GST: Experiencing difficulties in paying your tax?

Key requirements

The source covers unexpected hardship such as substantial income reduction, medical expenses and business financial distress. Longer instalments require GIRO and may require documents; approval is not automatic. Corporate-tax and GST businesses with existing GIRO use the specified cancel-and-reactivate process to create the new plan, rather than the individual-tax edit route. Check the approved plan before changing payments. The separate twenty-four-month retiree property-tax scheme has its own 2026 age, occupancy and income conditions and is not a GST instalment entitlement. Ignoring a bill while awaiting relief can still produce late-payment consequences.