Overdue BAS for rideshare drivers: registered from the first trip

Let 2Fin do the boring bits

Catching up is mostly sorting, and sorting is the part 2Fin takes off you. Bring in two years of bank statements at once — CSV, Excel or PDF, several files in one go — and Fin reads every line; in testing, 1,891 transactions came in in about a second on a desktop computer. Each transaction is categorised with its GST or VAT worked out, every overdue period is listed with its due date, and Fill all periods saves a draft of each one with a single press.

What is left for you is the decisions, not the data entry. Purchases are grouped by payee — the fuel, the servicing, the phone plan — so you answer each payee once and the answer covers every period. Fin’s confident guesses (80% sure or more) can be accepted in one tap and undone one by one, and a payee can become a rule so the next import sorts itself. Every figure opens to the transactions inside it, and the finished statements export for you or your agent to check and lodge.

Registration comes first

Ride-sourcing counts as taxi travel for GST, so the usual $75,000 threshold does not apply: you need an ABN and GST registration before your first trip. If you already had an ABN, you register for GST within 21 days of starting. If you drove without registering, you may owe GST on fares from the date you should have registered, even though it was never added to them. Raise it with the ATO before lodging anything; backdating is generally limited to 4 years. This is general information. Check what applies to you with a registered tax or BAS agent, or with the tax office.

Give your ABN to the platform, which may issue tax invoices on your behalf.

The car, fuel and phone

A rideshare car is a car for GST, so its credit is capped at 1/11 of the car limit — $6,353 for 2026–27 — and then cut to the business-use share; keep a record of business use, such as a logbook. Fuel, servicing, cleaning and your phone follow the same business-use rule. Fuel tax credits are a separate scheme that does not cover light vehicles on public roads.

Rideshare in Canada, the UK and New Zealand

Canada has the same rule as Australia: taxi and commercial ride-sharing drivers must register for GST/HST even as small suppliers; see the Canada guide. In the UK and New Zealand, drivers register on the usual thresholds of £90,000 and $60,000.