Does payment apply to nil reporting?
The payment is not applied based on the filings, all registered RFIs must pay the annual fee.
Do Secondary Users also receive the notification of receipt of payment? Service providers are no longer Primary Users?
Yes, the secondary user will be able to view the payment along with all other filings made for the RFI.
Are secondary users able to process the Annual fees on the portal?
Currently it is only for Primary Users, however, this may change by the time the portal becomes Live. Further updates will be provided once the portal is complete.
Is the applicable fee for each CRS return filed or just for the FI for that tax year with no separate fee per CRS return filed?
That is correct, the annual fees is applicable to the FI only.
For bulk payment options, does the PPOC/PU need to manually add each paying entity name and FI number? Is there a maximum number of entities per bulk payment filing?
Yes, the entity name and FI number has to be entered manually. There is no maximum amount of entities per bulk filing. The ITA recommends that where you are creating a bulk filing that this be limited to 60 entities at a time so that the system is not overwhelmed.
When using the BULK PAYMENT option, can we pay in one shot the Annual Submission Fee for all the FIs under our care and which are unrelated between them?
Yes. Once the payment portal is live full guidance on making payments will be issued and made available to all portal users.
It will be common payment for all files? Or should pay for each submitted file?
The payment is not applied based on the filings, all registered entities must pay the annual fee.