As part of the continued economic response to COVID-19, the Deputy Commissioner of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has recently made a determination pursuant to subsection 20(4) of the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020, outlining further tests under which an entity may satisfy the decline in turnover required in order to receive JobKeeper payments. This article discusses the various new “alternative” tests that an entity may utilise under the determination.
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As foreshadowed in our earlier article, on 30 March 2020 the Federal Government announced further COVID-19 business support – the JobKeeper Payment.
Under the JobKeeper Payment, businesses significantly affected by Coronavirus outbreak be able to access a subsidy from the Government to continue paying their employees.