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What a compliant invoice must show in Australia.

The fields, the party identifiers, the exact statutory wording for each tax treatment and the AUD rule — each cited to the statute or the tax authority, not a summary of one.

Tax figure in AUD Legal format EN 16931 UBL (Peppol BIS 3.0) PDF counts as the invoice

What the invoice must show

The content Australia's rules put on the face of the document, beyond the parties, line items and totals every invoice carries.

Document title
The words “TAX INVOICE” must appear (a seller registered for the tax)
Tax shown in
AUDGST amount in Australian dollars (Foreign Currency Conversion Determination, GSTR 2001/2)
Identify the buyer
From AUD 1,000 the buyer must be named/identified
Fixed statement
“Total price includes GST”

How each party is identified

The registration numbers and their formats the Australia rules expect on the invoice.

Seller
ABN Australian Business Number · 11 digits · always
Buyer
Buyer ABN ABN (A$1,000 or more; every Peppol invoice) · 11 digits · party established in the market

The exact wording, by tax treatment

When no tax is charged, the invoice has to say why — in the words the law names. Each is linked to the statute or tax authority it was read from.

Reverse chargestatute ↗
Reverse charge — recipient to account for GST (Division 84, GST Act 1999)
GST-free — export of goods (s. 38-185, GST Act 1999)
Zero-ratedstatute ↗
GST-free supply (Division 38, GST Act 1999)
Input-taxed supply (Division 40, GST Act 1999)
Out of scopestatute ↗
Not connected with Australia — no GST (s. 9-25, GST Act 1999)
Foreign seller (import)statute ↗
GST not charged by the supplier — GST on the taxable importation is paid by the importer (Division 13, GST Act 1999)

ATO: 'Tax invoice', seller identity, ABN, date, description incl. quantity and price, GST amount or 'Total price includes GST', extent taxable; buyer identity or ABN for A$1,000+; 'invoice' (not 'tax invoice') for an unregistered seller.

The format, and who sends it

A plain PDF still counts as the invoice in Australia; a structured e-invoice is accepted where the buyer asks for it.

Legal format(s)
EN 16931 UBL (Peppol BIS 3.0) · PDF invoice · (roadmap: Peppol PINT (national profile))
Transmission
Sent supplier→buyer; no government clearance in the path

Don't just look these rules up. Generate them.

Invoice by Juros-AI builds the Australia e-invoice — EN 16931 UBL (Peppol BIS 3.0) — and checks it against the official schema on your own machine before anything is sent. Invoice by Juros-AI reads any invoice into clean data and is adding compliant invoice creation — the same rules on this page, built into the engine, run entirely on your own hardware. No cloud, nothing uploaded, no figure invented.

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Every generated invoice is validated on your machine against the official artefacts — the OASIS UBL/CII schemas, the CEN EN 16931 schematron, Peppol BIS 3.0, KoSIT XRechnung, FatturaPA, KSeF FA(3) and the Peppol PINT packages. This page is a reference for build scoping; it is not legal or tax advice.

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