GigFee/Guides
GigFee guides
Nobody teaches this part at music school. These are plain answers to the paperwork side of playing for a living in Australia, written for what the rules actually are in 2026 rather than what they were when your last accountant explained them.
Everything here is general information rather than advice, and every page says where its facts came from so you can check them. If something changes, the pages change with it.
The obligation is thirty-four years old. The seven business day deadline is new, and it is why your booker suddenly wants your fund's USI. Start here.
Where the line sits between a venue repricing you and a venue paying you short, the arithmetic both ways, and what to say when it comes up.
Super gets charged twice on the same money and the band leader wears it. A $1,200 four-piece worked through, and four ways to structure the night.
Fund name, ABN, USI, member number and your TFN. Where to find each one, and the block to keep in your notes app.
An ABN does not switch super off. A genuine company can, and that is not automatically good news for you. Plus what the industry is asking to change.
GigFee turns a gig into a tax invoice from your phone. ABN checked as you type, GST worked out, superannuation shown the way a performer's invoice should show it, and band splits kept off the client's copy. Free to use, with no account and no card.
