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Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

No. 38, 1997

Compilation No. 216

Compilation date: 27 November 2020

Includes amendments up to: Act No. 107, 2020

Registered: 9 December 2020

This compilation is in 12 volumes

Volume 1: sections 11 to 3655

Volume 2: sections 401 to 6730

Volume 3: sections 701 to 12135

Volume 4: sections 1221 to 19785

Volume 5: sections 2001 to 25315

Volume 6: sections 2751 to 31385

Volume 7: sections 3151 to 42070

Volume 8: sections 6151 to 72140

Volume 9: sections 7231 to 880205

Volume 10: sections 9001 to 9951

Volume 11: Endnotes 1 to 3

Volume 12: Endnote 4

Each volume has its own contents

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 27 November 2020 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

Uncommenced amendments

The effect of uncommenced amendments is not shown in the text of the compiled law. Any uncommenced amendments affecting the law are accessible on the Legislation Register (www.legislation.gov.au). The details of amendments made up to, but not commenced at, the compilation date are underlined in the endnotes. For more information on any uncommenced amendments, see the series page on the Legislation Register for the compiled law.

Application, saving and transitional provisions for provisions and amendments

If the operation of a provision or amendment of the compiled law is affected by an application, saving or transitional provision that is not included in this compilation, details are included in the endnotes.

Editorial changes

For more information about any editorial changes made in this compilation, see the endnotes.

Modifications

If the compiled law is modified by another law, the compiled law operates as modified but the modification does not amend the text of the law. Accordingly, this compilation does not show the text of the compiled law as modified. For more information on any modifications, see the series page on the Legislation Register for the compiled law.

Selfrepealing provisions

If a provision of the compiled law has been repealed in accordance with a provision of the law, details are included in the endnotes.

 

 

 

Contents

Chapter 1—Introduction and core provisions

Part 11—Preliminary

Division 1—Preliminary

11 Short title

12 Commencement

13 Differences in style not to affect meaning

14 Application

17 Administration of this Act

Part 12—A Guide to this Act

Division 2—How to use this Act

Subdivision 2A—How to find your way around

21 The design

Subdivision 2B—How the Act is arranged

25 The pyramid

Subdivision 2C—How to identify defined terms and find the definitions

210 When defined terms are identified

215 When terms are not identified

220 Identifying the defined term in a definition

Subdivision 2D—The numbering system

225 Purposes

230 Gaps in the numbering

Subdivision 2E—Status of Guides and other nonoperative material

235 Nonoperative material

240 Guides

245 Other material

Division 3—What this Act is about

35 Annual income tax

310 Your other obligations as a taxpayer

315 Your obligations other than as a taxpayer

Part 13—Core provisions

Division 4—How to work out the income tax payable on your taxable income

41 Who must pay income tax

45 Meaning of you

410 How to work out how much income tax you must pay

415 How to work out your taxable income

425 Special provisions for working out your basic income tax liability

Division 5—How to work out when to pay your income tax

Guide to Division 5 17

51 What this Division is about

Subdivision 5A—How to work out when to pay your income tax

55 When income tax is payable

510 When shortfall interest charge is payable

515 General interest charge payable on unpaid income tax or shortfall interest charge

Division 6—Assessable income and exempt income

Guide to Division 6 21

61 Diagram showing relationships among concepts in this Division

Operative provisions

65 Income according to ordinary concepts (ordinary income)

610 Other assessable income (statutory income)

615 What is not assessable income

620 Exempt income

623 Nonassessable nonexempt income

625 Relationships among various rules about ordinary income

Division 8—Deductions

81 General deductions

85 Specific deductions

810 No double deductions

Part 14—Checklists of what is covered by concepts used in the core provisions

Division 9—Entities that must pay income tax

91A Effect of this Division

91 List of entities

95 Entities that work out their income tax by reference to something other than taxable income

Division 10—Particular kinds of assessable income

101 Effect of this Division

105 List of provisions about assessable income

Division 11—Particular kinds of nonassessable income

Subdivision 11A—Lists of classes of exempt income

111A Effect of this Subdivision

111 Overview

115 Entities that are exempt, no matter what kind of ordinary or statutory income they have

1115 Ordinary or statutory income which is exempt

Subdivision 11B—Particular kinds of nonassessable nonexempt income

1150 Effect of this Subdivision

1155 List of nonassessable nonexempt income provisions

Division 12—Particular kinds of deductions

121 Effect of this Division

125 List of provisions about deductions

Division 13—Tax offsets

131A Effect of this Division

131 List of tax offsets

Chapter 2—Liability rules of general application

Part 21—Assessable income

Division 15—Some items of assessable income

Guide to Division 15 92

151 What this Division is about

Operative provisions

152 Allowances and other things provided in respect of employment or services

153 Return to work payments

155 Accrued leave transfer payments

1510 Bounties and subsidies

1515 Profitmaking undertaking or plan

1520 Royalties

1522 Payments made to members of a copyright collecting society

1523 Payments of resale royalties by resale royalty collecting society

1525 Amount received for lease obligation to repair

1530 Insurance or indemnity for loss of assessable income

1535 Interest on overpayments and early payments of tax

1540 Providing mining, quarrying or prospecting information or geothermal exploration information

1545 Amounts paid under forestry agreements

1546 Amounts paid under forestry managed investment schemes

1550 Work in progress amounts

1555 Certain amounts paid under funeral policy

1560 Certain amounts paid under scholarship plan

1570 Reimbursed car expenses

1575 Bonuses

1580 Franked distributions entitled to a foreign income tax deduction—Additional Tier 1 capital exception

Division 17—Effect of GST etc. on assessable income

Guide to Division 17 102

171 What this Division is about

175 GST and increasing adjustments

1710 Certain decreasing adjustments

1715 Elements in calculation of amounts

1720 GST groups and GST joint ventures

1730 Special credits because of indirect tax transition

1735 Certain sections not to apply to certain assets or expenditure

Division 20—Amounts included to reverse the effect of past deductions

Guide to Division 20 105

201 What this Division is about

205 Other provisions that reverse the effect of deductions

Subdivision 20A—Insurance, indemnity or other recoupment for deductible expenses

Guide to Subdivision 20A

2010 What this Subdivision is about

2015 How to use this Subdivision

What is an assessable recoupment?

2020 Assessable recoupments

2025 What is recoupment?

2030 Tables of deductions for which recoupments are assessable

How much is included in your assessable income?

2035 If the expense is deductible in a single income year

2040 If the expense is deductible over 2 or more income years

2045 Effect of balancing charge

2050 If the expense is only partially deductible

2055 Meaning of previous recoupment law

What if you can deduct a loss or outgoing incurred by another entity?

2060 If you are the only entity that can deduct an amount for the loss or outgoing

2065 If 2 or more entities can deduct amounts for the loss or outgoing

Subdivision 20B—Disposal of a car for which lease payments have been deducted

Guide to Subdivision 20B

20100 What this Subdivision is about

20105 Map of this Subdivision

The usual case 

20110 Disposal of a leased car for profit

20115 Working out the profit on the disposal

20120 Meaning of notional depreciation

The associate case

20125 Disposal of a leased car for profit

Successive leases

20130 Successive leases

Previous disposals of the car

20135 No amount included if earlier disposal for market value

20140 Reducing the amount to be included if there has been an earlier disposal

Miscellaneous rules

20145 No amount included if you inherited the car

20150 Reducing the amount to be included if another provision requires you to include an amount for the disposal

20155 Exception for particular cars taken on hire

20157 Exception for small business entities

Disposals of interests in a car: special rules apply

20160 Disposal of an interest in a car

Part 25—Rules about deductibility of particular kinds of amounts

Division 25—Some amounts you can deduct

Guide to Division 25 137

251 What this Division is about

Operative provisions

255 Taxrelated expenses

2510 Repairs

2515 Amount paid for lease obligation to repair

2520 Lease document expenses

2525 Borrowing expenses

2530 Expenses of discharging a mortgage

2535 Bad debts

2540 Loss from profitmaking undertaking or plan

2545 Loss by theft etc.

2547 Misappropriation where a balancing adjustment event occurs

2550 Payments of pensions, gratuities or retiring allowances

2555 Payments to associations

2560 Parliament election expenses

2565 Local government election expenses

2570 Deduction for election expenses does not extend to entertainment

2575 Rates and land taxes on premises used to produce mutual receipts

2585 Certain returns in respect of debt interests

2590 Deduction relating to foreign nonassessable nonexempt income

2595 Deduction for work in progress amounts

25100 Travel between workplaces

25110 Capital expenditure to terminate lease etc.

25115 Deduction for payment of rent from land investment by operating entity to asset entity in relation to approved economic infrastructure facility

25120 Transitional—deduction for payment of rent from land investment by operating entity to asset entity

Division 26—Some amounts you cannot deduct, or cannot deduct in full

Guide to Division 26 163

261 What this Division is about

Operative provisions

265 Penalties

2610 Leave payments

2615 Franchise fees windfall tax

2617 Commonwealth places windfall tax

2619 Rebatable benefits

2620 Assistance to students

2622 Political contributions and gifts

2625 Interest or royalty

2625A Seasonal Labour Mobility Program

2626 Nonshare distributions and dividends

2630 Relative’s travel expenses

2631 Travel related to use of residential premises as residential accommodation

2635 Reducing deductions for amounts paid to related entities

2640 Maintaining your family

2645 Recreational club expenses

2647 Nonbusiness boating activities

2650 Expenses for a leisure facility

2652 Bribes to foreign public officials

2653 Bribes to public officials

2654 Expenditure relating to illegal activities

2655 Limit on deductions

2660 Superannuation contributions surcharge

2668 Loss from disposal of eligible venture capital investments

2670 Loss from disposal of venture capital equity

2674 Excess concessional contributions charge cannot be deducted

2675 Excess nonconcessional contributions tax cannot be deducted

2680 Financing costs on loans to pay superannuation contribution

2685 Borrowing costs on loans to pay life insurance premiums

2690 Superannuation supervisory levy

2695 Superannuation guarantee charge

2697 National Disability Insurance Scheme expenditure

2698 Division 293 tax cannot be deducted

2699 Excess transfer balance tax cannot be deducted

26100 Expenditure attributable to water infrastructure improvement payments

26102 Expenses associated with holding vacant land

26105 Noncompliant payments for work and services

Division 27—Effect of input tax credits etc. on deductions

Guide to Division 27 198

271 What this Division is about

Subdivision 27A—General

275 Input tax credits and decreasing adjustments

2710 Certain increasing adjustments

2715 GST payments

2720 Elements in calculation of amounts

2725 GST groups and GST joint ventures

2735 Certain sections not to apply to certain assets or expenditure

Subdivision 27B—Effect of input tax credits etc. on capital allowances

2780 Cost or opening adjustable value of depreciating assets reduced for input tax credits

2785 Cost or opening adjustable value of depreciating assets reduced: decreasing adjustments

2787 Certain decreasing adjustments included in assessable income

2790 Cost or opening adjustable value of depreciating assets increased: increasing adjustments

2792 Certain increasing adjustments can be deducted

2795 Balancing adjustment events

27100 Pooling

27105 Other Division 40 expenditure

27110 Input tax credit etc. relating to 2 or more things

Division 28—Car expenses

Guide to Division 28 214

281 What this Division is about

285 Map of this Division

Subdivision 28A—Deductions for car expenses

2810 Application of Division 28

2812 Car expenses

2813 Meaning of car expense

Subdivision 28B—Choosing which method to use

Guide to Subdivision 28B

2814 What this Subdivision is about

2815 Choosing between the 2 methods

Operative provision

2820 Rules governing choice of method

Subdivision 28C—The “cents per kilometre” method

2825 How to calculate your deduction

2830 Capital allowances

2835 Substantiation

Subdivision 28F—The “log book” method

2890 How to calculate your deduction

2895 Eligibility

28100 Substantiation

Subdivision 28G—Keeping a log book

Guide to Subdivision 28G

28105 What this Subdivision is about

28110 Steps for keeping a log book

Operative provisions

28115 Income years for which you need to keep a log book

28120 Choosing the 12 week period for a log book

28125 How to keep a log book

28130 Replacing one car with another

Subdivision 28H—Odometer records for a period

Guide to Subdivision 28H

28135 What this Subdivision is about

Operative provision

28140 How to keep odometer records for a car for a period

Subdivision 28I—Retaining the log book and odometer records

28150 Retaining the log book for the retention period

28155 Retaining odometer records

Subdivision 28J—Situations where you cannot use, or do not need to use, one of the 2 methods

Guide to Subdivision 28J

28160 What this Subdivision is about

Operative provisions

28165 Exception for particular cars taken on hire

28170 Exception for particular cars used in particular ways

28175 Further miscellaneous exceptions

28180 Car expenses related to award transport payments

28185 Application of Subdivision 28J to recipients and payers of certain withholding payments

Division 30—Gifts or contributions

Guide to Division 30 237

301 What this Division is about

305 How to find your way around this Division

3010 Index

Subdivision 30A—Deductions for gifts or contributions

3015 Table of gifts or contributions that you can deduct

3017 Requirements for certain recipients

Subdivision 30B—Tables of recipients for deductible gifts

Health 

3020 Health

Education 

3025 Education

3030 Gifts that must be for certain purposes

3035 Rural schools hostel buildings

3037 Scholarship etc. funds

Research 

3040 Research

Welfare and rights

3045 Welfare and rights

3045A Australian disaster relief funds—declarations by Minister

3046 Australian disaster relief funds—declarations under State and Territory law

Defence 

3050 Defence

Environment 

3055 The environment

3060 Gifts to a National Parks body or conservation body must satisfy certain requirements

Industry, trade and design

3065 Industry, trade and design

The family 

3070 The family

3075 Marriage education organisations must be approved

International affairs

3080 International affairs

3085 Developing country relief funds

3086 Developed country disaster relief funds

Sports and recreation

3090 Sports and recreation

Philanthropic trusts

3095 Philanthropic trusts

Cultural organisations

30100 Cultural organisations

Fire and emergency services

30102 Fire and emergency services

Other recipients

30105 Other recipients

Subdivision 30BA—Endorsement of deductible gift recipients

Guide to Subdivision 30BA

30115 What this Subdivision is about

Endorsement as a deductible gift recipient

30120 Endorsement by Commissioner

30125 Entitlement to endorsement

30130 Maintaining a gift fund

Government entities treated like entities

30180 How this Subdivision applies to government entities

Subdivision 30C—Rules applying to particular gifts of property

Valuation requirements

30200 Getting written valuations

30205 Proceeds of the sale would have been assessable

30210 Approved valuers

30212 Valuations by the Commissioner

Working out the amount you can deduct for a gift of property

30215 How much you can deduct

30220 Reducing the amount you can deduct

Joint ownership of property

30225 Gift of property by joint owners

Subdivision 30CA—Administrative requirements relating to ABNs

Guide to Subdivision 30CA

30226 What this Subdivision is about

Requirements 

30227 Entities to which this Subdivision applies

30228 Content of receipt for gift or contribution

30229 Australian Business Register must show deductibility of gifts to deductible gift recipient

Subdivision 30DA—Donations to political parties and independent candidates and members

Guide to Subdivision 30DA

30241 What this Subdivision is about

Operative provisions

30242 Deduction for political contributions and gifts

30243 Amount of the deduction

30244 When an individual is an independent candidate

30245 When an individual is an independent member

Subdivision 30DB—Spreading certain gift and covenant deductions over up to 5 income years

Guide to Subdivision 30DB

30246 What this Subdivision is about

Operative provisions

30247 Gifts and covenants for which elections can be made

30248 Making an election

30249 Effect of election

30249A Requirements—environmental property gifts

30249B Requirements—heritage property gifts

30249D Requirements—conservation covenants

Subdivision 30E—Register of environmental organisations

Guide to Subdivision 30E

30250 What this Subdivision is about

Operative provisions

30255 Establishing the register

30260 Meaning of environmental organisation

30265 Its principal purpose must be protecting the environment

30270 Other requirements it must satisfy

30275 Further requirement for a body corporate or a cooperative society

30280 What must be on the register

30285 Removal from the register

Subdivision 30EA—Register of harm prevention charities

Guide to Subdivision 30EA

30286 What this Subdivision is about

Operative provisions

30287 Establishing the register

30288 Meaning of harm prevention charity

30289 Principal activity—promoting the prevention or control of harm or abuse

30289A Other requirements

30289B What must be on the register

30289C Removal from the register

Subdivision 30F—Register of cultural organisations

Guide to Subdivision 30F

30290 What this Subdivision is about

Operative provisions

30295 Establishing the register

30300 Meaning of cultural organisation

30305 What must be on the register

30310 Removal from the register

Subdivision 30G—Index to this Division

30315 Index

30320 Effect of this Subdivision

Division 31—Conservation covenants

Guide to Division 31 347

311 What this Division is about

Operative provisions

315 Deduction for entering into conservation covenant

3110 Requirements for fund, authority or institution

3115 Valuations by the Commissioner

Division 32—Entertainment expenses

Guide to Division 32 350

321 What this Division is about

Subdivision 32A—No deduction for entertainment expenses

325 No deduction for entertainment expenses

3210 Meaning of entertainment

3215 No deduction for property used for providing entertainment

Subdivision 32B—Exceptions

3220 The main exception—fringe benefits

3225 The tables set out the other exceptions

3230 Employer expenses

3235 Seminar expenses

3240 Entertainment industry expenses

3245 Promotion and advertising expenses

3250 Other expenses

Subdivision 32C—Definitions relevant to the exceptions

3255 Inhouse dining facility (employer expenses table items 1.1 and 1.2)

3260 Dining facility (employer expenses table item 1.3)

3265 Seminars (seminar expenses table item 2.1)

Subdivision 32D—Inhouse dining facilities (employer expenses table item 1.2)

3270 $30 is assessable for each meal provided to nonemployee in an inhouse dining facility

Subdivision 32E—Antiavoidance

3275 Commissioner may treat you as having incurred entertainment expense

Subdivision 32F—Special rules for companies and partnerships

3280 Company directors

3285 Directors, employees and property of whollyowned group company

3290 Partnerships

Division 34—Noncompulsory uniforms

Guide to Division 34 364

341 What this Division is about

343 What you need to read

Subdivision 34A—Application of Division 34

345 This Division applies to employees and others

347 This Division applies to employers and others

Subdivision 34B—Deduction for your noncompulsory uniform

3410 What you can deduct

3415 What is a noncompulsory uniform?

3420 What are occupation specific clothing and protective clothing?

Subdivision 34C—Registering the design of a noncompulsory uniform

3425 Application to register the design

3430 Industry Secretary’s decision on application

3433 Written notice of decision

3435 When uniform becomes registered

Subdivision 34D—Appeals from Industry Secretary’s decision

3440 Review of decisions by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Subdivision 34E—The Register of Approved Occupational Clothing

3445 Keeping of the Register

3450 Changes to the Register

Subdivision 34F—Approved occupational clothing guidelines

3455 Approved occupational clothing guidelines

Subdivision 34G—The Industry Secretary

3460 Industry Secretary to give Commissioner information about entries

3465 Delegation of powers by Industry Secretary

Division 35—Deferral of losses from noncommercial business activities

Guide to Division 35 375

351 What this Division is about

Operative provisions

355 Object

3510 Deferral of deductions from noncommercial business activities

3515 Modification if you have exempt income

3520 Modification if you become bankrupt

3525 Application of Division to certain partnerships

3530 Assessable income test

3535 Profits test

3540 Real property test

3545 Other assets test

3550 Apportionment

3555 Commissioner’s discretion

Division 36—Tax losses of earlier income years

Guide to Division 36 387

361 What this Division is about

Subdivision 36A—Deductions for tax losses of earlier income years

3610 How to calculate a tax loss for an income year

3615 How to deduct tax losses of entities other than corporate tax entities

3617 How to deduct tax losses of corporate tax entities

3620 Net exempt income

3625 Special rules about tax losses

Subdivision 36B—Effect of you becoming bankrupt

Guide to Subdivision 36B

3630 What this Subdivision is about

Operative provisions

3635 No deduction for tax loss incurred before bankruptcy

3640 Deduction for amounts paid for debts incurred before bankruptcy

3645 Limit on deductions for amounts paid

Subdivision 36C—Excess franking offsets

Guide to Subdivision 36C

3650 What this Subdivision is about

Operative provision

3655 Converting excess franking offsets into tax loss

An Act about income tax and related matters

Chapter 1Introduction and core provisions

Part 11Preliminary

Division 1Preliminary

Table of sections

11 Short title

12 Commencement

13 Differences in style not to affect meaning

14 Application

17 Administration of this Act

11  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.

