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This article is for Australian Dealerships that adhere to the Notional Input Tax Credit (NITC) requirement

This is when the Dealership does not claim the relevant input tax credits on the BAS for unit purchases until the units are actually sold.  These withheld input tax credits are referred to as NITC

This may also includes trade-in units on deals where the customer is receiving the benefit of a tax credit for the trade-in but the Dealership is not claiming the tax credit (or the input tax credit on the trade in) until that trade-in unit is later sold 

Please note that Blackpurl does not advocate either way - adhere to NITC or not to adhere to NITC

This is a discussion that the Dealership needs to have with your accountant and make your decision 

Just know that Blackpurl can be setup to accommodate NITC if required

For further information, please refer to our article - Notional Input Tax Credits (NITC) in Blackpurl (Australia Only)

Setup

Please note that if your Dealership adheres to NITC then please let your Activation Specialist know at the point of Activation

Your Activation Specialist will set this up for your Dealership and once setup all the below mentioned transactions will occur automatically in Blackpurl and integration to your accounting package

General Ledger accounts involved in NITC entries

There are as many as 4 General Ledger accounts involved in accounting entries related to NITC which are:

• GST on purchases
• GST on sales
• GST NITC
• NITC expenses

Purchased inventory units

This is standard practice for any produce received, a Vendor Tax Invoice (Parts or Units) is processed in Blackpurl and then integrates to your accounting package (Xero or QuickBooks Online), where typically there is a GST on Purchases component to the Vendor Tax Invoice that is claimed

However for the Dealerships that adhere to NITC, they will not claim the GST on Purchases component until the unit is sold, the Vendor Tax Invoice is processed as follows:

Typical accounting entries for one of these vendor Tax Invoice

To withhold the GST as NITC we also generate the following journal entry separate from the vendor Tax Invoice

At a later date, when this unit gets sold, we need to record that the withheld GST can now be claimed

So we include the following entries in the COGS journal entry for the deal

Trade In Units 

Units traded in, on a Unit Deal where the customer is receiving the benefit of a tax credit for the trade-in also has a requirement to withhold the tax credit given to the customer until that traded in unit is later sold

Trade-in unit from a deal

Let’s look at a typical deal which has a trade-in on it

A customer buys a $11,000 unit and trades in a unit that has a value of $3,300. Their net sale is $7,700 (this is tax included pricing). Here is what the accounting entries look like for this deal

Because of NITC, the tax credit the customer benefited from in their deal, $300 in this example, needs to be withheld until that traded in unit is sold at a later date. So in the COGS journal entry for the deal, we include the following entries to withhold this tax credit

Selling a traded-in unit

When the traded-in unit is sold we can then claim the tax credit that was withheld from the deal. With these units there is an additional condition that the final input tax credit claimed will be reduced if the unit is sold for less than what it was traded in for.

Taking the trade-in from the example above let’s assume it was resold for $4,400 (tax incl) which is NOT less than the original trade-in value. In the COGS journal entry for the deal selling this trade-in we include the following entries to claim the tax that was withheld when the unit was traded in

BUT, if that trade-in was resold for $2,200 (tax incl) which IS less than the original trade-in value, the entire $300 which was withheld cannot be claimed. Only $200 of it can be claimed and the remainder gets expensed

Therefore with this scenario, in the COGS journal entry for the deal selling this trade-in, we include the following entries to claim a portion of the tax that was withheld when the unit was traded in and the remainder gets expensed