GST?

Net amount

Sales

  • Cash Refund

  • Cash Sale

  • Credit Memo

  • Invoice

AU_SR

Domestic Sales

  • Goods

  • Services

Sales

  • Cash Refund

  • Cash Sale

  • Credit Memo

  • Invoice

AU_ZR

  • Domestic Sales

  • Exports

  • Goods

  • Services

Sales

  • Cash Refund

  • Cash Sale

  • Credit Memo

  • Invoice

AU_NL

Domestic Sales

  • Goods

  • Services

Billable Expenses

  • Invoice

  • Cash Sale

AU_SR

Domestic Sales

Billable Expenses

  • Invoice

  • Cash Sale

AU_ZR

  • Domestic Sales

  • Exports

Billable Expenses

  • Invoice

  • Cash Sale

AU_NL

Domestic Sales

G2

Export sales

Net amount

Sales

  • Cash Refund

  • Cash Sale

  • Credit Memo

  • Invoice

AU_ZR

Exports

  • Goods

  • Services

Billable Expenses

  • Invoice

  • Cash Sale

AU_ZR

Exports

G3

Other GST-free sales

Net amount

Sales

  • Cash Refund

  • Cash Sale

  • Credit Memo

  • Invoice

AU_ZR

Domestic Sales

  • Goods

  • Services

Billable Expenses

  • Invoice

  • Cash Sale

AU_ZR

Domestic Sales

G10

Capital purchases

Net amount

Purchases

  • Bill

  • Bill Credit

AU_SR

  • Domestic Purchases

  • Imports

Goods

AU - Capital Goods

Expenses

  • Bill

  • Bill Credit

  • Expense Report

AU_SR

  • Domestic Purchases

  • Imports

G11

Non-capital purchases

Net amount

Purchases

  • Bill

  • Bill Credit

AU_SR

  • Domestic Purchases

  • Imports

  • Goods

  • Services

- None -

Expenses

  • Bill

  • Bill Credit

  • Expense Report

AU_SR

  • Domestic Purchases

  • Imports

PAYG tax withheld

Box

Report Label

Details

W1

Total salary, wages, and other payments

Data of the selected account.

W2

Amount withheld from Payments shown at W1

Data of the selected account.

W3

Amount withheld where no ABN is quoted

Data of the selected account.

W4

Other amounts withheld (excluding any amounts shown at W2 or W4)

Data of the selected account.

W5

Total amounts withheld (W2 + W4 + W3)

Autogenerated

The values reported on boxes W1-W4 are from the data of the selected accounts upon Australia tax return setup. To select an account, see Customizing Localized Tax Returns.

Summary

Amounts you owe the ATO

Box

Report Label

Amount

Search Type

Transaction Types

Tax Codes

Tax Transaction Types

Tax Item Types

1A

GST on sales

Tax amount

Sales

  • Cash Refund

  • Cash Sale

  • Credit Memo

  • Invoice

AU_SR

Domestic Sales

  • Goods

  • Services

Billable Expenses

  • Invoice

  • Cash Sale

AU_SR

Domestic Sales

1C

Wine equalisation tax

(Custom)

1E

Luxury car tax

(Custom)

4

PAYG tax withheld

(Value reported on box W5)

5A

PAYG income tax installment

(Data of the selected account)

6A

FBT installment

(Data of the selected account)

8A

1A + 1C + 1E + 4 + 5A + 6A + 7

(Autogenerated)

The values reported on boxes 5A and 6A are from the data of the selected accounts upon Australia tax return setup. To select an account and customize boxes 1C and 1E, see Customizing Localized Tax Returns.

Amounts the ATO owes you

Box

Report Label

Amount

Search Type

Transaction Types

Tax Codes

Tax Transaction Types

Tax Item Types

1B

GST on purchases

Tax amount

Purchases

  • Bill

  • Bill Credit

AU_SR

Domestic Purchases

  • Goods

  • Services

Purchases

  • Bill

  • Bill Credit

AU_SR

Imports

  • Goods

  • Services

Expenses

  • Bill

  • Bill Credit

  • Expense Report

AU_SR

Domestic Purchases

Expenses

  • Bill

  • Bill Credit

  • Expense Report

AU_SR

Imports

1D

Wine equalisation tax refundable

(Custom)

1F

Luxury car tax refundable

(Custom)

5B

Credit from PAYG income tax instalment variation

(Data of the selected account.)

6B

Credit from FBT instalment variation

(Data of the selected account.)

8B

1B + 1D + 1F + 5B + 6B

(Autogenerated)

The values reported on boxes 5B and 6B are from the data of the selected accounts upon Australia tax return setup. To select an account and customize boxes 1D and 1F, see Customizing Localized Tax Returns.

Payment or refund?

Box

Report Label

Details

9

Your payment or refund amount

Autogenerated

To view the Australia GST report in detail, see Viewing a Generated Country Tax Report.

For information about the reporting features of Country Tax Reports, see Tax Reporting Framework.

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