12  Commencement

  This Act commences on 1 July 1997.

13  Differences in style not to affect meaning

 (1) This Act contains provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 in a rewritten form.

 (2) If:

 (a) that Act expressed an idea in a particular form of words; and

 (b) this Act appears to have expressed the same idea in a different form of words in order to use a clearer or simpler style;

the ideas are not to be taken to be different just because different forms of words were used.

Note: A public or private ruling about a provision of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 is taken also to be a ruling about the corresponding provision of this Act, so far as the 2 provisions express the same ideas: see section 35785 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

14  Application

  This Act extends to every external Territory referred to in the definition of Australia.

17  Administration of this Act

  The Commissioner has the general administration of this Act.

Note: An effect of this provision is that people who acquire information under this Act are subject to the confidentiality obligations and exceptions in Division 355 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

Part 12A Guide to this Act

Division 2How to use this Act

Table of Subdivisions

2A How to find your way around

2B How the Act is arranged

2C How to identify defined terms and find the definitions

2D The numbering system

2E Status of Guides and other nonoperative material

Subdivision 2AHow to find your way around

21  The design

  This Act is designed to help you identify accurately and quickly the provisions that are relevant to your purpose in reading the income tax law.

  The Act contains tables, diagrams and signposts to help you navigate your way.

  You can start at Division 3 (What this Act is about) and follow the signposts as far into the Act as you need to go. You may also encounter signposts to several areas of the law that are relevant to you. Each one should be followed.

  Sometimes they will lead down through several levels of detail. At each successive level, the rules are structured in a similar way. They will often be preceded by a Guide to the rules at that level. The rules themselves will usually deal first with the general or most common case and then with the more particular or special cases.

Subdivision 2BHow the Act is arranged

25  The pyramid

  This Act is arranged in a way that reflects the principle of moving from the general case to the particular.

  In this respect, the conceptual structure of the Act is something like a pyramid. The pyramid shape illustrates the way the income tax law is organised, moving down from the central or core provisions at the top of the pyramid, to general rules of wide application and then to the more specialised topics.

 

 

Note: The Taxation Administration Act 1953 contains the provisions on collection and recovery of tax and provisions on administration.

Subdivision 2CHow to identify defined terms and find the definitions

Table of sections

210 When defined terms are identified

215 When terms are not identified

220 Identifying the defined term in a definition

210  When defined terms are identified

 (1) Many of the terms used in the income tax law are defined.

 (2) Most defined terms in this Act are identified by an asterisk appearing at the start of the term: as in “*business”. The footnote that goes with the asterisk contains a signpost to the Dictionary definitions starting at section 9951.

215  When terms are not identified

 (1) Once a defined term has been identified by an asterisk, later occurrences of the term in the same subsection are not usually asterisked.

 (2) Terms are not asterisked in the nonoperative material contained in this Act.

Note: The nonoperative material is described in Subdivision 2E.

 (3) The following basic terms used throughout the Act are not identified with an asterisk. They fall into 2 groups:

Key participants in the income tax system

 

Item

This term:

is defined in:

1.

Australian resident

section 9951

2.

Commissioner

section 9951

3.

company

section 9951

4.

entity

section 960100

4A.

foreign resident

section 9951

5.

individual

section 9951

6.

partnership

section 9951

7.

person

section 9951

8.

trustee

section 9951

9.

you

section 45

Core concepts

 

Item

This term:

is defined in:

1.

amount

section 9951

2.

assessable income

Division 6

3.

assessment

section 9951

3A.

Australia

Subdivision 960T

4.

deduct, deduction

Division 8

5.

income tax

section 9951

6.

income year

section 9951

7.

taxable income

section 415

8.

this Act

section 9951

220  Identifying the defined term in a definition

  Within a definition, the defined term is identified by bold italics.

Subdivision 2DThe numbering system

Table of sections

225 Purposes

230 Gaps in the numbering

225  Purposes

  Two main purposes of the numbering system in this Act are:

 For example, the number of Part 215 indicates that the Part is in Chapter 2. Similarly, the number of section 16570 indicates that the section is in Division 165.

230  Gaps in the numbering

  There are gaps in the numbering system to allow for the insertion of new Divisions and sections.

Subdivision 2EStatus of Guides and other nonoperative material

Table of sections

235 Nonoperative material

240 Guides

245 Other material

235  Nonoperative material

  In addition to the operative provisions themselves, this Act contains other material to help you identify accurately and quickly the provisions that are relevant to you and to help you understand them.

  This other material falls into 2 main categories.

240  Guides

  The first is the “Guides”. A Guide consists of sections under a heading indicating that what follows is a Guide to a particular Subdivision, Division etc.

  Guides form part of this Act but are kept separate from the operative provisions. In interpreting an operative provision, a Guide may only be considered for limited purposes. These are set out in section 950150.

245  Other material

  The other category consists of material such as notes and examples. These also form part of the Act. They are distinguished by type size from the operative provisions, but are not kept separate from them.

Division 3What this Act is about

Table of sections

35 Annual income tax

310 Your other obligations as a taxpayer

315 Your obligations other than as a taxpayer

35  Annual income tax

 (1) Income tax is payable for each year by each individual and company, and by some other entities.

Note 1: Individuals who are Australian residents, and some trustees, are also liable to pay Medicare levy for each year. See the Medicare Levy Act 1986 and Part VIIB of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

Note 2: Income tax is imposed by the Income Tax Act 1986 and the other Acts referred to in the definition of income tax in section 9951.

 (2) Most entities have to pay instalments of income tax before the income tax they actually have to pay can be worked out.

 (3) This Act answers these questions:

 1. What instalments of income tax do you have to pay? When and how do you pay them?

See Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

 2. How do you work out how much income tax you must pay?

See Division 4, starting at section 41.

 3. What happens if your income tax is more than the instalments you have paid? When and how must you pay the rest?

 See Division 5 of this Act and Part 415 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

 4. What happens if your income tax is less than the instalments you have paid? How do you get a refund?

See Division 3A of Part IIB of the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

 5. What are your other obligations as a taxpayer, besides paying instalments and the rest of your income tax?

 See section 310.

 6. Do you have any other obligations under the income tax law?

 See section 315.

 7. If a dispute between you and the Commissioner of Taxation cannot be settled by agreement, what procedures for objection, review and appeal are available?

 See Part IVC (sections 14ZL to 14ZZS) of the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

310  Your other obligations as a taxpayer

 (1) Besides paying instalments and the rest of your income tax, your main obligations as a taxpayer are:

 (a) to keep records and provide information as required by:

 (b) to lodge income tax returns as required by:

Tax file numbers

 (2) Under Part VA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, a tax file number can be issued to you. You are not obliged to apply for a tax file number. However, if you do not quote one in certain situations:

315  Your obligations other than as a taxpayer

  Your main obligations under the income tax law, other than as a taxpayer are:

See Part 45 (Collection of income tax instalments),
starting at section 7501.

Part 13Core provisions

Division 4How to work out the income tax payable on your taxable income

Table of sections

41 Who must pay income tax

45 Meaning of you

410 How to work out how much income tax you must pay

415 How to work out your taxable income

425 Special provisions for working out your basic income tax liability

41  Who must pay income tax

  Income tax is payable by each individual and company, and by some other entities.

Note: The actual amount of income tax payable may be nil.

For a list of the entities that must pay income tax,
see Division 9, starting at section 91.

45  Meaning of you

  If a provision of this Act uses the expression you, it applies to entities generally, unless its application is expressly limited.

Note 1: The expression you is not used in provisions that apply only to entities that are not individuals.

Note 2: For circumstances in which the identity of an entity that is a managed investment scheme for the purposes of the Corporations Act 2001 is not affected by changes to the scheme, see Subdivision 960E of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997.

410  How to work out how much income tax you must pay

 (1) You must pay income tax for each *financial year.

 (2) Your income tax is worked out by reference to your taxable income for the income year. The income year is the same as the *financial year, except in these cases:

 (a) for a company, the income year is the previous financial year;

 (b) if you have an accounting period that is not the same as the financial year, each such accounting period or, for a company, each previous accounting period is an income year.

Note 1: The Commissioner can allow you to adopt an accounting period ending on a day other than 30 June. See section 18 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

Note 2: An accounting period ends, and a new accounting period starts, when a partnership becomes, or ceases to be, a VCLP, an ESVCLP, an AFOF or a VCMP. See section 18A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 (3) Work out your income tax for the *financial year as follows:

  

Method statement

Step 1. Work out your taxable income for the income year.

To do this, see section 415.

Step 2. Work out your basic income tax liability on your taxable income using:

 (a) the income tax rate or rates that apply to you for the income year; and

 (b) any special provisions that apply to working out that liability.

See the Income Tax Rates Act 1986 and section 425.

Step 3. Work out your tax offsets for the income year. A tax offset reduces the amount of income tax you have to pay.

For the list of tax offsets, see section 131.

Step 4. Subtract your *tax offsets from your basic income tax liability. The result is how much income tax you owe for the *financial year.

Note 1: Division 63 explains what happens if your tax offsets exceed your basic income tax liability. How the excess is treated depends on the type of tax offset.

Note 2: Section 411 of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 (which is about the temporary budget repair levy) may increase the amount of income tax worked out under this section.

Income tax worked out on another basis

 (4) For some entities, some or all of their income tax for the *financial year is worked out by reference to something other than taxable income for the income year.

See section 95.

415  How to work out your taxable income

 (1) Work out your taxable income for the income year like this:

  

Method statement

Step 1. Add up all your assessable income for the income year.

To find out about your assessable income, see Division 6.

Step 2. Add up your deductions for the income year.

To find out what you can deduct, see Division 8.

Step 3. Subtract your deductions from your assessable income (unless they exceed it). The result is your taxable income. (If the deductions equal or exceed the assessable income, you don’t have a taxable income.)

Note: If the deductions exceed the assessable income, you may have a tax loss which you may be able to utilise in that or a later income year: see Division 36.

 (2) There are cases where taxable income is worked out in a special way:

 

Item

For this case ...

See:

1.

A company does not maintain continuity of ownership and control during the income year and does not satisfy the business continuity test

Subdivision 165B

1B.

An entity is a *member of a *consolidated group at any time in the income year

Part 390

2.

A company becomes a PDF (pooled development fund) during the income year, and the PDF component for the income year is a nil amount

section 124ZTA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

3.

A shipowner or charterer:

 has its principal place of business outside Australia; and

 carries passengers, freight or mail shipped in Australia

section 129 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

4.

An insurer who is a foreign resident enters into insurance contracts connected with Australia

sections 142 and 143 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

5.

The Commissioner makes a default or special assessment of taxable income

sections 167 and 168 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

6.

The Commissioner makes a determination of the amount of taxable income to prevent double taxation in certain treaty cases

section 24 of the International Tax Agreements Act 1953

Note: A life insurance company can have a taxable income of the complying superannuation class and/or a taxable income of the ordinary class for the purposes of working out its income tax for an income year: see Subdivision 320D.

425  Special provisions for working out your basic income tax liability

  The following provisions may increase your basic income tax liability beyond the liability worked out simply by applying the income tax rates to your taxable income:

 (a) Subdivision 355G;

 (b) subsection 39235(3).

Note 1: Subdivision 355G increases some entities’ tax liability by requiring them to pay extra income tax on government recoupments relating to R&D activities for which entitlements to tax offsets arise under Division 355.

Note 2: Subsection 39235(3) increases some primary producers’ tax liability by requiring them to pay extra income tax on their averaging components worked out under Subdivision 392C.

Division 5How to work out when to pay your income tax

Table of Subdivisions

 Guide to Division 5

5A How to work out when to pay your income tax

Guide to Division 5

51  What this Division is about

If your assessed income tax liability exceeds the credits available to you under the PAYG system, this Division explains when you must pay the excess to the Commissioner.

If your assessment is amended so that you must pay income tax, or pay more income tax than under the previous assessment, this Division explains:

 (a) when you must pay the additional tax; and

 (b) when any associated interest charges must be paid.

 Note: For provisions about the collection and recovery of income tax and other taxrelated liabilities, see Part 415 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

Subdivision 5AHow to work out when to pay your income tax

Table of sections

55 When income tax is payable

510 When shortfall interest charge is payable

515 General interest charge payable on unpaid income tax or shortfall interest charge

55  When income tax is payable

Scope

 (1) This section tells you when income tax you must pay for a *financial year is due and payable.

Note: The Commissioner may defer the time at which the income tax is due and payable: see section 25510 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

 (2) The income tax is only due and payable if the Commissioner makes an *assessment of your income tax for the year.

 (3) However, if the Commissioner does make an *assessment of your income tax for the year, the tax may be taken to have been due and payable at a time before your assessment was made.

Note: This is to ensure that general interest charge begins to accrue from the same date for all like entities. General interest charge on unpaid income tax is calculated from when the tax is due and payable, not from when the assessment is made: see section 515.

Original assessments—selfassessment entities

 (4) If you are a *selfassessment entity, the income tax is due and payable on the first day of the sixth month after the end of the income year.

Example: If your income year is the same as the financial year, your income tax would be due and payable on 1 December.

Original assessments—other entities

 (5) If you are not a *selfassessment entity, the income tax is due and payable 21 days after the day (the return day) on or before which you are required to lodge your *income tax return with the Commissioner.

Note: For rules about income tax returns and when they are due, see Part IV of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 (6) However, if you lodge your return on or before the return day and the Commissioner gives you a notice of *assessment (other than an amended assessment) after the return day, the income tax is due and payable 21 days after the Commissioner gives you the notice.

Amended assessments

 (7) If the Commissioner amends your *assessment, any extra income tax resulting from the amendment is due and payable 21 days after the day on which the Commissioner gives you notice of the amended assessment.

Note: Shortfall interest charge may be payable, on any amount of extra income tax payable as a result of the amended assessment, for each day in the period that:

(a) starts at the time income tax was due and payable on your original assessment; and

(b) ends the day before the day on which the Commissioner gives you notice of the amended assessment.

510  When shortfall interest charge is payable

  An amount of *shortfall interest charge that you are liable to pay is due and payable 21 days after the day on which the Commissioner gives you notice of the charge.

Note: Shortfall interest charge is imposed if the Commissioner amends an assessment and the amended assessment results in an increase in some tax payable. For provisions about liability for shortfall interest charge, see Division 280 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

515  General interest charge payable on unpaid income tax or shortfall interest charge

  If an amount of income tax or *shortfall interest charge that you are liable to pay remains unpaid after the time by which it is due to be paid, you are liable to pay the *general interest charge on the unpaid amount for each day in the period that:

 (a) starts at the beginning of the day on which the amount was due to be paid; and

 (b) finishes at the end of the last day on which, at the end of the day, any of the following remains unpaid:

 (i) the income tax or shortfall interest charge;

 (ii) general interest charge on any of the income tax or shortfall interest charge.

Note 1: The general interest charge is worked out under Part IIA of the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

Note 2: Shortfall interest charge is worked out under Division 280 in Schedule 1 to that Act.

Division 6Assessable income and exempt income

Guide to Division 6

Table of sections

61 Diagram showing relationships among concepts in this Division

Operative provisions

65 Income according to ordinary concepts (ordinary income)

610 Other assessable income (statutory income)

615 What is not assessable income

620 Exempt income

623 Nonassessable nonexempt income

625 Relationships among various rules about ordinary income

61  Diagram showing relationships among concepts in this Division

 (1) Assessable income consists of ordinary income and statutory income.

 (2) Some ordinary income, and some statutory income, is exempt income.

 (3) Exempt income is not assessable income.

 (4) Some ordinary income, and some statutory income, is neither assessable income nor exempt income.

For the effect of the GST in working out assessable income, see Division 17.

 (5) An amount of ordinary income or statutory income can have only one status (that is, assessable income, exempt income or nonassessable nonexempt income) in the hands of a particular entity.

Operative provisions

65  Income according to ordinary concepts (ordinary income)

 (1) Your assessable income includes income according to ordinary concepts, which is called ordinary income.

Note: Some of the provisions about assessable income listed in section 105 may affect the treatment of ordinary income.

 (2) If you are an Australian resident, your assessable income includes the *ordinary income you *derived directly or indirectly from all sources, whether in or out of Australia, during the income year.

 (3) If you are a foreign resident, your assessable income includes:

 (a) the *ordinary income you *derived directly or indirectly from all *Australian sources during the income year; and

 (b) other *ordinary income that a provision includes in your assessable income for the income year on some basis other than having an *Australian source.

 (4) In working out whether you have derived an amount of *ordinary income, and (if so) when you derived it, you are taken to have received the amount as soon as it is applied or dealt with in any way on your behalf or as you direct.

610  Other assessable income (statutory income)

 (1) Your assessable income also includes some amounts that are not *ordinary income.

Note: These are included by provisions about assessable income.
For a summary list of these provisions, see section 105.

 (2) Amounts that are not *ordinary income, but are included in your assessable income by provisions about assessable income, are called statutory income.

Note 1: Although an amount is statutory income because it has been included in assessable income under a provision of this Act, it may be made exempt income or nonassessable nonexempt income under another provision: see sections 620 and 623.

Note 2: Many provisions in the summary list in section 105 contain rules about ordinary income. These rules do not change its character as ordinary income.

 (3) If an amount would be *statutory income apart from the fact that you have not received it, it becomes statutory income as soon as it is applied or dealt with in any way on your behalf or as you direct.

 (4) If you are an Australian resident, your assessable income includes your *statutory income from all sources, whether in or out of Australia.

 (5) If you are a foreign resident, your assessable income includes:

 (a) your *statutory income from all *Australian sources; and

 (b) other *statutory income that a provision includes in your assessable income on some basis other than having an *Australian source.

615  What is not assessable income

 (1) If an amount is not *ordinary income, and is not *statutory income, it is not assessable income (so you do not have to pay income tax on it).

 (2) If an amount is *exempt income, it is not assessable income.

Note: If an amount is exempt income, there are other consequences besides it being exempt from income tax. For example:

 (3) If an amount is *nonassessable nonexempt income, it is not assessable income.

Note 1: You cannot deduct as a general deduction a loss or outgoing incurred in deriving an amount of nonassessable nonexempt income (see Division 8).

Note 2: Capital gains and losses on assets used to produce some types of nonassessable nonexempt income are disregarded (see section 11812).

620  Exempt income

 (1) An amount of *ordinary income or *statutory income is exempt income if it is made exempt from income tax by a provision of this Act or another *Commonwealth law.

For summary lists of provisions about exempt income,
see sections 115 and 1115.

 (2) *Ordinary income is also exempt income to the extent that this Act excludes it (expressly or by implication) from being assessable income.

