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Australian GST and Your ABN
Gallery OwnersUpdated Sep 14, 2026
Australian organizations get GST handled throughout: quoted on submission fees, itemized on receipts, and totalled in a tax period report. This article covers what you record, where you record it, and what your artists and buyers see.
This is not tax advice. Your registration, your gift eligibility, and your lodgements remain yours to determine.
Set your country first
None of this appears until your organization's country is Australia. Set it in Settings > Organization, in the Localization section, along with your timezone, base currency and paper size. See Localization and Currency Settings.
Record your tax facts
Go to Finance > Financial Reports > Tax Documents. The Australian tax profile card is where your identity as a supplier lives. You need to be an owner or an admin of the organization to edit it.
The fields are:
Legal name, the entity name that appears on receipts and in your campaign footers
Australian Business Number (ABN), validated on save against the standard ABN check
GST registration status, one of Not confirmed, Not registered, Registered, or Registration cancelled
Customer price treatment, either GST-inclusive or GST-exclusive
GST effective from and GST effective to, the dates your registration applies between
Donation treatment, one of Not confirmed, Not eligible for gift treatment, or Eligible gift
The profile is versioned. Each save appends a new version rather than overwriting the last, so the facts that applied to a transaction last quarter are still readable.
If you choose Registered, an optional declaration appears. It states that your organization is registered for GST and acquires Crafted Call services for an enterprise it carries on, and it covers every supply Crafted Call makes to you. It stays on file until you withdraw it. Without it, Crafted Call treats its supplies to you as supplies to a consumer. Changing your legal name or ABN retires it, because the declaration on file no longer describes you.
Checkout is refused until the profile is complete
Australian money flows do not start on a half-filled profile. Until your tax profile is complete and your GST registration status is confirmed, a buyer attempting to check out is turned away with this message:
Cart checkout is unavailable until this jurisdiction's tax policy is approved.
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The tax profile card names the missing fact. "Complete your Australian tax profile" means save your legal name, ABN and GST registration status. "Confirm your GST registration status" means choose whether you are registered, then save a new version. Once the facts line up, the card reads Ready.
How GST is applied
For a registered supplier, standard supplies carry GST at 10 percent. You choose whether prices shown to customers are GST-inclusive or GST-exclusive; a registered standard supply must be one or the other, and cannot be sold with no tax treatment at all.
Two treatments switch GST off, and both need facts on file first:
Gift. Available only when your donation treatment is Eligible gift and you have accepted the gift attestation. Without a stored attestation the transaction is refused rather than quietly zero-rated.
Zero-rated. Applied where the supply qualifies.
If your GST registration status is unknown, or your registration is not in force on the transaction date, the transaction stops rather than guessing.
What your artists and buyers see
A paid submission from an Australian buyer to an Australian organization in Australian dollars produces a payment receipt showing:
amounts formatted as A$, using Australian conventions
a GST line, labelled GST, with the tax amount shown separately
whether the tax was included in the price or added to it
your legal name
your ABN, printed in the standard 2 3 3 3 grouping
A refund produces a matching refund receipt showing the amount refunded and the GST reversed.
Reporting periods
The GST reporting card on the same page records how your activity statements are prepared:
Reporting basis: Cash or Accruals, with the eligibility route you rely on
Reporting frequency: Monthly, Quarterly or Annual
Period anchor month: quarters run July to September, October to December, January to March, and April to June, so July is the default anchor. Monthly periods are calendar months and take no anchor.
Reporting timezone: chosen explicitly from the Australian timezones, so a period boundary never moves because someone edited the organization's timezone
The Tax period report card then totals a period from your retained records: sales excluding tax, discounts, shipping, taxable amount, tax included in the price, tax added to the price, tax, and total.
Your registration is re-checked daily
Once a day, Crafted Call re-verifies Australian GST registrations against the Australian Business Register lookup service. If your registration changes or lapses, the check picks it up rather than waiting for you to notice.
New Zealand is different
New Zealand organizations do not get GST paperwork yet. There are no New Zealand tax documents, no GST on New Zealand receipts, and no New Zealand GST period report. New Zealand does get New Zealand dollar pricing, local conventions, and a tax profile that records your legal name, IRD number, New Zealand Business Number, GST registration status and donation treatment. See Where Crafted Call Works.
