If your business engages contractors and suppliers, you will need to keep all records relating to payments made to them to claim deductions.
If your business is required to complete a Taxable payments annual report (TPAR) by 28 August each year, you need to keep records that help you to tell us about payments made to contractors for providing TPAR-related services. Some government entities also need to report payments and grants they have made in a TPAR.
Information your records need to show |
Examples of types of records |
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Payee details of your contractors:
Payment amounts:
Payments your business makes to contractors supplying certain services. If you are a business supplying:
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How long you need to keep contractor and supplier records
You need to keep these records for 5 years starting from when you prepared or obtained the records, or completed the transactions or acts those records relate to, whichever is later.
You should keep records long enough to cover the period of review (also known as the amendment period) for an assessment that uses information from the record.
Record keeping
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Record keeping overview |
10 mins | |||||||||||||
Tasks and tips |
6 mins | |||||||||||||
Starting your business records |
2 mins | |||||||||||||
Digital record keeping |
5 mins | |||||||||||||
Manual or paper record keeping |
2 mins | |||||||||||||
Banking records |
2 mins | |||||||||||||
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Income records |
3 mins | |||||||||||||
Accounting for private use of assets |
9 mins | |||||||||||||
Motor vehicle deductions records |
2 mins | |||||||||||||
Home-based business deductions records |
1 mins | |||||||||||||
Other deductions records |
1 mins | |||||||||||||
Stock and asset records |
5 mins | |||||||||||||
GST records |
1 mins | |||||||||||||
Employee records |
7 mins | |||||||||||||
Car fringe benefits records |
1 mins | |||||||||||||
Expense payment FBT records |
2 mins | |||||||||||||
Contractor records |
2 mins | |||||||||||||
Sharing economy records |
1 mins | |||||||||||||
Cryptocurrency records |
1 mins | |||||||||||||
Records for other taxes |
5 mins | |||||||||||||
Sole trader structure records |
4 mins | |||||||||||||
Partnership structure records |
3 mins | |||||||||||||
Company structure records |
3 mins | |||||||||||||
Trust structure records |
1 mins | |||||||||||||
Changing your business structure records |
1 mins | |||||||||||||
Selling or closing your business records |
2 mins | |||||||||||||
Related courses |
1 mins | |||||||||||||
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