 (3) By contrast, an amount of *statutory income is exempt income only if it is made exempt from income tax by a provision of this Act outside this Division or another *Commonwealth law.

 (4) If an amount of *ordinary income or *statutory income is *nonassessable nonexempt income, it is not exempt income.

Note: An amount of nonassessable nonexempt income is not taken into account in working out the amount of a tax loss.

623  Nonassessable nonexempt income

  An amount of *ordinary income or *statutory income is nonassessable nonexempt income if a provision of this Act or of another *Commonwealth law states that it is not assessable income and is not *exempt income.

Note: Capital gains and losses on assets used to produce some types of nonassessable nonexempt income are disregarded (see section 11812).

For a summary list of provisions about nonassessable nonexempt income, see Subdivision 11B.

625  Relationships among various rules about ordinary income

 (1) Sometimes more than one rule includes an amount in your assessable income:

For a summary list of the provisions about assessable income,
see section 105.

However, the amount is included only once in your assessable income for an income year, and is then not included in your assessable income for any other income year.

 (2) Unless the contrary intention appears, the provisions of this Act (outside this Part) prevail over the rules about *ordinary income.

Note: This Act contains some specific provisions about how far the rules about ordinary income prevail over the other provisions of this Act.

Division 8Deductions

Table of sections

81 General deductions

85 Specific deductions

810 No double deductions

81  General deductions

 (1) You can deduct from your assessable income any loss or outgoing to the extent that:

 (a) it is incurred in gaining or producing your assessable income; or

 (b) it is necessarily incurred in carrying on a *business for the purpose of gaining or producing your assessable income.

Note: Division 35 prevents losses from noncommercial business activities that may contribute to a tax loss being offset against other assessable income.

 (2) However, you cannot deduct a loss or outgoing under this section to the extent that:

 (a) it is a loss or outgoing of capital, or of a capital nature; or

 (b) it is a loss or outgoing of a private or domestic nature; or

 (c) it is incurred in relation to gaining or producing your *exempt income or your *nonassessable nonexempt income; or

 (d) a provision of this Act prevents you from deducting it.

For a summary list of provisions about deductions, see section 125.

 (3) A loss or outgoing that you can deduct under this section is called a general deduction.

For the effect of the GST in working out deductions, see Division 27.

Note If you receive an amount as insurance, indemnity or other recoupment of a loss or outgoing that you can deduct under this section, the amount may be included in your assessable income: see Subdivision 20A.

85  Specific deductions

 (1) You can also deduct from your assessable income an amount that a provision of this Act (outside this Division) allows you to deduct.

 (2) Some provisions of this Act prevent you from deducting an amount that you could otherwise deduct, or limit the amount you can deduct.

 (3) An amount that you can deduct under a provision of this Act (outside this Division) is called a specific deduction.

Note: If you receive an amount as insurance, indemnity or other recoupment of a deductible expense, the amount may be included in your assessable income: see Subdivision 20A.

For a summary list of provisions about deductions, see section 125.

810  No double deductions

  If 2 or more provisions of this Act allow you deductions in respect of the same amount (whether for the same income year or different income years), you can deduct only under the provision that is most appropriate.

Part 14Checklists of what is covered by concepts used in the core provisions

Division 9Entities that must pay income tax

Table of sections

91A Effect of this Division

91 List of entities

95 Entities that work out their income tax by reference to something other than taxable income

91A  Effect of this Division

  This Division is a *Guide.

91  List of entities

  Income tax is payable by the entities listed in the table.

Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are identified in normal text. The other provisions, in bold, are provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 

Item

Income tax is payable by this kind of entity:

because of this provision:

1

An individual

section 41

2

A company, that is:

 a body corporate; or

 an unincorporated body (except a partnership)

section 41

3

A company that was a member of a whollyowned group if a former subsidiary in the group is treated as having disposed of leased plant and does not pay all of the income tax resulting from that treatment

section 4525

4

A superannuation provider in relation to a complying superannuation fund

sections 2955 and 295605

5

A superannuation provider in relation to a noncomplying superannuation fund

sections 2955 and 295605

6

A superannuation provider in relation to a complying approved deposit fund

section 2955

7

A superannuation provider in relation to a noncomplying approved deposit fund

section 2955

8

The trustee of a pooled superannuation trust

section 2955

8A

A sovereign entity

section 88055

9

A corporate limited partnership

section 94J

10

A mutual insurance association (as described in section 121)

section 121

11

A trustee (except one covered by another item in this table), but only in respect of some kinds of income of the trust

sections 98, 99, 99A and 102

13

The trustee of a public trading trust

section 102S

95  Entities that work out their income tax by reference to something other than taxable income

 (1) For some entities, some or all of their income tax for the *financial year is worked out as described in the table.

Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are identified in normal text. The other provisions, in bold, are provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 

Item

This kind of entity is liable to pay income tax worked out by reference to:

See:

1

A company that was a member of a whollyowned group is jointly and severally liable to pay an amount of income tax if a former subsidiary in the group is treated as having disposed of leased plant and does not pay all of the income tax resulting from that treatment.

section 4525

2

A superannuation provider in relation to a complying superannuation fund is to be assessed and is liable to pay income tax on noTFN contributions income as well as on taxable income.

sections 2955 and 295605

3

A superannuation provider in relation to a noncomplying superannuation fund is to be assessed and is liable to pay income tax on noTFN contributions income as well as on taxable income.

sections 2955 and 295605

4

An RSA provider is to be assessed and is liable to pay income tax on noTFN contributions income as well as on taxable income.

sections 2955, 295605 and 320155

4A

An entity is liable to pay extra income tax on government recoupments relating to R&D activities for which entitlements to tax offsets arise under Division 355.

Subdivision 355G

 5

An Australian resident individual with:

 eligible foreign remuneration under section 23AF; or

 foreign earnings under section 23AG;

(from working in a foreign country) is liable to pay income tax worked out by reference to his or her assessable income less some of his or her deductions.

section 23AF or 23AG

6

A trustee covered by item 11 in the table in section 91 is liable to pay income tax worked out by reference to the net income of the trust for the income year.

sections 98, 99 and 99A

8

The trustee of a public trading trust is liable to pay income tax worked out by reference to the net income of the trust for the income year.

section 102S

9

An entity that is liable to pay income tax (worked out by reference to taxable income or otherwise) is also liable to pay income tax worked out by reference to diverted income or diverted trust income for the income year.

section 121H

10

An Australian insurer that reinsures overseas can elect to pay, as agent for the reinsurer, income tax worked out by reference to the amount of the reinsurance premiums.

section 148

 (2) For entities covered by an item in the table in subsection (1), the income year is the same as the *financial year, except in these cases:

 (a) for a company, or an entity covered by item 2 or 3 in the table, the income year is the previous financial year;

 (b) if an entity has an accounting period that is not the same as the financial year, each such accounting period or, for a company, each previous accounting period is an income year.

Note 1: The Commissioner can allow an entity to adopt an accounting period ending on a day other than 30 June. See section 18 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

Note 2: An accounting period ends, and a new accounting period starts, when a partnership becomes, or ceases to be, a VCLP, an ESVCLP, an AFOF or a VCMP. See section 18A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

Division 10Particular kinds of assessable income

101  Effect of this Division

  This Division is a *Guide.

105  List of provisions about assessable income

  The provisions set out in the table:

Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are identified in normal text. The other provisions, in bold, are provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 

Accrued leave transfer payments

 

 ....................................

155

alienated personal services income

 

 ....................................

8615

allowances

 

see employment

 

annual leave

 

see leave payments

 

annuities

 

 ....................................

27H

approved deposit fund (ADFs)

 

see superannuation

 

attributable income

 

see controlled foreign corporations

 

avoidance of tax

 

general .................................

177F

diversion of income .........................

121H

see also transfers of income

 

bad debts

 

see recoupment

 

balancing adjustment

 

see capital allowances, investments, R&D, scientific research and tax exempt entities

 

banking

 

offshore banking activities, income from ...........

121EG(1)

offshore banking unit, deemed interest on payments to by owner  


121EK

barter transactions

 

............................................

21, 21A, 152

beneficiaries

 

see trusts

 

benefits

 

business, noncash ...................

21A

consideration, noncash ................

21

meals you provide in an inhouse dining facility  

3270

see also employment and superannuation

 

bonus shares

 

see shares

 

bounties

 

............................................

1510

capital allowances

 

excess of termination value over adjustable value

 

generally.........................

40285

for some cars......................

40370

depreciating asset in lowvalue pool........

40445(2)

expenditure in software development pool..........

40460

recovery of petroleum resource rent tax............

40750(3)

capital gains

 

 ....................................

1025

see also insurance

 

car expenses

 

cents per kilometres reimbursement of ............

1570

carried interests

 

carried interests, not ordinary income.............

11821

CFCs

 

see controlled foreign corporations

 

charters

 

see shipping

 

child

 

nontrust income of, unearned ............

102AE

trust income of, unearned .....................

102AG

collecting societies

 

payments of royalties by copyright collecting societies..

1522

payments of royalties by resale royalty collecting society 


1523

company

 

see controlled foreign corporations, cooperative company, directors, dividends, liquidation, shareholders and shares

 

compensation

 

live stock or trees, recoveries for loss of ...........

385130

profits or income, insurance or indemnity for loss of....

1530

received by lessor for lessee’s noncompliance with lease obligation to repair             


1525

trading stock, insurance or indemnity for loss of ......

70115

see also insurance, live stock, recoupment and scientific research

 

consideration

 

see benefits

 

consolidated groups and MEC groups

 

Assets in relation to Division 230 financial arrangement.


70161(3)

controlled foreign corporations (CFCs)

 

attributable income of .......................

456 to 459A

see also dividends and taxes

 

cooperative company

 

receipts of ...............................

119

credit union

 

see cooperative company

 

currency gains

 

see foreign exchange

 

currency losses

 

see recoupment

 

death

 

see trusts

 

debt/equity swap

 

see shares and units

 

defence forces

 

allowances and benefits for service as a member of ....

152

depreciation

 

see capital allowances

 

directors

 

excessive remuneration or retirement payment from company  


109

distributions

 

see dividends

 

dividends

 

benefit of LIC capital gain through a trust or partnership .

115280

general .................................

44(1)

distribution from a controlled foreign corporation .....

47A(1)

franked dividends, credits on...................

20720(1), 20735(1), 20735(3)

see also liquidation

 

elections

 

local government, reimbursement of expenses of......

2565

see also recoupment

 

electricity connections

 

see recoupment

 

employees

 

see shares

 

employment

 

allowances and benefits in relation to employment or rendering services  


152

employment termination payment ...............

8210
8265
8270

other payments for employment termination .........

83295

return to work payments ......................

153

see accrued leave transfer payments, leave payments, superannuation and sections 8210A and 8210C of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

 

environment

 

see recoupment

 

farm management deposits

 

repayments of ............................

39310

films

 

Australian, proceeds of investment in .............

26AG

financial arrangements

 

gains from...............................

23015(1)

foreign exchange

 

gains ..................................

77515

see also recoupment

 

foreign income tax deduction for franked distributions

 

Additional Tier 1 capital exception...............

1580

forestry agreement

 

amount where section 82KZMG of the 1936 Act applies.

1545

CGT event in relation to forestry interest in agreement..

82KZMGB

forestry managed investment schemes

 

forestry manager’s receipts under scheme...........

1546

CGT event in relation to forestry interest in scheme for initial participant 


39425(2)

CGT event in relation to forestry interest in scheme for subsequent participant             


39430(2)

franked dividends

 

see dividends

 

funeral policy

 

benefit under..............................

1555

general insurance companies and companies that self insure

 

gross premiums............................

32145

reduction in value of outstanding claims liability......

32110 and 32180

reduction in value of unearned premium reserve......

32150

geothermal energy

 

providing geothermal exploration information .......

1540

grapevines

 

see recoupment

 

horticultural plants

 

see recoupment

 

improvements

 

see leases

 

imputation

 

see dividends

 

indemnity

 

see compensation and recoupment

 

insurance

 

bonuses .................................

26AH, 1575

company, demutualisation of ...................

121AT

life insurance, transfer of contributions by superannuation fund or approved deposit fund to              


295260

payments from a nonresident reinsurer in respect
of a loss ..............................


148

premiums in respect of Australian business received by nonresident insurers              


143

premiums paid to a nonresident for reinsurance  

148

premiums paid to mutual insurance association .......

121

premiums payable to a nonresident for insurance of property in Australia              


142(1)

premiums payable to a nonresident for insuring an event that can only happen in Australia              


142(1)

premiums payable to a nonresident under an insurance contract with a resident              


142(2)

rebates and premiums refunded to a superannuation fund trustee  


295320 (table item 4)

see also compensation, life insurance companies and recoupment

 

interest

 

overpaid tax, on ...........................

1535

qualifying securities, on ......................

159GQ, 159GW(1)

see also cooperative companies and leases

 

investments

 

prizes from investmentrelated lotteries ......

26AJ

qualifying securities, payments to partial residents made under  


159GW(2)

qualifying securities, amount assessable to issuer of ....

159GT(1B)

qualifying securities, balancing adjustment on the transfer of  


159GS

securities, variation in terms of .................

159GV(2)

securities lending arrangements .................

26BC

traditional securities, gains on the disposal or redemption of  


26BB

see also films and interest

 

landcare operations

 

see recoupment

 

leased plant ..................................

Division 45

leases

 

amounts received by lessor from lessee for noncompliance with lease obligation to repair             


1525

interest component of payments under nonleveraged finance leases              


159GK

partnership leasing property under nonleveraged finance lease, new partner or contribution of capital since 14 May 1985              



159GO

premiums relating to assignment of a lease granted before 20 September 1985             


26AB

profit on disposal of previously leased motor vehicles ..

Subdivision 20B

leases of luxury cars

 

accrual amounts...........................

24235

adjustment amounts (lessee)

24270

adjustment amounts (lessor)

24265

leave payments

 

accrued leave transfer payment .................

155

unused annual leave payment ........................

8310

unused long service leave payment ...............

8380

see employment

 

life insurance companies

Subdivision 320B

limited recourse debt

 

excessive deduction amount (debtor)

24340

excessive deduction amount (partner)

24365

liquidation

 

distribution to a shareholder in winding up a company..

47(1)

live stock

 

death or destruction of .......................

Subdivision 385E

departing Australia and ......................

385160, 385163

insolvency, and ...........................

385160, 385163

profits on death or disposal of ..................

Subdivision 385E, 385160

see also compensation and trading stock

 

long service leave

 

see leave payments

 

losses

 

see compensation

 

lotteries

 

see investments

 

managed investment trusts

 

gains etc. from carried interests.................

275200(2)

meals

 

see benefits

 

Mining

 

providing mining, quarrying or prospecting information .


1540

minors

 

see child

 

motor vehicles

 

see car expenses and leases

 

mutual insurance

 

see insurance

 

noncash benefits

 

see benefits and employment

 

notional sales and loans

 

adjustment amounts (lessee)

240110(2)

adjustment amounts (lessor)

240105(2)

notional interest............................

24035(1)

profit on actual sale.........................

24035(3)

profit on notional sale........................

24035(2)

offshore banking units

 

see banking

 

partnerships

 

net income of, partner’s interest in ...............

92(1)

uncontrolled partnership income, effect of ..........

94

see also leases

 

petroleum

 

resource rent tax, recovery of ..................

2030(1)

see also capital allowances

 

premiums

 

see insurance, leases and superannuation

 

primary production

 

see recoupment

 

prizes

 

see investments

 

profits

 

crossborder transfer pricing.............

81530

profitmaking undertaking or plan..........

1515

sale of property acquired before 20 September 1985 for profitmaking by sale             


25A

see also avoidance of tax

 

Project pools

 

An amount received for the abandonment, sale or other disposal of a project             


40830, 40832

property

 

see profits and trusts

 

quarrying

 

see mining and recoupment

 

R&D

 

balancing adjustment ........................

40292, 40293, 355315 and 355525

disposal of R&D results ......................

355410

feedstock adjustment ........................

355465

rates

 

see recoupment

 

recoupment

 

insurance or indemnity for deductible losses or
outgoings.............................


Subdivision 20A

other recoupment for certain deductible losses or outgoings 


Subdivision 20A

see also car expenses, compensation, elections and petroleum

 

registered emissions units

 

disposal of...............................

42025

disposal for a noncommercial purpose............

42040

difference between opening and closing value of......

42045

reimbursements

 

see car expenses, dividends, elections, petroleum and recoupment

 

reinsurance

 

see insurance

 

retirement payments

 

see directors, leave payments and shareholders

 

rights to income

 

see transfers of income

 

roads

 

see timber

 

royalties

 

............................................

1520

schemes

 

see avoidance of tax

 

scholarship plan

 

benefit under..............................

1560

scientific research

 

consideration for disposal or destruction of buildings acquired for scientific research              


73A(4)

securities

 

see investments

 

services

 

see cooperative companies, employment, loans and trusts

 

shareholders

 

excessive remuneration or retirement payment from company  


109

loans, payments and credits from company .........

Division 7A of Part III

see also dividends

 

shares

 

acquired in a debt/equity swap, profit on the disposal cancellation or redemption of              


63E(4)

bonus shares, cost of ........................

6BA

buybacks .........................

159GZZZJ to 159GZZZT

employee share schemes .....................

Subdivisions
83AB and 83AC

holding company shares held by a subsidiary, cancellation of  


159GZZZC to 159GZZZI

see also dividends

 

shipping

 

goods shipped in Australia, amounts paid to foreign shipowners and charterers for              


129

subsidies

 

............................................

1510

superannuation

 

associated earnings on nonconcessional contributions  

Subdivision 292B

benefits generally ..........................

Divisions 301 to 306

benefits in breach of legislative requirements ........

Division 304

benefits received from older superannuation funds ....

26AF, 26AFA

complying fund becomes noncomplying, effect of  

295320 (table item 2)

contributions to an approved deposit fund ..........

Subdivisions 295C and 295D

contributions to an RSA ......................

Subdivision 295C

contributions to a superannuation fund ............

Subdivisions
295C and 295D

death benefits .............................

30275
30285
30290
302145

excess concessional contributions ................

29115(a)

first home super saver scheme ..................

31320

foreign superannuation funds and schemes, benefits from  


30570

member benefits ...........................

30120
30125
30135
30140
Subdivision 301C

foreign fund becoming Australian, effect of .........

295320 (table item 3)

noTFN contributions income ............

295605

release authorities, payments from ...............

30420

returned contributions .......................

290100

trustee’s liability to pay tax ....................

2955(2) and (3)

see insurance

 

tax avoidance

 

see avoidance of tax and transfers of income

 

tax exempt entities

 

treatment of income and gains on becoming taxable ....

Schedule 2D

taxes

 

see dividends, foreign investment funds, interest and recoupment

 

termination of employment

 

see directors, eligible termination payments, leave payments and shareholders

 

theft

 

see recoupment

 

trading stock

 

change in interests in ........................

70100

death of trader and .........................

70105

difference between opening and closing value of ......

7035

disposal not at arm’s length....................

7020

disposal of outside ordinary course of business .......

7090, 7095

see also compensation and tax exempt entities

 

transfer pricing

 

arm’s length principle for crossborder conditions between entities              


Subdivision 815B

arm’s length principle for permanent establishments....

Subdivision 815C

transfers of income

 

consideration for transfer of right to income .........

102CA

payments for transfer or disposal of property ........

262

transferee, effect on of transfer of right to income .....

102C

transferor, effect on of transfer of right to income .....

102B

travel expenses

 

see car expenses

 

trusts

 

beneficiary under legal disability or with a vested and indefeasible interest in trust income              


100

deceased estates, income of ....................

