Unable to do business with ASIC

Mordd said :

Simple, register ABN under your own name, use that to register the business name, then amend the ABN to the new name, and done. From memory that was how I did it for a friend recently.

Great lateral thinking.

Simple, register ABN under your own name, use that to register the business name, then amend the ABN to the new name, and done. From memory that was how I did it for a friend recently.

I tried to use the web forms they provide to re-register a business name. Nope.

I think the computer bods refer to it as recursion – where one function initiates a second function which initiates the first again.

Anyway, they provided an e-mail alternative which I used and that eventually produced the desired result.

Providing a computer system doesn’t mean you’ve provided a service. My guess is that none of the staff who used to provide the service over the counter were asked how the new computer system should function.

Yes, it’s a real “Catch 22” to register a business name as the first thing they ask is details of your ABN so you then have to apply for and ABN on a separate page and guess what, they ask for your business or company name first.
It’s been designed by someone who has never been in business before, that is for sure.