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Tax reporting with Shopify Payments for Australia

As a merchant, you're required to abide by all applicable regulations, including tax reporting. Depending on your jurisdiction, Shopify Payments might also be required to report your sales to the local tax authorities.

In Australia, you need to file the amount of goods and services tax (GST) paid on transaction fees with the government. To get this information, you can either download a generated invoice, or export a file with your transaction information.

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Shopify Payments fees and GST (goods and service tax) in Australia

In Australia, GST at the current rate of 10% is charged on top of all Shopify Payments processing fees. The GST amount is not included within the processing fee.

Download a generated invoice

You can download monthly invoices to submit with your tax claim. Each invoice includes the total GST paid on transaction fees for all orders made in your store that month. This feature uses the UTC time zone, which might be different from your store's time zone. If you want a report that uses your store's time zone, then you can export a list of your store's transactions as a CSV file. The Documents section is available only to the store owner. Staff can't access this section even if they've been granted all available permissions.

The invoice for each month is generated on the 5th of the following month. For example, the invoice for June is generated on July 5th. If you had no transactions with Shopify Payments for a certain month, then no invoice is generated for that month.

Steps:

Desktop
  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Payments.
  2. In the Shopify Payments section, click View payouts.
  3. Click Documents.
  4. On the Tax documents dialog box, click Download PDF next to the invoice that you want to download.
Mobile

  1. From the Shopify app, tap Menu, and then tap Settings Settings.

  2. In the Store settings section, tap Payments.

  3. In the Shopify Payments section, tap View payouts.

  4. Tap Documents.

  5. On the Tax documents dialog box, tap Download PDF next to the invoice that you want to download.

You can now submit this invoice with your tax claims.

Export transactions

You can export a list of your store's transactions as a CSV file. The CSV file includes a GST column for Australian merchants.

Steps:

Desktop
  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Payments.
  2. In the Shopify Payments section, click the View payouts button.
  3. Click Transactions.
  4. Click Export. A CSV file downloads in your browser.
  5. Open the CSV file in a spreadsheet editor.
  6. The last column of the CSV file displays the amount of GST that's collected on each transaction.
  7. Use the SUM tool to calculate the total amount of GST that you've collected.
Mobile

  1. From the Shopify app, tap Menu, and then tap Settings Settings.

  2. In the Store settings section, tap Payments.

  3. In the Shopify Payments section, tap View payouts.

  4. Tap Transactions.

  5. Tap Export. A CSV file downloads in your browser.

  6. Open the CSV file in a spreadsheet editor.

  7. The last column of the CSV file displays the amount of GST that's collected on each transaction.

  8. Use the SUM tool to calculate the total amount of GST that you've collected.