101A

discretionary trusts .........................

101

net income of a trust estate, your present entitlement to

97, 101

nonresident beneficiaries, liability to tax of ...

98A

nonresident trust estates to which you have transferred property or services, income of              


102AAZD

property of applied for benefit of beneficiaries .......

99B

trust estate includes income from another trust estate

94(5)

trustees’ liability to tax .......................

98, 99, 99A, 102, 102S

see also avoidance of tax and superannuation

 

unearned income

 

see child

 

units

 

acquired in a debt/equity swap, profit on the disposal, cancellation or redemption of              


63E(4)

water conservation

 

see recoupment

 

windingup

 

see insurance and liquidation

 

wool clips

 

double wool clips, treatment of .................

385135, 385155

work in progress

 

receipt of a work in progress amount .............

1550

Division 11Particular kinds of nonassessable income

Table of Subdivisions

11A Lists of classes of exempt income

11B Particular kinds of nonassessable nonexempt income

Subdivision 11ALists of classes of exempt income

Table of sections

111A Effect of this Subdivision

111 Overview

115 Entities that are exempt, no matter what kind of ordinary or statutory income they have

1115 Ordinary or statutory income which is exempt

111A  Effect of this Subdivision

  This Subdivision is a *Guide.

111  Overview

  Ordinary income or statutory income which is exempt from income tax can be divided into 2 main classes:

 (a) ordinary or statutory income of entities that are exempt, no matter what kind of ordinary or statutory income they have (see table in section 115);

 (b) ordinary or statutory income of a kind that is exempt (see table in section 1115).

115  Entities that are exempt, no matter what kind of ordinary or statutory income they have

  Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are identified in normal text. The other provisions, in bold, are provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

Note: Special rules apply to entities that cease to be exempt. See Schedule 2D to the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 

charity, education or science

 

educational institution, public...................

505

registered charity...........................

505

scientific institution.........................

505

scientific research fund.......................

505

scientific society etc.........................

505

community service

 

community service society etc...................

5010

employees and employers

 

employee association........................

5015

employer association........................

5015

trade union...............................

5015

government

 

constitutionally protected fund..................

5025

local governing body........................

5025

municipal corporation........................

5025

public authority............................

5025

state/territory bodies.........................

24AK to 24AZ

health

 

health benefits organisation....................

5030

hospital.................................

5030

medical benefits organisation...................

5030

HIH rescue package

 

 HIH Claims Support Trust ..................

32210

mining

 

British Phosphate Commissioners Banaba Contingency Fund 


5035

primary or secondary resources, and tourism

 

agricultural society etc. ......................

5040

aviation society etc. .........................

5040

Global Infrastructure Hub Ltd ..................

5040

horticultural society etc. ......................

5040

industrial society etc. ........................

5040

manufacturing society etc. ....................

5040

pastoral society etc. .........................

5040

tourism society etc. .........................

5040

viticultural society etc. .......................

5040

sports, culture or recreation

 

animal racing society etc. .....................

5045

art society etc. ............................

5045

game society etc. ..........................

5045

ICC Business Corporation FZLLC.........

5045

literature society etc. ........................

5045

music society etc. ..........................

5045

sport society etc. ...........................

5045

1115  Ordinary or statutory income which is exempt

  Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are identified in normal text. The other provisions, in bold, are provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 

agricultural industry exit grants

 

tobacco industry exit grants....................

5310

copyright collecting societies

5143

Coronavirus economic response payment

 

certain payments in accordance with the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020             

5325

credit unions

 

interest.................................

23G

defence

 

Defence Force member, allowances...............

515

Defence Force member, compensation payments for loss of deployment allowance for warlike service             


515

Defence Force Ombudsman recommendation, reparation payments and additional payments in relation to             


515

F111 Deseal/Reseal Exgratia Lump Sum Payments 

515

Former Reserve Defence Force member, compensation payments for loss of pay and/or allowances             


515

Reserve Defence Force member, pay and allowances...

515

disasters

 

2018 storms—relief payments..................

51125

dividends or shares

 

pooled development fund company dividend ........

124ZM

pooled development fund company shares, income from sale of  


124ZN

education and training

 

Apprenticeship Wage TopUp payment, recipient of 

5110

bursary, educational allowance etc. ...............

5110 and 5135

Commonwealth Trade Learning Scholarship, recipient of 


5110

CRAFT scheme, employer’s income from..........

5110

early completion bonuses for apprentices...........

5110 and 5142

Endeavour Awards, research fellowship under........

5110

Endeavour Executive Award...................

5110

foreign student, scholarship and bursary to..........

842105

fulltime student, income from a scholarship, bursary, other educational allowance or educational assistance             



5110 and 5135

isolated child, income for the provision of education of..

5110 and 5140

secondary student, income for the provision of education of  


5110 and 5140

Skills for Sustainability for Australian Apprentices payment, recipient of 


5110

Tools for Your Trade payment (under the program known as the Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Program), recipient of             



5110

family assistance

 

additional child care subsidy...................

52150

additional economic support payment 2020 or additional economic support payment 2021             


52150

back to school bonus or single income family bonus....

52150

child care subsidy ..........................

52150

clean energy advance........................

52150

economic security strategy payment to families.......

52150

economic support payment, first or second 2020 payment 


52150

ETR payment.............................

52150

ETR payment, payments under the scheme determined under Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Schoolkids Bonus Budget Measures) Act 2012             




52162

families, payments to, under the scheme determined under Schedule 4 to the Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Economic Security Strategy) Act 2008             

52160

family tax benefit ..........................

52150

Household Stimulus Package Act (No. 2) 2009, payments under scheme determined under Schedule 4 to the             

52165

single income family supplement................

52150

stillborn baby payment.......................

52150

financial arrangements

 

gains related to exempt income..................

23030

financial transactions

 

pooled development fund company dividends........

124ZM

pooled development fund company shares, income from sale of  


124ZN

foreign aspects of income taxation

 

approved overseas project, income from ...........

23AF

AustralianAmerican Education Foundation, grant from 


5110

Commonwealth of Nations country officer, official salary and foreign income              


768100

consul and official staff member, official salary and foreign income  


768100

Defence Force member, foreign resident, pay and
allowances of ..........................


842105

Defence Force member, pay and allowances from being on eligible duty  


23AD

defence of Australia, overseas person’s income from assisting in Australia’s defence             


842105

diplomat and official staff member, official salary and foreign income  


768100

educational, scientific, religious or philanthropic society, income of a visiting representative of              


842105

expert, foreign resident, remuneration of ...........

842105

foreign society or association representative, income of .


842105

forex realisation gains, certain..................

77520

government representative and members of the entourage, foreign resident, income of              


842105

OBU investment trusts for overseas charitable institutions 


121EL(2)

OBU offshore investment trusts, income to which subsection 121D(6) applies              


121EL

overseas charitable institutions, income from OBUs....

121ELA(1)

overseas employment income, resident, income of .....

23AG

persecution victim, payments to .................

768105

press representative, foreign, income of ............

842105

resistance fighter and victim of wartime persecution, payments to  


768105

United Nations, income from service with ..........

23AB

United States projects, income from approved overseas projects  


23AA

health

 

Continence Aids Payment Scheme, payments under ....

52175

interest

 

judgement debt, personal injury.................

5157

unclaimed money and property..................

51120

life insurance companies

Subdivision 320B

National Disability Insurance Scheme

 

NDIS amounts............................

52180

noncash benefits

 

business benefit............................

23L(2)

exempt fringe benefit........................

23L(1A)

prizes

 

Prime Minister’s Literary Awards ...............

5160

Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History ........

5160

Prime Minister’s Prize for Science ...............

5160

resale royalty collecting societies

5145

shipping

 

income from shipping activities.................

51100

social security or like payments

 

ABSTUDY scheme, payment under..............

Subdivision 52E

additional economic support payment 2020 or additional economic support payment 2021 under the Social Security Act 1991             



5210

additional economic support payment 2020 or additional economic support payment 2021 under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986             



5265

Australian Victim of Terrorism Overseas Payment.....

5210

Better Start for Children with Disability initiative, Outer Regional and Remote payment under              


52172

carer adjustment payment.....................

5310

carers, 2005 oneoff payment to, (carer payment related), 2005 oneoff payment to carers (carer service pension related) or 2005 oneoff payment to carers (carer allowance related)




5210

carers, 2006 oneoff payment to, (carer payment related), 2006 oneoff payment to carers (wife pension related), 2006 oneoff payment to carers (partner service pension related), 2006 oneoff payment to carers (carer service pension related) or 2006 oneoff payment to carers (carer allowance related)              







5210

carers, 2007 oneoff payment to, (carer payment related), 2007 oneoff payment to carers (wife pension related), 2007 oneoff payment to carers (partner service pension related), 2007 oneoff payment to carers (carer service pension related) or 2007 oneoff payment to carers (carer allowance related).             







5210

carers, 2008 oneoff payment to, (carer payment related), 2008 oneoff payment to carers (wife pension related), 2008 oneoff payment to carers (partner service pension related), 2008 oneoff payment to carers (carer service pension related) or 2008 oneoff payment to carers (carer allowance related)







5210

carers, oneoff payment to, (carer allowance related) or oneoff payment to carers (carer payment related)              


5210

carers, payments to, under the scheme determined under Schedule 3 to the Family Assistance Legislation Amendment (More Help for Families—Oneoff Payments) Act 2004             




5210

carer supplement............................

5210

child disability assistance.....................

Subdivision 52A

clean energy payment under the Social Security Act 1991 


5210

clean energy payment under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986 


5265

clean energy payment under the scheme prepared under Part VII of the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986             



5265

clean energy payment under the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004             


52114

clean energy payment under the scheme determined under section 258 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004             



52114

Commonwealth education or training payment.......

Subdivision 52F

DFISA bonus and DFISA bonus bereavement payment..

5265

disability services payment ....................

5310

economic security strategy payment under the Social Security Act 1991 


5210

economic support payment, first or second 2020 payment under the Social Security Act 1991             


5210

economic support payment, first or second 2020 payment under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986             


5265

education entry payment supplement under the Social Security Act 1991 


5210

energy assistance payment, oneoff payment under the Social Security Act 1991             


5210

energy assistance payment, oneoff payment under the Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986             


5265

ETR payment, payments under the scheme determined under Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment (Schoolkids Bonus Budget Measures) Act 2012             




52162

farm household allowance under the Farm Household Support Act 2014 


Subdivision 52A

Helping Children with Autism package, Outer Regional and Remote payment under              


52170

Household Stimulus Package Act (No. 2) 2009, payments under the scheme determined under Schedule 4 to the             



52165

pension bonus and pension bonus bereavement payment.


5210 and 5265

persecution victim, payments to .................

768105

pharmaceutical supplement for Australian participants in British nuclear tests or in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force             



Subdivision 52CB

pharmaceutical supplement for Australian surgicalmedical team members             


Subdivision 52CC

resistance fighter and victim of wartime persecution, payments to  


768105

Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Economic Security Strategy) Act 2008, payments under the scheme determined under Schedule 4 to the             




52160

Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Oneoff Payments and Other 2007 Budget Measures) Act 2007, payments under a scheme determined under item 1 of Schedule 2 to the             





5210

Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Oneoff Payments and Other 2007 Budget Measures) Act 2007, payments under the scheme determined under Schedule 4 to the             




5210

Social Security and Veterans’ Entitlements Legislation Amendment (Oneoff Payments and Other Budget Measures) Act 2008, payments under a scheme determined under item 1 of Schedule 2 to the             




5210

Social Security and Veterans’ Entitlements Legislation Amendment (Oneoff Payments and Other Budget Measures) Act 2008, payments under the scheme determined under Schedule 4 to the             




5210

Social Security and Veterans’ Entitlements Legislation Amendment (Oneoff Payments to Increase Assistance for Older Australians and Carers and Other Measures) Act 2006, payments under the scheme determined under item 1 of Schedule 2 to the             






5210

Social Security and Veterans’ Entitlements Legislation Amendment (Oneoff Payments to Increase Assistance for Older Australians and Carers and Other Measures) Act 2006, payments under the scheme determined under Schedule 4 to the             





5210

Social Security Legislation Amendment (Oneoff Payments for Carers) Act 2005, payments under the scheme determined under Schedule 2 to the             



5210

social security payments ......................

Subdivision 52A

training and learning bonus under the Social Security Act 1991 


5210

travelling expenses for Australian participants in British nuclear tests or in the British Commonwealth Occupation Force             



Subdivision 52CB

travelling expenses for Australian surgicalmedical team members             


Subdivision 52CC

veteran, Australian and United Kingdom, payment to ...

5320

veteran, payment to .........................

Subdivisions 52B and 52C

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986, lump sum payment under section 198N of the             


5265

wounds and disability pension ..................

5310

see also welfare

 

structured settlements and structured orders

 

annuities and lump sums......................

Subdivisions 54B, 54C and 54D

student

 

see education and training

 

superannuation and related business

 

approved deposit fund, continuously complying fixed interest, income from 25 May 1988 deposits              

295390 of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

approved deposit fund, income from a grant of financial assistance under Part 23 of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993              


295405 (table item 1)

approved deposit fund, nonreversionary bonuses on policies of life assurance              

295335 (table item 1)

benefits from noncomplying funds ........

3055

pooled superannuation trust, income from constitutionally protected funds              

295335 (table item 2)

pooled superannuation trust, income from current pension liabilities of complying superannuation funds              



295400

pooled superannuation trust, nonreversionary bonuses on policies of life assurance              

295335 (table item 1)

superannuation fund, income from other assets used to meet current pension liabilities              


295390

superannuation fund, income from segregated current pensions assets  


295385

superannuation fund, nonreversionary bonuses on policies of life assurance              

295335 (table item 1)

superannuation fund, regulated, income from a grant of financial assistance under Part 23 of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993              


295405 (table item 1)

United Nations

 

United Nations Service, income from .............

23AB

venture capital

 

eligible venture capital investments, gain or profit from realisation of 

5154

eligible venture capital investments by ESVCLPs, income derived from 

5152

venture capital equity, gain or profit from realisation of..

5155

welfare

 

Disaster recovery payments to special category visa (subclass 444) holders             


5130

maintenance payment........................

5130 and 5150

thalidomide payment—payment by the Thalidomide Australia Fixed Trust             


5130

see also social security or like payments

 

Note: The following provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 give rise to notional exempt income and not exempt income. For this reason the provisions do not appear in the lists of kinds of exempt income.

 The provisions are: paragraphs 384(1)(b) and 385(1)(b), subsection 402(2) and section 403.

Subdivision 11BParticular kinds of nonassessable nonexempt income

Table of sections

1150 Effect of this Subdivision

1155 List of nonassessable nonexempt income provisions

1150  Effect of this Subdivision

  This Subdivision is a *Guide.

1155  List of nonassessable nonexempt income provisions

  The provisions set out in the list make amounts nonassessable nonexempt income.

  Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are identified in normal text. The other provisions, in bold, are provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 

alienated personal services income

 

associate, nondeductible payment or obligation to 

8520(3)

entitlements to a share of net income that is personal services income already assessable to an
individual.............................



8635(2)

payments by personal services entity or associate of personal services income already assessable to an individual             



8635(1)

personal services entity, amounts of personal services income assessable to an individual             


8630

bonds

 

see securities

 

capital gains tax

 

small business retirement exemption, payments made directly or indirectly to CGT concession stakeholder so company or trust complies with section 152325             




152310

cash flow boost

 

payments in accordance with the Boosting Cash Flow for Employers (Coronavirus Economic Response Package) Act 2020             



5990

Coronavirus economic response payment

 

certain payments in accordance with the Coronavirus Economic Response Package (Payments and Benefits) Act 2020             

5995

demutualisation of friendly society health or life insurers

 

amounts related to issue, or transfer from lost policy holders trust, of demutualisation assets             


316255

payments received directly, or from lost policy holders trust, in exchange for cancellation or variation of interests under the demutualisation             



316255

demutualisation of private health insurers

 

market value of shares and rights at time of issue......

315310

payments received in exchange for cancellation or variation of interests under the demutualisation             


315310

disasters

 

201920 bushfires—payments for volunteer work with fire services             


5955

201920 bushfires—disaster relief payments and noncash benefits             


5960

2019 floods—recovery grants...................

5985

2019 floods—onfarm grant program.......

5986

dividends

 

demerger dividends.........................

44(4)

later dividend set off against amount taken to be dividend 

109ZC(3), 109ZCA(4)

employment

 

early retirement scheme payment, tax free amount of ...

83170

employment termination payment ...............

8210
8265
8270

foreign termination payment ...................

83235
83240

genuine redundancy payment, tax free amount of .....

83170

unused long service leave payment, pre16/8/78
period ...............................


8380

see superannuation and sections 8210A and 8210C of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

 

environment

 

water infrastructure improvement payments.........

5965

farmin farmout arrangements

 

rewards for providing exploration benefits..........

401135

financial arrangements

 

gains related to nonassessable nonexempt income 

23030

firearms surrender arrangements

 

compensation under.........................

5910

foreign aspects of income taxation

 

attributed controlled foreign company income, amounts paid out of  


23AI

attributed foreign investment fund income, amounts paid out of  


23AK

certain forex realisation gains...................

77525

branch profits of Australian companies............

23AH

distributions of conduit foreign income............

80220

income derived by foreign residents in exclusive economic zone or on or above continental shelf             

768110

foreign equity distributions on participation interests...

7685

income derived by temporary residents.............

768910

interest paid by temporary residents...............

768980

managed investment trust withholding tax, amount subject to  


840815

Seasonal Labour Mobility Program withholding tax, amount subject to  


840915

superannuation fund, foreign, interest and dividend income of  


128B(3)(jb)

withholding tax, dividend royalty or interest subject to..

128D

GST

 

GST payable on a taxable supply................

175(a)

increasing adjustments.......................

175(b) and (c)

investment manager regime

 

IMR concessions...........................

842215

life insurance companies..........................

Subdivision 320B

mining

 

withholding tax, payments to Indigenous persons and distributing bodies subject to             


5915

mutual receipts

 

amounts that would be mutual receipts but for prohibition on distributions to members or issue of MCIs             



5935

National Rental Affordability Scheme

 

payments made, and noncash benefits provided, by a State or Territory governmental body in relation to participation in the National Rental Affordability Scheme..................................................................             




38035

native title benefits

 

native title benefits..........................

5950

noncash benefits

 

fringe benefits.............................

23L(1)

notional sale and loan

 

arrangement payments a notional seller receives or is entitled to receive 


24040

luxury car leases, lease payments that the lessor receives or is entitled to receive             


24240

deemed loan treatment for financial benefits provided for tax preferred use of asset             


250160

offshore banking units

 

assessable OB income other than eligible fraction.....

121EG

related entities

 

amounts from, where deduction reduced for.........

2635(4)

repayable amounts

 

previously assessable amounts..................

5930

rights to acquire shares or units

 

market value of at time of issue.................

5940

small business assets

 

income arising from CGT event, company or trust owned asset continuously for 15 years             


152110(2)

sovereign entities ..............................

Subdivision 880C

superannuation

 

benefits generally ..........................

Divisions 301 to 306

commutation of income stream, under 25 years .......

3035

death benefits .............................

30260
30265
30270
302140

departing Australia superannuation benefits .........

301175

foreign superannuation funds, lump sum benefits .....

30560
30565
30570

KiwiSaver schemes, contributions to complying superannuation funds from              


31210

KiwiSaver schemes, superannuation benefits paid from complying superannuation funds to              


31215

member benefits ...........................

30110
30115
30130
301225

release authorities, payments from ...............

