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4 weeks to go and over 1000 companies have registered for GST

07 April 2008

The GST team has now registered over one thousand separate entities for GST.   Registration started in January and has been done in phases according to taxable turnover.  All businesses with an annual taxable turnover in excess of £300,000 must register for GST by Law.  These registrations include group registrations.

Senator Le Sueur commented: “The GST team have been working hard to turn around applications within 10 working days and have been in direct contact with the public since January last year.  With four weeks to go until ‘GST-day’ on May 6th we are all expecting a busy few weeks helping companies ready themselves for GST.”

The GST team has been gearing up for GST for over a year.  They visited 117 businesses in March and have been holding educational evenings for those businesses already registered up to three times a week.  The team also answer calls and emails sent into the GST Help Desk.

Work on the legislation for GST has also been continuing and the States have recently approved Regulations for International Services Entities and amendments to the GST law.  In addition new directions have been written, these include:

  1. instances when GST tax credits will be paid back to people rather than carried over to the next tax quarter, 
  2. where accommodation is supplied (under a contract of employment) GST will not be charged and will be treated as though it’s zero-rated,
  3. where accommodation supplied in lodging houses will also be treated as though it was zero-rated.

Senator Le Sueur has also extended under transitional arrangements the zero-rating for hotel accommodation, for GST purposes for the duration of 2008, to self-catering accommodation and campsites. 

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Notes to editors

1) Please contact Senator Le Sueur on 07797718798

2) All the published information is available on www.gov.je/gst and from the parish halls.

3) The GST help desk telephone number is 440555 and the email is gst@gov.je

4) There is also a dedicated Customs help desk for Customs and import information Tel: 447977 email: customs.gst@gov.je

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