30315

30320

rollover superannuation benefits ..........

3065

superannuation lump sum for recipient having terminal medical condition              


30310

unclaimed money payment ....................

30620

tax loss transfers

 

consideration received by loss company from income company, generally 


17025(1)

consideration received by loss company from income company, net capital loss             


170125(1)

consideration received for transfer of tax losses relating to transitioned petroleum activities              


41770

temporary residents

 

see foreign aspects of income taxation

 

trading stock

 

disposal outside ordinary course of business, amounts received upon 


7090(2)

transfer of entitlements to deductions

 

consideration received for transfer of entitlements to deductions relating to transitioned petroleum activities              



41770

trusts

 

attributable income, amounts representing..........

99B(2A)

family trust distribution tax, amounts subject to.......

271105(3) in Schedule 2F

windfall amounts

 

business franchise fees, refund of when invalid.......

5920

State tax on Commonwealth place, refund of when invalid 


5925

withholding taxes

 

see foreign aspects of income taxation and mining

 

Division 12Particular kinds of deductions

121  Effect of this Division

  This Division is a *Guide.

125  List of provisions about deductions

  The provisions set out in the table contain rules about specific types of deduction.

  Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are identified in normal text. The other provisions, in bold, are provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 

accrued leave transfer payments

 

 ....................................

2610

advance expenditure

 

generally ................................

82KZL to 82KZO

avoidance arrangements ......................

82KJ

when deductible ...........................

82KZM to 82KZN

bad debts

 

deduction reduced because of forgiveness of debt if debtor and creditor are companies under common ownership and agree on the reduction             



24590

general .................................

2535, 63F

companies ...............................

Subdivisions 165C, 166C and 175C

debt/equity swaps ..........................

63E, 63F, 709220

deduction of a debt that used to be owed to a member of a consolidated group or MEC group by an entity that used to be a member of the group              


Subdivisions
709D and 719I

money lenders, listed country branches, no deduction
for  


63D

see also losses

 

balancing adjustment

 

see buildings, capital allowances, industrial property, R&D and tax exempt entities

 

banks

 

foreign banks, Australian branches of .............

160ZZVA to 160ZZZJ

boats

 

deferral of deductions .......................

2647

borrowing expenses

 

 ....................................

2525

bribes to foreign public officials ....................

2652

bribes to public officials ..........................

2653

buildings

 

income producing buildings, capital allowances ......

Division 43

see also heritage conservation work

 

capital allowances

 

generally ................................

Division 40

balancing adjustments .......................

40285(2), 40370

business related costs ........................

40880

electricity and telephone lines ..................

40645

environmental protection activities ...............

40755

exploration or prospecting ....................

4080(1), 40730

inhouse software ....................

40335, 40455

intellectual property ........................

Subdivisions 40B and 40I

IRUs ..................................

Subdivision 40B

landcare operations .........................

40630

lowvalue and software development pools ...

Subdivision 40E

mining and quarrying ........................

Subdivision 40H and Subdivision 40I

new business investment, additional deduction .......

Division 41

Petroleum Resource Rent Tax ..................

40750

project pools .............................

40830, 40832

reducing deductions ........................

4025, 4027, 40290 and 40291

spectrum licences ..........................

Subdivision 40B

tax preferred use of asset......................

Division 250

telecommunications site access rights .............

Subdivision 40B

trees in carbon sink forests ....................

Subdivision 40J

water facilities, horticultural plants, fodder storage assets and fencing assets              


Subdivision 40F

capital gains

 

no deduction for an amount that would otherwise be deductible only because a net capital gain is included in assessable income             



51AAA

small business retirement exemption, no deduction for payments made directly or indirectly to CGT concession stakeholder so company or trust complies with section 152325             




152310

see also foreign residents

 

capital loss

 

net capital loss, no deduction for ................

10210

net capital loss, transfer within company group .......

Subdivision 170B

car disposal

 

see capital allowances

 

car expenses

 

generally ................................

Division 28

“cents per kilometre” method ..................

Subdivision 28C

“log book” method .........................

Subdivisions 28F and 28G

substantiation of car expenses ..................

Division 900

see also transport expenses

 

car expenses of employee

 

employee’s car expenses where car provided by employer can be used for private purposes, no deduction for .             



51AF

carried interests

 

carried interests, no deduction for................

11821

car parking

 

employee’s car parking expenses, no deduction for ....

51AGA

children’s income

 

generally ................................

102AA to 102AH

taxable income of a child, deductions taken into consideration in calculating              


102AD

club fees

 

club fees, no deduction for ....................

2645

see also subscriptions to associations

 

Commonwealth places windfall tax

 

 ....................................

2617

companies, cooperative and mutual

 

generally ................................

117 to 121

distributions of assessable income ...............

120

companies, private

 

excessive payments to shareholders directors and associates, reduced deduction              


109

conservation covenants

 

 ....................................

Division 31

consolidated groups and MEC groups

 

assets in relation to Division 230 financial
arrangement............................


70161(4)

controlled foreign companies

 

generally ................................

316 to 468

bad debts ................................

399A

decline in value of depreciating assets .............

398

finance share dividends ......................

394

taxes paid ...............................

393

convertible notes

 

see interest

 

copyrights

 

expenditure in obtaining registration ..............

Subdivisions 40B and 40I

cross staple arrangements

 

rent from land investment.....................

25115, 25120

currency exchange gains and losses

 

see foreign exchange

 

death of timber owner

 

see timber

 

debt interests

 

certain returns in respect of debt interests...........

2585

depreciation

 

see capital allowances

 

designs

 

expenditure in obtaining or extending registration .....

Subdivisions 40B and 40I

disposal of depreciating assets

 

see capital allowances

 

dividends

 

dividends including LIC capital gain component ......

115280

franking credits, companies and foreign residents......

20795(2), 20795(3), 220405(3)

franking credits, pooled development funds (PDFs) ....

124ZM

nonshare equity interests, no deduction for return in respect of  


2626

unfranked nonportfolio dividends.........

46FA

education expenses

 

Higher Education Contribution Scheme, no deduction unless provided as fringe benefit              


2620

limit on deduction ..........................

82A

see also overseas debtors repayment levy

 

see also student startup loans

 

see also VET student loans

 

election expenses

 

Federal and State Parliament election expenses .......

2560, 2570

local government election expenses, limited deduction
for 


2565, 2570

electricity connections

 

see capital allowances

 

embezzlement

 

see theft

 

employees

 

pensions, gratuities or retiring allowances for exemployees  


2550

Seasonal Labour Mobility Program, delayed deduction for salary, wages etc. paid to employees under program until Seasonal Labour Mobility Program withholding tax payable has been paid              




2625A

see also shares

 

entertainment

 

expenditure, no deduction for some ..............

Division 32

meal entertainment, calculation of deductible amount ...

51AEA to 51AEC

environment

 

see capital allowances

 

excess nonconcessional contributions tax

 

no deduction .............................

2675

exploration and prospecting

 

see capital allowances

 

family

 

no deduction for maintaining spouse or child.........

2640

farm management deposits

 

see primary production

 

film licensed investment companies (FLICs)

 

see shares

 

financial arrangements

 

losses from...............................

23015(2) and (3)

see also borrowing expenses, interest, leases and securities

 

foreign exchange

 

losses ..................................

77530

foreign financial entities’ Australian permanent establishments

 

generally................................

Part IIIB

thin capitalisation..........................

Subdivision 820FB

transfer of losses...........................

Subdivisions 170A and 170B

forestry managed investment schemes

 

payments under scheme......................

39410(1)

franchise fees windfall tax

 

 ....................................

2615

freight

 

freight for shipped goods .....................

135A

fringe benefits

 

contributions for private component, no deduction for ..

51AJ

employee’s car expenses where car provided by employer can be used for private purposes, no deduction for              


51AF

employee’s car parking expenses, no deduction for ....

51AGA

expense payment fringe benefits, reduced deduction ...

51AH

general insurance companies and companies that self insure

 

claims paid...............................

32125 and 32195

increase in value of outstanding claims liability.......

32115 and 32185

increase in value of unearned premium reserve.......

32155

gifts

 

general .................................

Division 30

limit on deduction ..........................

2655

see also tax avoidance schemes

 

horticultural plants

 

see capital allowances

 

higher education assistance

2620

hybrid mismatch rules

 

disallowing of deductions.....................

Division 832

illegal activities

2654

income equalisation deposits

 

see primary production

 

industrial property

 

see intellectual property and R&D

 

infrastructure

 

see tax losses

 

insurance with nonresidents

 

generally ................................

141 to 148

insurance premiums, no deduction unless arrangement to pay tax  


145

reinsurance, no deduction for resident carrying on insurance business in Australia for reinsurance premiums paid to a nonresident              



148

intellectual property

 

see capital allowances

 

interest

 

convertible notes, interest on, generally ............

82L to 82T

foreign residents, debt creation involving, generally ....

159GZY to 159GZZF

foreign residents, delayed deduction for interest paid to until withholding tax payable has been paid              


2625

life assurance premiums, interest etc. on loans to finance, no deduction for              


2685

superannuation contributions, interest etc. on loans to finance, no deduction for              


2680

underpayment or late payment of tax, interest for .....

255

international agreements

 

see transfer pricing

 

international profit shifting

 

see transfer pricing

 

investment company

 

see shares

 

IRUs

 

see capital allowances

 

land

 

land degradation, see primary production

 

vacant land, limit on deduction..................

26102

lease document expenses

 

 ....................................

2520

lease, authority, licence, permit or quota

 

expenditure to terminate......................

25110

leases

 

finance leases and arrangements, use of property if enduser an exempt public body or use outside Australia to produce exempt income              



159GE to 159GO

leases of assets being put to tax preferred use........

Division 250

leveraged arrangements, property used:

 

  other than to produce assessable income; or

 

  by a nonresident outside Australia; or

 

  by a previous owner

 

 ....................................

51AD

payment for failure to comply with lease obligation to repair premises 


2515

leases of luxury cars

 

accrual amounts...........................

24235

adjustment amounts (lessee)

24270

adjustment amounts (lessor)

24265

lease payments not deductible..................

24255

payments to acquire car not deductible.............

24285

leave payments

 

accrued leave transfer payments .................

2610

no deduction for leave payments until paid ..........

2610

leisure facilities

 

no deduction for ...........................

2650

life insurance companies..........................

Subdivision 320C

limited recourse debt

 

later payments.............................

24345

later payments (replacement debt)

24350

loans

 

see borrowing expenses, interest and securities

 

losses

 

foreign exchange ..........................

77530

profitmaking undertaking or scheme .......

2540

property sale .............................

2540

traditional securities, loss on disposal or redemption
of  


70B

see also tax losses

 

managed investment trusts

 

losses from carried interests....................

275200(4)

management and investment company shares

 

see shares

 

membership of associations

 

see subscriptions to associations

 

mining

 

see capital allowances

 

misappropriation

 

by employee or agent........................

2547

mortgage

 

expenses of discharging a mortgage ..............

2530

motor vehicles

 

see car expenses and leases

 

National Disability Insurance Scheme

 

National Disability Insurance Scheme expenditure.....

2697

noncash transactions

 

noncash business benefits ..............

51AK

noncash consideration, money value deemed to have been paid or given              


21

noncommercial business activities

 

deferral of noncommercial losses..........

Division 35

nonresident trust estates

 

generally ................................

102AAA to 102AAZG

modified application of depreciation provisions .......

102AAY

modified application of trading stock provisions ......

102AAZ

no deductions allowable under Division 36 .........

102AAZC

notional sales and loans

 

adjustment amounts (lessee)

240110(1)

adjustment amounts (lessor)

240105(3)

arrangement payments, no deduction for...........

24055

notional interest............................

24050, 250155

deemed loan treatment for financial benefits provided for tax preferred use of asset             


Subdivision 250C

payments to acquire property, no deduction for.......

24085

offshore banking units

 

generally ................................

121A to 121EL

deductions for ............................

121EG

overseas debtors repayment levy

 

limit on deduction..........................

82A

payment made to reduce a liability to overseas debtors repayment levy under the Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Act 2015, no deduction unless provided as fringe benefit             

2620

partnerships

 

foreign hybrid loss exposure adjustment.........................................

83050

losses, partner’s share of partnership loss ...........

90, 92

patents

 

expenditure relating to grant of patents, etc. .........

Subdivisions 40B and 40I

penalties

 

no deduction for penalties .....................

265

personal services income

 

alienated personal services income...............

Subdivision 86B

general.................................

Division 85

political contributions and gifts

 

denial of certain deductions....................

2622

deductions for individuals.....................

Subdivision 30DA

pooled development funds (PDFs)

 

 ....................................

124ZM to 124ZZD

prepaid expenditure

 

see advance expenditure

 

primary production

 

farm management deposits....................

Division 393

see also capital allowances and timber

 

property

 

arrangements relating to assets being put to tax preferred use 


Division 250

arrangements relating to use of property if enduser an exempt public body or use outside Australia to produce exempt income              



159GE to 159GO

leveraged arrangements, property used:

 

  other than to produce assessable income; or

 

  by a nonresident outside Australia; or

 

  by a previous owner

 

 ....................................

51AD

sale of property, profit or loss ..................

82(2)

see also capital allowances and losses

 

public trading trusts

 

generally ................................

102M to 102T

qualifying securities

 

see securities

 

R&D

Division 355

rates and land taxes

 

premises used to produce mutual receipts...........

2575

rebatable benefits

 

no deduction for ...........................

2619

registered emissions units

 

expenditure incurred in becoming the holder of.......

42015

expenditure incurred in ceasing to hold............

42042

excess of opening over closing value of..................

42045

reimbursements

 

expense payment fringe benefits, reduced deduction ...

51AH

reinsurance

 

see insurance with nonresidents

 

related entities (including relatives)

 

reduction of deduction for payment or liability to......

2635,
65(1B) and (1C)

repairs

 

general .................................

2510

repair covenants, payment for noncompliance with covenant to repair under lease              


2515

roads

 

see timber

 

royalties

 

royalty, no deduction for royalty paid to a foreign resident until the withholding tax payable has been paid             



2625

scientific research

 

see R&D

 

securities

 

qualifying securities ........................

159GP to 159GZ

substituted securities ........................

23K

traditional securities, loss on disposal or redemption
of  


70B

shares

 

buybacks .........................

159GZZZJ to 159GZZZT

cancellation of subsidiary’s shares in holding company .

159GZZZC to 159GZZZI

employee share schemes, deduction for provider of ESS interests  


Subdivision 83AD

see also dividends and securities

 

Software

 

see capital allowances

 

spectrum licences

 

see capital allowances

 

State or Territory bodies (STBs)

 

body ceasing to be STB, some deductions not allowed ..

24AW to 24AYA

student startup loans

 

limit on deduction ..........................

82A

payment made to reduce a debt to the Commonwealth under Chapter 2AA of the Social Security Act 1991 (student startup loans), no deduction unless provided as fringe benefit              

2620

payment made to reduce a debt to the Commonwealth under Part 2 of the Student Assistance Act 1973 (ABSTUDY student startup loans), no deduction unless provided as fringe benefit             

2620

subscriptions to associations

 

 ....................................

2555

substantiation

 

work, travel and car expenses ..................

Division 900

superannuation

 

see insurance and annuity business and interest

 

superannuation and related business

 

generally ................................

Part 330

asset disposals ............................

29585

death or disability benefits, deduction for future service element  


295470

death or disability cover, premiums for ............

295465

financial assistance levy ......................

295490(1) (table item 3)

superannuation contributions surcharge

 

no deduction .............................

2660

superannuation—deductibility of contributions

 

generally ......................................

Division 290

contributions for employees etc. .................

Subdivision 290B

contributions to noncomplying funds .......

sections 29010 and 29075

first home super saver scheme recontribution .

section 290168

limit on deduction ..........................

2655

no deduction under any other provision of the Act .....

section 29010

personal contributions .......................

Subdivision 290C

superannuation guarantee charge

 

no deduction for ...........................

2695

late contribution offset, no deduction for ...........

29095

superannuation supervisory levy

 

late lodgment amount, no deduction for............

2690

tax agent’s fees

 

see tax related expenses

 

tax avoidance schemes

 

companies, use of tax losses or deductions to avoid tax .

Division 175

diverted assessable income ....................

121F to 121L

dividend stripping..........................

177E

gifts ...................................

78A

imputation, manipulation of....................

207150(2), 207150(3)

prepaid outgoings to avoid tax ..................

82KJ

recouped expenditure ........................

82KH to 82KL

tax avoidance scheme, no deduction allowable where deduction the result of              


177A to 177G

trading stock .............................

7020, 52A

tax exempt entities

 

treatment of losses and outgoings on becoming
taxable ...............................


Schedule 2D

tax losses

 

bad debts, companies ........................

165120

change of ownership or control of a company

 

generally .........................

Division 165

for earlier income years ...............

Subdivision 165A

for income year of the change ...........

Subdivision 165B

designated infrastructure project entities ...........

Division 415

earlier income years ........................

Division 36

life insurance companies......................

Subdivision 320D

pooled development funds ....................

Subdivision 195A

transfer between companies in same whollyowned
group ................................


Subdivision 170A

tax preferred asset financing

 

generally................................

Division 250

denial of capital allowance deductions in relation to asset being put to tax preferred use             


250145

reduction in capital allowance deductions in relation to asset being put to tax preferred use             


250150

tax related expenses

 

 ....................................

255

telecommunications site access rights

 

see capital allowances

 

telephone lines

 

see primary production

 

theft

 

by employee or agent........................

2545

thin capitalisation

 

disallowing of deductions.....................

Division 820

timber

 

death of owner of land carrying trees, deduction of the part of land cost attributable to trees             


70120

disposal of land carrying trees, deduction of the part of land cost attributable to trees             


70120

felling trees, deduction of cost of land attributable to trees felled or of cost of right to fell trees             


70120

see also capital allowances

 

trade support loan

 

limit on deduction ..........................

82A

payment made to reduce a debt to the Commonwealth under the Trade Support Loans Act 2014, no deduction unless provided as fringe benefit              

 

 

 

2620

trading ships

 

see capital allowances

 

trading stock

 

Commissioner may determine whether consideration paid for chose in action is reasonable              


52A

excess of opening stock over closing value ..........

7035(3)

expenditure deemed not to be of a capital nature ......

7025

prepayments, when stock becomes trading stock on
hand ................................


7015

see also tax avoidance schemes and timber

 

traditional securities

 

see securities

 

training guarantee

 

training guarantee charge, no deduction for .........

51(7)

transfer pricing

 

arm’s length principle for crossborder conditions between entities              


Subdivision 815B

arm’s length principle for permanent establishments....

Subdivision 815C

transport expenses

 

incurred in travel between workplaces .............

25100

travel expenses

 

accompanying relatives, no deduction for some travel expenses  


2630

travel related to the use of residential premises as residential accommodation              


2631

see also substantiation

 

trees in carbon sink forests

 

see capital allowances

 

trusts

 

trust income, deductions considered in calculating .....

95 to 102

see also foreign residents, nonresident trust estates and public trading trusts

 

uniforms

 

noncompulsory uniforms ..............

Division 34

uranium mining

 

see mining

 

VET student loans

 

limit on deduction ..........................

82A

payment made to reduce a debt to the Commonwealth under Part 3A of the VET Student Loans Act 2016 (VETSL debts), no deduction unless provided as fringe benefit              

 

 

 

2620

water facilities

 

improvements.............................

26100

see also capital allowances

 

work expenses

 

see substantiation

 

work in progress

 

payment of a work in progress amount ............

2595

Division 13Tax offsets

131A  Effect of this Division

  This Division is a *Guide.

131  List of tax offsets

  The provisions set out in the list allow you a tax offset.

  Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are identified in normal text. The other provisions, in bold, are provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 

Aboriginal study assistance

 

see social security and other benefit payments

 

annual leave

 

see leave payments

 

annuity

 

see superannuation

 

approved deposit funds (ADFs)

 

see dividends

 

attribution managed investment trusts

 

nonresident beneficiary ................

276110

averaging

 

see primary production

 

bonuses

 

see life assurance

 

child

 

increased tax payable under Part III Division 6AA, unreasonable  


102AH

trust income ..............................

100(2)

corporate unit trusts

 

see dividends

 

Cyclone Larry or Cyclone Monica income support payment

 

see social security and other benefit payments

 

defence force

 

members serving overseas ....................

79B

dependants

 

invalid relative, invalid spouse or carer in receipt of carer benefit 

Subdivision 61A

dividends

 

general.................................

20720(2), 20745, 207110(2)(c), 210170(1)

early stage venture capital limited partnerships

 

contributions to ESVCLPs.........................................

Subdivision 61P

employment termination

 

employment termination payments ...............

8210
8270

see leave payments, superannuation and sections 8210A and 8210C of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

 

Equine Workers Hardship Wage Supplement Payment

 

see social security and other benefit payments

 

exploration for minerals

 

junior minerals exploration incentive .............

Subdivision 418B

film

 

 ....................................

Division 376

foreign income tax

 

foreign income tax paid, tax offset for.............

Division 770

franking deficit tax

 

liabilities to pay............................

20570

franked dividends

 

see dividends

 

hardship

 

see child

 

housing

 

National Rental Affordability...................

Division 380

imputation

 

see dividends and franking deficit tax

 

innovation companies

 

certain shares issued to early stage investors.........

Subdivision 360A

intercorporate dividends

 

see dividends

 

interest

 

tax paid on by company ......................

127

interim income support payment

 

see social security and other benefit payments

 

invalid relative

 

see dependants

 

leave payments

 

unused annual leave payment ........................

8315

unused long service leave payment ...............

8385

see employment termination

 

legal disability

 

see trusts

 

life assurance

 

bonus, receipt of ...........................

160AAB

life insurance company

 

subsidiary joining consolidated group .............

713545(5)

long service leave

 

see leave payments

 

low income earner

 

aged or pensioner beneficiary, trustee liable to be assessed for beneficiary’s share of net income of trust estate              


160AAAB

aged person or pensioner......................

160AAAA

general.................................

Subdivision 61D

lump sum income arrears

 

receipt of ................................

159ZRA, 159ZRB, Subdivision 61L

nonresident beneficiary

 

see trusts

 

nonresident trust estate

 

see trusts

 

overseas defence force service

 

see defence force

 

partnerships

 

see dividends, housing and small business entities

 

pension

 

see social security and other benefit payments

 

pooled superannuation trusts (PSTs)

 

see dividends

 

primary production

 

averaging of income, trustees ..................

156

averaging of tax liability, individuals .............

39235(2)

farm household allowance see social security and other benefit payments


 

interim income support payments see social security and other benefit payments

 

private health insurance

 

......................................

Subdivision 61–G

public trading trust

 

see dividends

 

public unit trust

 

see dividends

 

R&D

Division 355

residents of isolated areas

 

see zone

 

small business

 

small business income.......................

Subdivision 328F

social security and other benefit payments

 

Aboriginal study assistance scheme ..............

160AAA(3)

children, assistance for isolated .................

160AAA(3)

Cyclone Larry or Cyclone Monica income support payment  


160AAA(3)

Disaster income support allowance for special category visa (subclass 444) holders             


160AAA(3)

Equine Workers Hardship Wage Supplement Payment ..

160AAA(3)

farm household allowance under the Farm Household Support Act 2014 see unemployment and other benefit payments under the Social Security Act 1991


 

interim income support payment.................

160AAA(3)

pension, social security pension and veteran’s pension ..

160AAAA

textile, clothing and footwear allowance............

160AAA(3)

unemployment and other benefit payments under the Social Security Act 1991             


160AAA(3)

superannuation

 

generally ................................

Divisions 301 and 302

associated earnings on nonconcessional contributions  

Subdivision 292B

spouse contributions ........................

Subdivision 290D

death benefits .............................

30275
30285
302145

excess concessional contributions ................

29115(b)

first home super saver scheme ..................

31325

member benefits ...........................

30120
30125
30135
30140
30195
301100
301105
301115

TFN quoted to superannuation or RSA provider after noTFN contributions tax paid              


295675

termination payments

 

see employment termination, leave payments and superannuation

 

trustee

 

see dividends, low income earner and trusts

 

trusts

 

beneficiary in a foreign trust...................

98B

nonresident beneficiary................

98A(2)(a)

trust income of beneficiary with legal disability.......

100(2)

trust income (modifications for special disability trusts).


95AB(5)

see also dividends, housing and small business entities

 

United Nations forces

 

salary, wages and allowances from service as a member of 


23AB(7)

unemployment benefits

 

see social security and other benefit payments

 

unit trusts

 

see dividends

 

windingup of nonresident trust estates

 

see trusts

 

withholding payments

 

made by companies to Australian seafarers..........

Subdivision 61N

zone

 

residents of isolated areas .....................

79A

Chapter 2Liability rules of general application

Part 21Assessable income

Division 15Some items of assessable income

Guide to Division 15

151  What this Division is about

This Division sets out some items that are included in your assessable income. Remember that the general rules about assessable income in Division 6 apply to these items.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

152 Allowances and other things provided in respect of employment or services

153 Return to work payments

155 Accrued leave transfer payments

1510 Bounties and subsidies

1515 Profitmaking undertaking or plan

1520 Royalties

1522 Payments made to members of a copyright collecting society

1523 Payments of resale royalties by resale royalty collecting society

1525 Amount received for lease obligation to repair

1530 Insurance or indemnity for loss of assessable income

1535 Interest on overpayments and early payments of tax

1540 Providing mining, quarrying or prospecting information or geothermal exploration information

1545 Amounts paid under forestry agreements

1546 Amounts paid under forestry managed investment schemes

1550 Work in progress amounts

1555 Certain amounts paid under funeral policy

1560 Certain amounts paid under scholarship plan

1570 Reimbursed car expenses

1575 Bonuses

1580 Franked distributions entitled to a foreign income tax deduction—Additional Tier 1 capital exception

Operative provisions

152  Allowances and other things provided in respect of employment or services

 (1) Your assessable income includes the value to you of all allowances, gratuities, compensation, benefits, bonuses and premiums *provided to you in respect of, or for or in relation directly or indirectly to, any employment of or services rendered by you (including any service as a member of the Defence Force).

 (2) This is so whether the things were *provided in money or in any other form.

 (3) However, the value of the following are not included in your assessable income under this section:

 (a) a *superannuation lump sum or an *employment termination payment;

 (b) an *unused annual leave payment or an *unused long service leave payment;

 (c) a *dividend or *nonshare dividend;

 (d) an amount that is assessable as *ordinary income under section 65;

 (e) *ESS interests to which Subdivision 83AB or 83AC (about employee share schemes) applies.

Note: Section 23L of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 provides that fringe benefits are nonassessable nonexempt income.

153  Return to work payments

  Your assessable income includes an amount you receive under an *arrangement that an entity enters into for a purpose of inducing you to resume working for, or providing services to, any entity.

155  Accrued leave transfer payments

  Your assessable income includes an *accrued leave transfer payment that you receive.

To find out if the payment is deductible to the payer, see section 2610.

1510  Bounties and subsidies

  Your assessable income includes a bounty or subsidy that:

 (a) you receive in relation to carrying on a *business; and

 (b) is not assessable as *ordinary income under section 65.

1515  Profitmaking undertaking or plan

 (1) Your assessable income includes profit arising from the carrying on or carrying out of a profitmaking undertaking or plan.

 (2) This section does not apply to a profit that:

 (a) is assessable as *ordinary income under section 65; or

 (b) arises in respect of the sale of property acquired on or after 20 September 1985.

Note: If you sell property you acquired before 20 September 1985 for profitmaking by sale, your assessable income includes the profit: see section 25A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

1520  Royalties

 (1) Your assessable income includes an amount that you receive as or by way of royalty within the ordinary meaning of “royalty” (disregarding the definition of royalty in subsection 9951(1)) if the amount is not assessable as *ordinary income under section 65.

 (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an amount of a payment to which section 1522 or 1523 applies.

1522  Payments made to members of a copyright collecting society

 (1) This section, instead of Division 6 of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, applies to a payment that a *copyright collecting society, to which section 5143 applies, makes to you as a *member of the society.

 (2) Your assessable income includes the amount of the payment, except to the extent that the payment represents an amount on which the directors of the society are or have been assessed, and are liable to pay *tax, under section 98, 99 or 99A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

Note: Section 4105 of this Act requires a copyright collecting society to give you a notice at the time of payment.

1523  Payments of resale royalties by resale royalty collecting society

 (1) This section, instead of Division 6 of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, applies to a payment that the *resale royalty collecting society makes to you under section 26 of the Resale Royalty Right for Visual Artists Act 2009.

 (2) Your assessable income includes the amount of the payment, except to the extent that the payment represents an amount on which the directors of the society are or have been assessed, and are liable to pay *tax, under section 98, 99 or 99A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

Note: Section 41050 of this Act requires the resale royalty collecting society to give you a notice at the time of payment.

1525  Amount received for lease obligation to repair

  Your assessable income includes an amount you receive from an entity if:

 (a) you receive it as a lessor or former lessor of premises; and

 (b) the entity pays you the amount for failing to comply with a lease obligation to make repairs to the premises; and

 (c) the entity uses or has used the premises for the *purpose of producing assessable income; and

 (d) the amount is not assessable as *ordinary income under section 65.

Note: The entity can deduct the amount: see section 2515.

1530  Insurance or indemnity for loss of assessable income

  Your assessable income includes an amount you receive by way of insurance or indemnity for the loss of an amount (the lost amount) if:

 (a) the lost amount would have been included in your assessable income; and

 (b) the amount you receive is not assessable as *ordinary income under section 65.

1535  Interest on overpayments and early payments of tax

  Your assessable income includes interest payable to you under the Taxation (Interest on Overpayments and Early Payments) Act 1983. The interest becomes assessable when it is paid to you or applied to discharge a liability you have to the Commonwealth.

1540  Providing mining, quarrying or prospecting information or geothermal exploration information

 (1) Your assessable income includes an amount you receive for providing *mining, quarrying or prospecting information to another entity if:

 (a) you continue to *hold the information; and

 (b) the amount you receive is not assessable as *ordinary income under section 65.

 (2) Your assessable income includes an amount you receive for providing *geothermal exploration information you have to another entity if:

 (a) you continue to have the information; and

 (b) the information is, and continues to be, relevant to:

 (i) *geothermal energy extraction that you carry on or propose to carry on; or

 (ii) a *business that you carry on that includes *exploration or prospecting for *geothermal energy resources from which energy can be extracted by geothermal energy extraction; and

 (c) the amount you receive is not assessable as *ordinary income under section 65.

It does not matter whether the information is generally available or not.

 (3) Geothermal exploration information is geological, geophysical or technical information that:

 (a) relates to the presence, absence or extent of *geothermal energy resources in an area; or

 (b) is likely to help in determining the presence, absence or extent of such resources in an area.

 (4) Geothermal energy extraction means operations that are for:

 (a) the extraction of energy from *geothermal energy resources; and

 (b) the *purpose of producing assessable income.

1545  Amounts paid under forestry agreements

 (1) Your assessable income includes an amount you receive under an agreement for the planting and tending of trees for felling if:

 (a) you are the manager of the agreement as mentioned in section 82KZMG of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936; and

 (b) the amount satisfies, for the entity that paid it, the requirements of that section.

The amount is included for the income year in which the entity can claim a deduction for the amount.

 (2) No part of an amount included under subsection (1) is included in your assessable income for a later income year.

1546  Amounts paid under forestry managed investment schemes

 (1) Your assessable income includes an amount you receive under a *forestry managed investment scheme if:

 (a) you are the *forestry manager of the scheme, or an *associate of the forestry manager; and

 (b) the entity that paid the amount can deduct or has deducted the amount under section 39410 in relation to the scheme (disregarding subsection 39410(5)).

The amount is included for the income year for which the entity that paid the amount can or has claimed a deduction for it (disregarding subsection 39410(5)).

 (2) No part of an amount included under subsection (1) is included in your assessable income for a later income year.

1550  Work in progress amounts

  Your assessable income includes a *work in progress amount that you receive.

Note: To find out whether the amount is deductible to the payer, see section 2595.

1555  Certain amounts paid under funeral policy

 (1) Your assessable income includes the amount of a benefit provided to you by a *life insurance company under a *funeral policy issued after 31 December 2002 to pay for the funeral of the insured person, reduced by:

 (a) the amount of the premium or premiums of the policy that is reasonably related to the benefit; and

 (b) the amount of the fees and charges included in the company’s assessable income for any income year under paragraph 32015(1)(k) that is reasonably related to the benefit.

 (2) This section does not apply if the benefit is included in your assessable income as:

 (a) *ordinary income under section 65; or

 (b) *statutory income under a section of this Act other than this section.

1560  Certain amounts paid under scholarship plan

 (1) Your assessable income includes the amount of a benefit provided to you, or on your behalf, by a *life insurance company under a *scholarship plan covered by subsection (2) or (3), reduced by the amount worked out under subsection (4), if:

 (a) the benefit is provided on or after 1 January 2003; and

 (b) you are nominated in the plan as a beneficiary whose education is to be helped by the benefit.

 (2) This subsection covers a *scholarship plan issued by the *life insurance company after 31 December 2002.

 (3) This subsection covers a *scholarship plan if:

 (a) the plan was issued by the *life insurance company before 1 January 2003; and

 (b) no amount received by the company on or after 1 January 2003 and attributable to the plan is *nonassessable nonexempt income of the company under paragraph 32037(1)(d).

 (4) The amount of the reduction is the sum of:

 (a) the amount of the premium or premiums of the plan that is reasonably related to the benefit; and

 (b) the amount of the fees and charges included in the company’s assessable income for any income year under paragraph 32015(1)(k) that is reasonably related to the benefit.

1570  Reimbursed car expenses

  Your assessable income includes a reimbursement mentioned in section 22 of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 (about exempt car expense payment benefits) that, but for that section, would be a *fringe benefit *provided to you.

1575  Bonuses

  Your assessable income includes any amount you receive as or by way of bonus on a *life insurance policy, other than a reversionary bonus.

Note: Reversionary bonuses are covered by section 65 of this Act if they are ordinary income and, if not, by section 26AH of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

1580  Franked distributions entitled to a foreign income tax deduction—Additional Tier 1 capital exception

 (1) If section 207158 would, apart from subsection 207158(2), apply to a *franked distribution, then an amount equal to the *foreign income tax deduction referred to in subsection (1) of that section is included in the assessable income of the entity that made the distribution for the income year mentioned in subsection (2) of this section.

 (2) The income year is:

 (a) if the *foreign tax period in which the *foreign income tax deduction arises falls wholly within an income year of the entity—that income year; or

 (b) if the foreign tax period in which the foreign income tax deduction arises straddles 2 income years of the entity—the later of those income years.

Division 17Effect of GST etc. on assessable income

Guide to Division 17

171  What this Division is about

This Division sets out the effect of the GST in working out assessable income. Generally speaking, GST, input tax credits and adjustments under the GST Act are disregarded.

Table of sections

175 GST and increasing adjustments

1710 Certain decreasing adjustments

1715 Elements in calculation of amounts

1720 GST groups and GST joint ventures

1730 Special credits because of indirect tax transition

1735 Certain sections not to apply to certain assets or expenditure

175  GST and increasing adjustments

  An amount is not assessable income, and is not *exempt income, to the extent that it includes an amount relating to:

 (a) *GST payable on a *taxable supply; or

 (b) an *increasing adjustment that relates to a *supply; or

 (c) an *increasing adjustment that:

 (i) relates to an *acquisition; and

 (ii) arises in circumstances that also give rise to a *recoupment that is included in assessable income.

1710  Certain decreasing adjustments

 (1) An amount of a *decreasing adjustment that arises under Division 129 or 132 of the *GST Act is assessable income, unless the entity that has the adjustment is an *exempt entity.

 (2) However, the amount is not assessable income to the extent that, because it becomes a component of a *net input tax credit, a reduction is made under section 10330 (reduction of cost base etc. by net input tax credits).

1715  Elements in calculation of amounts

  In calculating an amount that may be included in assessable income:

 (a) an element in the calculation that is an amount received or receivable is treated as not including an amount equal to any *GST payable on a *taxable supply related to the amount received or receivable, or any *increasing adjustment related to that amount; and

 (b) an element in the calculation that is an amount paid or payable is treated as not including an amount equal to any *input tax credit for an *acquisition related to the amount paid or payable, or any *decreasing adjustment related to that amount.

1720  GST groups and GST joint ventures

 (1) A *member of a *GST group is to be treated, for the purposes of this Division, as if Subdivision 48B of the *GST Act (other than paragraph 4840(2)(a) and subsection 4840(3)) did not apply to that member.

 (2) A *participant in a *GST joint venture is to be treated, for the purposes of this Division, as if Subdivision 51B of the *GST Act (other than subsections 5130(2) and (3)) did not apply to that participant.

1730  Special credits because of indirect tax transition

  A special credit under section 19A of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax Transition) Act 1999 is assessable income at the time it is attributed to a *tax period (for a credit under section 19A).

1735  Certain sections not to apply to certain assets or expenditure

  Sections 175, 1710 and 1715 do not apply to assets, or to expenditure, for which you can deduct amounts under Division 40 or Division 328.

Note: See instead Subdivision 27B.

Division 20Amounts included to reverse the effect of past deductions

Table of Subdivisions

 Guide to Division 20

20A Insurance, indemnity or other recoupment for deductible expenses

20B Disposal of a car for which lease payments have been deducted

Guide to Division 20

201  What this Division is about

This Division includes amounts in your assessable income to reverse the effect of certain kinds of deductions.

Table of sections

205 Other provisions that reverse the effect of deductions

205  Other provisions that reverse the effect of deductions

  The table lists other provisions that reverse the effect of certain kinds of deductions.

  Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are identified in normal text. The other provisions, in bold, are provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 

Provisions that adjust your tax position in respect of deductions

Item

In this situation:

See:

1

A balancing adjustment for a depreciating asset is included in your assessable income.

40285(1) and 40445(2)

2

An amount you receive by way of insurance or indemnity for a loss of trading stock is included in your assessable income.

70115

2A

Limited recourse debt that was used to finance expenditure deductible under a capital allowance (or on property for which you have deducted or can deduct amounts under a capital allowance) terminates: an amount is included in your assessable income

24340

3

Because of:

 petroleum resource rent tax; or

 an instalment of petroleum resource rent tax;

that you have deducted or can deduct, an amount is refunded, credited, paid or applied: the amount is included in your assessable income.

40750(3)

4

You receive a fringe benefit by way of reimbursement or payment of a loss or outgoing you incurred: your deduction for the loss or outgoing is reduced.

51AH

7

You receive an amount as recoupment for your local governing body election expenses: an amount is included in your assessable income.

74A(4)

8

You receive superannuation benefits as a result of someone’s deductible contributions: the benefits are included in your assessable income.

290100

9

An R&D entity receives or becomes entitled to receive an amount:

 for, or relating to, the results of R&D activities; or

 attributable to it incurring expenditure on R&D activities or to its use of a depreciating asset for the purpose of conducting R&D activities;

and the entity is entitled under Division 355 to a tax offset relating to those R&D activities.

The amount is included in its assessable income.

355410

10

You receive a recoupment from government relating to R&D activities for which entitlements to tax offsets under Division 355 arise.

Extra income tax is payable on the recoupment.

Subdivision 355G

Subdivision 20AInsurance, indemnity or other recoupment for deductible expenses

Guide to Subdivision 20A

2010  What this Subdivision is about

Recoupment of expenses you incurred and can deduct

Your assessable income may include an amount that you receive by way of insurance, indemnity or other recoupment if:

  it is for a deductible expense; and

  it is not otherwise assessable income.

Recoupment of expenses you did not incur but can deduct

Your assessable income may include an amount that another entity receives by way of insurance, indemnity or other recoupment if:

  it is for an expense that you can deduct; and

  it is not otherwise your assessable income.

Table of sections

2015 How to use this Subdivision

What is an assessable recoupment?

2020 Assessable recoupments

2025 What is recoupment?

2030 Tables of deductions for which recoupments are assessable

How much is included in your assessable income?

2035 If the expense is deductible in a single income year

2040 If the expense is deductible over 2 or more income years

2045 Effect of balancing charge

2050 If the expense is only partially deductible

2055 Meaning of previous recoupment law

What if you can deduct a loss or outgoing incurred by another entity?

2060 If you are the only entity that can deduct an amount for the loss or outgoing

2065 If 2 or more entities can deduct amounts for the loss or outgoing

2015  How to use this Subdivision

If you incurred the deductible loss or outgoing

 (1) First, read sections 2020 to 2030 to work out whether you have received an assessable recoupment. If not, you do not need to read the rest of the Subdivision.

 (2) If you have received one or more assessable recoupments, sections 2035 to 2055 tell you how much is included in your assessable income for an income year.

If another entity incurred a loss or outgoing you can deduct

 (3) Sections 2060 and 2065 tell you how to apply this Subdivision.

What is an assessable recoupment?

2020  Assessable recoupments

Exclusion

 (1) An amount is not an assessable recoupment to the extent that it is *ordinary income, or it is *statutory income because of a provision outside this Subdivision.

Insurance or indemnity

 (2) An amount you have received as *recoupment of a loss or outgoing is an assessable recoupment if:

 (a) you received the amount by way of insurance or indemnity; and

 (b) you can deduct an amount for the loss or outgoing for the *current year, or you have deducted or can deduct an amount for it for an earlier income year, under any provision of this Act.

Other recoupment

 (3) An amount you have received as *recoupment of a loss or outgoing (except by way of insurance or indemnity) is an assessable recoupment if:

 (a) you can deduct an amount for the loss or outgoing for the *current year; or

 (b) you have deducted or can deduct an amount for the loss or outgoing for an earlier income year;

under a provision listed in section 2030.

2025  What is recoupment?

General

 (1) Recoupment of a loss or outgoing includes:

 (a) any kind of recoupment, reimbursement, refund, insurance, indemnity or recovery, however described; and

 (b) a grant in respect of the loss or outgoing.

Amount paid for you

 (2) If some other entity pays an amount for you in respect of a loss or outgoing that you incur, you are taken to receive the amount as recoupment of the loss or outgoing.

Remission of general interest charge or shortfall interest charge

 (2A) If:

 (a) you have incurred expenditure that consists of *general interest charge or *shortfall interest charge; and

 (b) the Commissioner remits any of that charge;

then you are taken to receive the remitted amount as recoupment of that expenditure.

Amount for disposing of right to recoupment

 (3) If you dispose of your right to receive an amount as *recoupment of a loss or outgoing you are taken to receive as recoupment of the loss or outgoing any amount you receive for disposing of that right. (The disposal need not be to another entity.)

Amount received that is recoupment to an unspecified extent

 (4) If you receive an amount that is, to an unspecified extent, *recoupment of a loss or outgoing, the amount is taken to be recoupment of the loss or outgoing to whatever extent is reasonable.

Balancing adjustments not covered

 (5) If a balancing adjustment is required for property on which you incurred a loss or outgoing, no part of the *termination value of the property is an amount you receive as recoupment of the loss or outgoing.

Note: The termination value is usually the amount you receive because of disposal, loss or destruction of the property.

2030  Tables of deductions for which recoupments are assessable

 (1) This table shows the deductions under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 for which recoupments are assessable.

Note: References are to section numbers except where otherwise indicated.

 

Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

Item

Provision

Description of expense

1.1

81 (so far as it allows you to deduct a bad debt, or part of a debt that is bad)

bad debts

1.2

81 (so far as it allows you to deduct rates or taxes)

rates or taxes

1.3

255

taxrelated expenses

1.4

2535

bad debts

1.5

2545

embezzlement or larceny by an employee

1.5A

2547

misappropriation by an employee or agent

1.6

2560

election expenses, Commonwealth and State elections

1.6A

2565

election expenses, local governing body

1.7

2575

rates and land taxes on premises used to produce mutual receipts

1.8

The former 2580

upgrading assets to meet GST obligations etc.

1.8A

2595

work in progress amount

1.8B

item 7 of the table in section 3015

contributions relating to fundraising events

1.8C

item 8 of the table in section 3015

contributions relating to fundraising auctions

1.9

Division 40

capital allowances

1.10

The former Division 42 (as it applied to *software because of the former Subdivision 46B)

expenditure on software

1.11

The former Subdivision 46C

expenditure on software

1.12

The former Subdivision 46D

expenditure on software, pooled

1.13

The former Division 42 (as it applied to *IRUs because of Division 44)

expenditure on IRUs

1.14

The former 33015

exploration or prospecting expenditure

1.15

The former 33080

allowable capital expenditure relating to mining or quarrying

1.16

The former 330350

petroleum resource rent tax

1.17

The former 330370

transport capital expenditure relating to mining or quarrying

1.18

The former 330435

rehabilitation expenditure relating to mining or quarrying

1.19

The former 330485

balancing adjustment deduction for expenditure relating to mining or quarrying

1.19A

Division 355

R&D

1.20

The former Subdivisions 380A and 380C

capital expenditure incurred in obtaining a spectrum licence

1.21

The former Subdivision 387A

landcare operations expenditure

1.22

The former Subdivision 387B

expenditure on facilities to conserve or convey water

1.23

The former Subdivision 387D

grapevine establishment expenditure

1.24

The former Subdivision 387C

horticultural plant establishment expenditure

1.25

The former Subdivision 387E

mains electricity connection expenditure

1.26

The former Subdivision 400A

expenditure on environmental impact assessment

1.27

The former Subdivision 400B

expenditure on environmental protection activities

1.27A

42015

registered emissions unit

1.28

77530

forex realisation loss

 (2) This table shows the deductions under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 for which recoupments are assessable.

Note: References are to section numbers except where otherwise indicated.

 

Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

Item

Provision

Description of expense

2.1

Former 51(1) (so far as it allowed you to deduct a bad debt, or part of a debt that is bad)

bad debts

2.2

Former 51(1) (so far as it allowed you to deduct rates or taxes)

rates or taxes

2.3

63

bad debts

2.4

Former 69

taxrelated expenses

2.5

Former 70A(3)

mains electricity connection expenditure

2.6

Former 71

embezzlement or larceny by an employee

2.7

Former 72

rates and land tax

2.7A

Former 72A

a payment of petroleum resource rent tax, or an instalment of petroleum resource rent tax, or a credit under paragraph 99(d) of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987 in respect of a payment of such an instalment

2.8

Former 73B, 73BA or 73BH

research and development activity expenditure

2.9

Former 74

election expenses, Commonwealth and State elections

2.9A

Former 74A

election expenses, local governing body

2.10

Former 75AA(1) or (6)

grape vine establishment expenditure

2.11

Former 75B(2) or (3A)

water conservation or conveyance expenditure

2.12

Former 75D(2)

land degradation prevention expenditure

2.13

Former 82AB

development allowance expenditure

2.14

Former 82BB

environmental impact study expenditure

2.15

Former 82BK

environmental protection expenditure

2.17

Former Division 10 of Part III

mining and quarrying expenditure

2.18

Former Division 10AAA of Part III

expenditure on transport of minerals and quarry materials

2.19

Former Division 10AA of Part III

expenditure on prospecting and mining for petroleum

2.20

Former 124BA

expenditure on rehabilitating mining, quarrying and petroleum sites

2.21

Former 124ZZF

horticultural plant establishment expenditure (effective life of the plant less than 3 years)

2.22

Former 124ZZG

horticultural plant establishment expenditure (effective life of the plant more than 3 years)

2.23

Former 628

drought mitigation property expenditure by a primary producer

2.24

Former 636

drought mitigation property expenditure by a leasing company

How much is included in your assessable income?

2035  If the expense is deductible in a single income year

 (1) Your assessable income includes an *assessable recoupment of a loss or outgoing if:

 (a) you can deduct the whole of the loss or outgoing for the *current year; or

 (b) you have deducted or can deduct the whole of the loss or outgoing for an earlier income year.

Note 1: The operation of this section may be affected if a balancing charge has been included in your assessable income because of a deduction for the loss or outgoing: see section 2045.

Note 2: Recoupment of a loss or outgoing for which you can deduct amounts over more than one income year is covered by section 2040.

Note 3: Recoupment of a loss or outgoing that is only partially deductible is covered by section 2050.

Total assessed not to exceed the loss or outgoing

 (2) The total of all amounts that subsection (1) includes in your assessable income for one or more income years in respect of a loss or outgoing cannot exceed the amount of the loss or outgoing.

Recoupment received before income year of the deduction

 (3) If:

 (a) you can deduct the whole of a loss or outgoing for the *current year; and

 (b) before the current year you received an *assessable recoupment of the loss or outgoing;

your assessable income for the current year includes so much of the recoupment as subsection (1) would have included if you had instead received the recoupment at the start of the current year.

2040  If the expense is deductible over 2 or more income years

 (1) This section includes an amount in your assessable income if:

 (a) you receive in the *current year an *assessable recoupment of a loss or outgoing for which you can deduct amounts over 2 or more income years; or

 (b) you received in an earlier income year an *assessable recoupment of a loss or outgoing of that kind (unless all of the recoupment has already been included in your assessable income for one or more earlier income years by this section or a *previous recoupment law).

(This section applies even if the recoupment was received before the first of those income years.)

Note: Recoupment of a loss or outgoing that is only partially deductible is covered by section 2050.

 (2) Work out as follows how much is included in your assessable income for the *current year because of one or more *assessable recoupments of the loss or outgoing.

Note: The method statement ensures that assessable recoupments are included:

Method statement

Step 1. Add up all the *assessable recoupments of the loss or outgoing that you have received (in the *current year or earlier). The result is the total assessable recoupment.

Step 2. Add up the amounts (if any) included in your assessable income for earlier income years, in respect of the loss or outgoing, by this section or a *previous recoupment law. The result is the recoupment already assessed. (If no amount was included, the recoupment already assessed is nil.)

Step 3. Subtract the recoupment already assessed from the total assessable recoupment. The result is the unassessed recoupment.

Step 4. Add up each amount that you can deduct for the loss or outgoing for the *current year, or you have deducted or can deduct for the loss or outgoing for an earlier income year. The result is the total deductions for the loss or outgoing.

 Note: The total deductions may be reduced if an amount has been included in your assessable income because of a balancing adjustment: see section 2045.

Step 5. Subtract the recoupment already assessed from the total deductions for the loss or outgoing. The result is the outstanding deductions.

Step 6. The unassessed recoupment is included in your assessable income, unless it is greater than the outstanding deductions. In that case, the amount of the outstanding deductions is included instead.

Example: At the start of the 200203 income year, a company incurs $100,000 to start to hold a depreciating asset. The company uses the prime cost method, and the effective life is 10 years. $10,000 is deductible for the 200203 income year and for each of the following 9 income years under section 4025.

 In the 200203 income year, the company receives $20,000 as recoupment. How much is assessable for the 200203 income year?

 Applying the method statement:

 After step 1: the total assessable recoupment is $20,000.

 After step 2: the recoupment already assessed is nil.

 After step 3: the unassessed recoupment is:
total assessable recoupment minus recoupment already assessed,
i.e. $20,000 minus 0 = $20,000.

 After step 4: the total deductions for the loss or outgoing are $10,000.

 After step 5: the outstanding deductions are:
total deductions for the loss or outgoing minus recoupment already assessed, i.e. $10,000 minus 0 = $10,000.

 After step 6: the unassessed recoupment (step 3) is greater than outstanding deductions (step 5), so the amount of the outstanding deductions is included in assessable income, i.e. $10,000.

 Applying the method statement to the 200304 income year: a further $10,000 is included in the company’s assessable income.

2045  Effect of balancing charge

 (1) This section may affect the operation of section 2035 or 2040 (as appropriate) if:

 (a) a balancing adjustment is required for the *current year (or for an earlier income year) because you have deducted or can deduct an amount for an income year for the loss or outgoing; and

 (b) an amount (the balancing charge) is included in your assessable income for the *current year (or for the earlier income year) because of the balancing adjustment.

To find out about balancing adjustments, see Subdivision 40D.

Effect on section 2035

 (2) In applying section 2035, treat each of the following as reduced by the balancing charge:

 (a) the amount of the loss or outgoing;

 (b) the total of what you can deduct for the loss or outgoing for the *current year, or have deducted or can deduct for an earlier income year.

Effect on section 2040

 (3) In applying the method statement in subsection 2040(2), reduce the total deductions for the loss or outgoing by the balancing charge.

Example: Continuing the example in subsection 2040(2): at the start of the 200506 income year, the company:

 As a result of the sale, a balancing adjustment of $5,000 is included under section 40285 in the company’s assessable income for that income year.

 How much of the recoupment amount received in the 200506 income year is assessable for that income year?

 Applying the method statement in subsection 2040(2):

 After step 1: the total assessable recoupment is $30,000 (received during 200203 and 200506).

 After step 2: the recoupment already assessed is $20,000 (for 200203 and 200304).

 After step 3: the unassessed recoupment is:
total assessable recoupment minus recoupment already assessed,
i.e. $30,000 minus $20,000 = $10,000.

 After step 4: the total deductions for the loss or outgoing are $30,000 ($10,000 for each of 200203, 200404 and 200405), reduced by $5,000 (the amount included in assessable income for the balancing adjustment), i.e. $25,000.

 After step 5: the outstanding deductions are:
total deductions for the loss or outgoing minus recoupment already assessed, i.e. $25,000 minus $20,000 = $5,000.

 After step 6: the unassessed recoupment (step 3) is greater than outstanding deductions (step 5), so the amount of the outstanding deductions is included in assessable income, i.e. $5,000.

2050  If the expense is only partially deductible

 (1) This section extends the operation of section 2035 or 2040 (as appropriate) to a case where the total of what you can deduct under a provision (the deduction provision) for a loss or outgoing is limited to a proportion of the loss or outgoing.

 (2) If you receive an *assessable recoupment of the loss or outgoing, section 2035 or 2040 applies as if:

 (a) you had incurred only that proportion of the loss or outgoing, but could deduct the whole of that proportion under the deduction provision; and

 (b) you had received only that proportion of the recoupment.

Example: You incur expenditure of $500. A provision listed in section 2030 entitles you to deduct 10% of the expenditure ($50) over 5 years. This means you can deduct $10 in each of the 5 years.

 You recoup $300 of the expenditure. This section treats you as receiving only 10% of the recoupment. Therefore, $30 is dealt with by section 2040.

2055  Meaning of previous recoupment law

 (1) Previous recoupment law means a provision of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 listed in this table.

 

Previous recoupment law


Item


Provision

What kind of expense the provision relates to:

1

former 26(j) (so far as it relates to an amount received for or in respect of a loss or outgoing that is a deduction)

a loss or outgoing that is a deduction

2

former 26(k)

embezzlement or larceny by an employee

3

former 63(3)

bad debts

4

former 69(8)

taxrelated expenses

5

former 70A(5)

mains electricity connection expenditure

6

former 72(2) (so far as it relates to a refund of an amount you have deducted or can deduct)

rates or taxes

6A

former 72A(4)(a) and (aa)

petroleum resource rent tax

7

former 74(2)

election expenses, Commonwealth and State elections

 (2) Former section 330350 of this Act is also a previous recoupment law.

What if you can deduct a loss or outgoing incurred by another entity?

2060  If you are the only entity that can deduct an amount for the loss or outgoing

  This Subdivision applies in a different way if:

 (a) an entity (other than you) incurs a loss or outgoing; and

 (b) you can deduct the whole of the loss or outgoing for an income year, or you can deduct amounts for the loss or outgoing over 2 or more income years; and

 (c) no other entity can deduct an amount for the loss or outgoing; and

 (d) the entity that incurred the loss or outgoing receives one or more amounts as *recoupment of the loss or outgoing.

This Subdivision (except this section and section 2065) applies as if you had incurred the loss or outgoing and had also received the *recoupment.

2065  If 2 or more entities can deduct amounts for the loss or outgoing

 (1) Special rules apply if:

 (a) an entity (the first entity) incurs a loss or outgoing; and

 (b) 2 or more entities (the deducting entities, which may include the first entity) have deducted or can deduct amounts for the loss or outgoing (whether for the same income year or for different income years); and

 (c) the first entity receives one or more amounts as *recoupment of the loss or outgoing.

 (2) This Subdivision (except this section and section 2060) applies as if the first entity and the deducting entities together constituted a single entity (the notional entity) that had:

 (a) incurred the loss or outgoing; and

 (b) received the amount or amounts as *recoupment; and

 (c) included in its assessable income any amount included in the assessable income of any of the deducting entities under a *previous recoupment law or this Subdivision (except this section).

 (3) If because of subsection (2) the notional entity’s assessable income for an income year (the assessment year) would include an amount under this Subdivision (the assessable amount), the amount reverses in the assessment year the deductions for the loss or outgoing, in accordance with the rules in subsection (5).

 (4) The assessable income of each deducting entity for the assessment year includes the total amounts (if any) by which that entity’s actual deductions for the loss or outgoing are reversed in that income year.

 (5) Deductions for the loss or outgoing are reversed in the assessment year as follows:

 (a) the amounts by which deductions are reversed total the assessable amount (unless all the deductions have been reversed);

 (b) a deduction for an income year is not reversed until all deductions for earlier income years have been reversed;

 (c) a deduction is not reversed in the assessment year to the extent that it has already been reversed in an earlier year;

 (d) if each of 2 or more entities can deduct an amount for the loss or outgoing for the same income year, those deductions are reversed in the assessment year by amounts proportionate to the amounts of the deductions.

Subdivision 20BDisposal of a car for which lease payments have been deducted

Guide to Subdivision 20B

20100  What this Subdivision is about

This Subdivision reverses the effect of deductions for lease payments for a car leased to you (or to your associate), but only if you make a profit by disposing of the car after acquiring it from the lessor. The smallest of these amounts is included in your assessable income:

  your profit on the disposal;

  the total deductible lease payments for the period of the lease;

  the total amounts you could have deducted for the car’s decline in value if, instead of leasing it, you had owned it and used it solely for the purpose of producing assessable income.

Table of sections

20105 Map of this Subdivision

The usual case

20110 Disposal of a leased car for profit

20115 Working out the profit on the disposal

20120 Meaning of notional depreciation

The associate case

20125 Disposal of a leased car for profit

Successive leases

20130 Successive leases

Previous disposals of the car

20135 No amount included if earlier disposal for market value

20140 Reducing the amount to be included if there has been an earlier disposal

Miscellaneous rules

20145 No amount included if you inherited the car

20150 Reducing the amount to be included if another provision requires you to include an amount for the disposal

20155 Exception for particular cars taken on hire

20157 Exception for small business entities

Disposals of interests in a car: special rules apply

20160 Disposal of an interest in a car

20105  Map of this Subdivision

The usual case

20110  Disposal of a leased car for profit

 (1) Your assessable income includes the *profit you make on disposing of a *car if:

 (a) the car was designed mainly for carrying passengers; and

 (b) the car was leased to you and has been leased to noone else; and

 (c) you or another entity can deduct for the income year any of the lease payments paid or payable by you, or have deducted or can deduct any of them for an earlier income year, under this Act; and

 (d) you acquired the car from the lessor.

Note 1: Even if subsection (1) does not apply, an amount may still be included in your assessable income:

Note 2: In some cases you do not include an amount in your assessable income:

 (2) However, the amount included cannot exceed the smaller of these limits:

 (a) the total lease payments for the lease that you or another entity have deducted or can deduct under this Act for an income year;

 (b) the amount of *notional depreciation for the lease period.

Note 1: If, because of more than one lease of the car, there is more than one way to work out the amount to be included, you only include the largest amount: see section 20130.

Note 2: In some cases you reduce the amount to be included:

 (3) You increase those limits if you have previously leased the *car from the same lessor, or from an *associate of that lessor.

  You increase the first limit by the total lease payments for each previous lease of that kind that you or another entity have deducted or can deduct under this Act for an income year.

  You increase the second limit by the amount of *notional depreciation for the period of each previous lease of that kind.

20115  Working out the profit on the disposal

 (1) The profit on the disposal is the amount by which the *consideration receivable for the disposal exceeds:

  plus:

 (2) The consideration receivable is worked out using this table:

 

Consideration receivable for the disposal of the car

Item

In this situation:

the consideration receivable is:

1

you sell the *car for an amount specific to it

the proceeds of the sale, less the expenses of the sale

2

you sell the *car with other property without a specific amount being allocated to it

the part of the total proceeds of the sale that is reasonably attributable to the car less the part of the reasonably attributable expenses of the sale

3

you trade the *car in and buy another car

the value of the tradein, plus any other consideration you receive

4

you sell the *car and another entity buys another car

the amount by which the cost of the other car is reduced by the sale, plus any other consideration you receive

5

you dispose of the *car to an insurer because it is lost or destroyed

the amount or value received or receivable under the insurance policy

 (3) However, if the disposal of the *car is a *taxable supply, the consideration receivable does not include an amount equal to the *GST payable on the supply.

20120  Meaning of notional depreciation

  This is how to work out the notional depreciation for a lease period:

Method statement

Step 1. Compare:

  the *car’s *cost to the lessor for the purposes of Subdivision 40C (which is about working out the cost of *depreciating assets);

 with:

  the car’s *termination value for the purposes of section 40300 when the lessor disposed of it.

Step 2. If the car’s cost exceeds the car’s termination value, multiply the excess by:

  the number of days in the lease period;

 divided by:

  the number of days the lessor owned the car.

Step 3. The result is the notional depreciation for the lease period.

Step 4. If the car’s cost does not exceed the car’s termination value, the notional depreciation for the lease period is zero.

Note 1: The notional depreciation for the lease period represents:

 adjusted by:

Note 2: The car’s cost to the lessor is worked out differently if the lessor acquired it in the 199697 income year or an earlier income year: see section 20105 of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997.

Note 3: The car’s termination value is worked out differently if the lessor disposed of it in the 199697 income year or an earlier income year: see section 20110 of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997.

The associate case

20125  Disposal of a leased car for profit

 (1) Your assessable income includes the *profit you make on disposing of a *car if:

 (a) section 20110 does not include an amount in your assessable income because of the disposal; and

 (b) the car was designed mainly for carrying passengers; and

 (c) the car was leased to you or your *associate; and

 (d) you, your associate or another entity can deduct for the income year any of the lease payments paid or payable by the lessee, or have deducted or can deduct any of them for an earlier income year, under this Act; and

 (e) either:

 (i) you, your associate, or entities including you or your associate, acquired the car from the lessor; or

 (ii) another entity acquired the car from the lessor under an *arrangement that enabled you or your associate to acquire the car.

Note 1: Even if subsection (1) does not apply, an amount may be included in your assessable income if you disposed of an interest in a car (rather than the car itself): see section 20160.

Note 2: In some cases you do not include an amount in your assessable income:

 (2) However, the amount included cannot exceed the smallest of these limits:

 (a) the total lease payments for the lease that you, your *associate or another entity have deducted or can deduct under this Act for an income year;

 (b) the amount of *notional depreciation for the lease period;

 (c) if an entity other than you, or if entities including you, acquired the *car from the lessor—the amount by which the *consideration receivable for the disposal of the car by you exceeds the total of:

 (i) the car’s cost to that entity, or those entities; and

 (ii) any capital expenditure that entity, or any of those entities, incurred on the car after that acquisition and before you acquired it.

Note 1: If, because of more than one lease of the car, there is more than one way to work out the amount to be included, you only include the largest amount: see section 20130.

Note 2: In some cases you reduce the amount to be included:

Example: Your associate leases a car for 5 years and then acquires it from the lessor for $4,000. Your associate sells it to you for $3,000. You sell it for $10,000.

 Your profit is $10,000 (the consideration receivable) less $3,000 (the car’s cost to you) = $7,000.

 The first 2 limits on the amount to be included in your assessable income are $9,000 (total deductible lease payments for the lease) and $8,000 (notional depreciation for the lease period).

 Since your associate acquired the car from the lessor, the third limit is $10,000 (the consideration receivable by you) less $4,000 (the car’s cost to the associate) = $6,000.

 The amount you include in your assessable income cannot exceed the smallest of the limits. So, you do not include your profit of $7,000. Instead, you include $6,000 (the smallest of the limits).

 (3) You increase the first 2 limits if you, or your associate, have previously leased the *car from the same lessor, or from an associate of that lessor.

  You increase the first limit by the total lease payments for each previous lease of that kind that you, your *associate or another entity have deducted or can deduct under this Act for an income year.

  You increase the second limit by the amount of *notional depreciation for the period of each previous lease of that kind.

Successive leases

20130  Successive leases

  If, because of 2 or more leases of the *car, there are different amounts that could be included in your assessable income because of the disposal, only the largest of those amounts is included.

Previous disposals of the car

20135  No amount included if earlier disposal for market value

  You do not include an amount in your assessable income because of the disposal if, after the lessor disposed of the *car and before you disposed of it, an entity other than you disposed of the car and:

 (a) the *consideration receivable for that disposal was at least the *market value of the car at the time of that disposal; or

 (b) because of that disposal, that market value was included, or an amount worked out using that market value was included, in the entity’s assessable income under this Act.

20140  Reducing the amount to be included if there has been an earlier disposal

  Each limit on the amount to be included in your assessable income because of your disposal of the *car is reduced if, after the lease period began and before your disposal, the car, or an interest in it, was disposed of in one of these situations:

 

Reducing each limit on the amount to be included

Item

In this situation:

reduce each limit by:

1

Section 20110 or 20125 included an amount in your assessable income in respect of such an earlier disposal by you

that amount

2

Section 20110 or 20125 included an amount in another entity’s assessable income in respect of such an earlier disposal by the other entity

that amount

3

Section 20110 or 20125 would have included an amount in your assessable income in respect of such an earlier disposal by you but for the operation of section 20145

that amount

4

Section 20110 or 20125 would have included an amount in another entity’s assessable income in respect of such an earlier disposal by the other entity but for the operation of section 20145

that amount

5

Section 20150 reduced the amount to be included in your assessable income in respect of such an earlier disposal by you

the amount of the reduction

6

Section 20150 reduced the amount to be included in another entity’s assessable income in respect of such an earlier disposal by the other entity

the amount of the reduction

Examples: Your associate leases a car for 5 years and then acquires it. Your associate disposes of it to you and section 20110 includes $500 in your associate’s assessable income.

 You later dispose of the car.

 In working out the amount to include in your assessable income for your disposal, you can reduce each limit in subsection 20125(2) by $500 because the disposal by your associate occurred after the lease period began.

 Contrast this case:

 You lease a car for 5 years and then acquire it. You dispose of it to another entity and section 20110 includes $1,000 in your assessable income.

 You lease the car from that entity for 2 years and then acquire it. You later dispose of it.

 In working out the amount to include in your assessable income in respect of the second lease, you cannot reduce each limit in subsection 20110(2) by $1,000 because the first disposal did not occur after the start of that lease.

Note: If the earlier disposal occurred in the 199697 income year or an earlier income year, each limit may be able to be reduced by a further amount: see section 20115 of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997.

Miscellaneous rules

20145  No amount included if you inherited the car

  You do not include an amount in your assessable income because of the disposal if you inherited the *car.

20150  Reducing the amount to be included if another provision requires you to include an amount for the disposal

  The amount to be included in your assessable income because of the disposal is reduced by any amount that another provision of this Act (except sections 40285 and 40370) requires you to include in your assessable income because of the disposal.

Note: sections 40285 and 40370 are about including an amount after making a balancing adjustment on the disposal of a car.

20155  Exception for particular cars taken on hire

  This Subdivision does not apply to these kinds of leases:

 (a) letting a *car on hire under a *hire purchase agreement; or

 (b) letting a *car on hire under an agreement of a kind ordinarily entered into by people who take cars on hire intermittently on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis.

20157  Exception for small business entities

  This Subdivision does not apply to you if, at any time in the income year in which you disposed of the *car, it was allocated to a pool of yours under Division 328.

Disposals of interests in a car: special rules apply

20160  Disposal of an interest in a car

 (1) This Subdivision applies to the disposal of an interest in a *car in almost the same way as it does to the disposal of the car itself. The differences are set out below.

 (2) Your assessable income includes so much of your *profit on the disposal as is reasonable. The limits in subsections 20110(2) and 20125(2) do not apply.

 (3) The cost of the interest to you is taken to be a reasonable amount.

 (4) Sections 20135 and 20140 do not apply to the disposal.

Note 1: Section 20135 says that you do not include an amount if there has been an earlier disposal of the car for market value.

Note 2: Section 20140 allows you to reduce the amount to be included if there has been an earlier disposal of the car.

 (5) Section 20145 applies to the disposal if you inherited either the interest or the *car itself.

Note: Section 20145 says that you do not include an amount if you inherited the car.

Part 25Rules about deductibility of particular kinds of amounts

Division 25Some amounts you can deduct

Guide to Division 25

251  What this Division is about

This Division sets out some amounts you can deduct. Remember that the general rules about deductions in Division 8 (which is about general deductions) apply to this Division.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

255 Taxrelated expenses

2510 Repairs

2515 Amount paid for lease obligation to repair

2520 Lease document expenses

2525 Borrowing expenses

2530 Expenses of discharging a mortgage

2535 Bad debts

2540 Loss from profitmaking undertaking or plan

2545 Loss by theft etc.

2547 Misappropriation where a balancing adjustment event occurs

2550 Payments of pensions, gratuities or retiring allowances

2555 Payments to associations

2560 Parliament election expenses

2565 Local government election expenses

2570 Deduction for election expenses does not extend to entertainment

2575 Rates and land taxes on premises used to produce mutual receipts

2585 Certain returns in respect of debt interests

2590 Deduction relating to foreign nonassessable nonexempt income

2595 Deduction for work in progress amounts

25100 Travel between workplaces

25110 Capital expenditure to terminate lease etc.

25115 Deduction for payment of rent from land investment by operating entity to asset entity in relation to approved economic infrastructure facility

25120 Transitional—deduction for payment of rent from land investment by operating entity to asset entity

Operative provisions

255  Taxrelated expenses

 (1) You can deduct expenditure you incur to the extent that it is for:

 (a) managing your *tax affairs; or

 (b) complying with an obligation imposed on you by a *Commonwealth law, insofar as that obligation relates to the *tax affairs of an entity; or

 (c) the *general interest charge or the *shortfall interest charge; or

 (ca) a penalty under Subdivision 162D of the *GST Act; or

 (cb) levy under the Major Bank Levy Act 2017; or

 (d) obtaining a valuation in accordance with section 30212 or 3115.

Note 1: To find out whether a trustee of a deceased estate can deduct expenditure under this section, see subsection 69(7) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

Note 2: If you receive an amount as recoupment of the expenditure, the amount may be included in your assessable income: see Subdivision 20A.

No deduction for certain expenditure

 (2) You cannot deduct under subsection (1):

 (a) *tax; or

 (b) an amount withheld or payable under Part 25 or Part 210 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953; or

 (c) expenditure for *borrowing money (including payments of interest) to pay an amount covered by paragraph (a) or (b); or

 (d) expenditure for a matter relating to the commission (or possible commission) of an offence against an *Australian law or a *foreign law; or

 (e) a fee or commission for advice about the operation of a *Commonwealth law relating to taxation, unless that advice is provided by a *recognised tax adviser.

No deduction for expenditure excluded from general deductions

 (3) You cannot deduct expenditure under subsection (1) to the extent that a provision of this Act (except section 81) expressly prevents or limits your deducting it under section 81 (about general deductions). It does not matter whether the provision specifically refers to section 81.

No deduction for capital expenditure

 (4) You cannot deduct capital expenditure under subsection (1). However, for this purpose, expenditure is not capital expenditure merely because the *tax affairs concerned relate to matters of a capital nature.

Example: Under this section, you can deduct expenditure you incur in applying for a private ruling on whether you can depreciate an item of property.

Use of property taken to be for income producing purpose

 (5) Under some provisions of this Act it is important to decide whether you used property for the *purpose of producing assessable income. For provisions of that kind, your use of property is taken to be for that purpose insofar as you use the property for:

 (a) managing your *tax affairs; or

 (b) complying with an obligation imposed on you by a *Commonwealth law, insofar as that obligation relates to the *tax affairs of another entity.

Example: You buy a computer to prepare your tax returns. The expenditure you incur in buying the computer is capital expenditure and cannot be deducted under this section.

 However, to the extent that you use the computer in preparing your income tax return, you will be able to deduct the decline in value of your computer under Division 40. That is because, under this subsection, the computer is property that you are taken to use for the purpose of producing assessable income.

 (6) If another provision of this Act expressly provides that a particular use of property is not taken to be for the *purpose of producing assessable income, that provision overrides subsection (5).

No double deduction for general interest charge on a running balance account

 (7) If you deduct *general interest charge that applies to an RBA deficit debt, you can’t also deduct the corresponding general interest charge on *tax debts that have been allocated to the RBA.

Note: RBAs (running balance accounts) are dealt with in Part IIB of the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

Expenditure by trustee of deceased estate

 (8) If:

 (a) after you die, the trustee of your deceased estate incurs expenditure; and

 (b) had you incurred the expenditure before you died, you could have deducted it under subsection (1);

for the purposes of assessing the trustee for the income year in which you died, the expenditure is a deduction under that subsection.

2510  Repairs

 (1) You can deduct expenditure you incur for repairs to premises (or part of premises) or a *depreciating asset that you held or used solely for the *purpose of producing assessable income.

Property held or used partly for that purpose

 (2) If you held or used the property only partly for that purpose, you can deduct so much of the expenditure as is reasonable in the circumstances.

No deduction for capital expenditure

 (3) You cannot deduct capital expenditure under this section.

2515  Amount paid for lease obligation to repair

  You can deduct an amount that you pay for failing to comply with a lease obligation to make repairs to premises if you use or have used the premises for the *purpose of producing assessable income.

Note: The amount is assessable income of the entity to which you pay it: either as ordinary income under section 65 or because it is included by section 1525.

2520  Lease document expenses

 (1) You can deduct expenditure you incur for preparing, registering or stamping:

 (a) a lease of property; or

 (b) an assignment or surrender of a lease of property;

if you have used or will use the property solely for the *purpose of producing assessable income.

Property used partly for that purpose

 (2) If you have used, or will use, the leased property only partly for that purpose, you can deduct the expenditure to the extent that you have used, or will use, the leased property for that purpose.

2525  Borrowing expenses

 (1) You can deduct expenditure you incur for *borrowing money, to the extent that you use the money for the *purpose of producing assessable income. In most cases the deduction is spread over the *period of the loan.

For the cases where the deduction is not spread, see subsection (6).

Note: Your deductions under this section may be reduced if any of your commercial debts have been forgiven in the income year: see Subdivision 245E.

Income year when money used solely for the purpose of producing assessable income

 (2) You can deduct for an income year the maximum amount worked out under subsection (4) if you use the *borrowed money during that income year solely for the *purpose of producing assessable income.

Example: In 199798 you borrow $100,000 and incur expenditure of $1,500 for the borrowing. You use the money to buy a house. Throughout 199899 you rent the house to a tenant. You can deduct for the expenditure for 199899 the maximum amount worked out under subsection (4).

Income year when borrowed money used partly for that purpose

 (3) If you use the money only partly for that purpose during that income year, you can deduct the proportion of that maximum amount that is appropriate having regard to the extent that you used the *borrowed money for that purpose.

Note: You cannot deduct anything for that income year if you do not use the money for that purpose at all during that income year.

Maximum deduction for an income year

 (4) You work out as follows the maximum amount that you can deduct for the expenditure for an income year:

Method statement

Step 1. Work out the remaining expenditure as follows:

  For the income year in which the *period of the loan begins, it is the amount of the expenditure.

  For a later income year, it is the amount of the expenditure reduced by the maximum amount that you can deduct for the expenditure for each earlier income year.

Step 2. Work out the remaining loan period as follows:

  For the income year in which the *period of the loan begins, it is the period of the loan (as determined at the end of the income year).

  For a later income year, it is the period from the start of the income year until the end of the period of the loan (as determined at the end of the income year).

Step 3. Divide the remaining expenditure by the number of days in the remaining loan period.

Step 4. Multiply the result from Step 3 by the number of days in the remaining loan period that are in the income year.

Example: To continue the example in subsection (2): suppose the original period of the loan is 4 years starting on 1 September 1997. What is the maximum amount you can deduct for the expenditure for 199798?

 Applying the method statement:

 After Step 1: the remaining expenditure is $1,500 (the amount of the expenditure).

 After Step 2: the remaining loan period is 4 years from 1 September 1997 (1,461 days).

 After Step 3: the result is $1,500 divided by 1,461 = $1.03.

 After Step 4: the result is $1.03 multiplied by 302 days = $310.06.

 Suppose you repay the loan early, on 31 December 1998. What is the maximum amount you can deduct for the expenditure for 199899?

 Applying the method statement:

 After Step 1: the remaining expenditure is $1,500 (the amount of the expenditure) reduced by $310.06 (the maximum amount you can deduct for 199798) = $1,189.94.

 After Step 2: the remaining loan period is the period from 1 July 1998 to 31 December 1998 (183 days).

 After Step 3: the result is $1,189.94 divided by 183 days = $6.50.

 After Step 4: the result is $6.50 multiplied by 183 days = $1,189.94.

Meaning of period of the loan

 (5) The period of the loan is the shortest of these periods:

 (a) the period of the loan as specified in the original loan contract;

 (b) the period starting on the first day on which the money was borrowed and ending on the day the loan is repaid;

 (c) 5 years starting on the first day on which the money was borrowed.

When deduction not spread

 (6) If the total of the following is $100 or less:

 (a) each amount of expenditure you incur in an income year for *borrowing money you use during that income year solely for the *purpose of producing assessable income;

 (b) for each amount of expenditure you incur in that income year for borrowing money you use during that income year only partly for that purpose—the proportion of that amount that is appropriate having regard to the extent that you use the money during that income year for that purpose;

you can deduct for the income year:

 (c) each amount covered by paragraph (a); and

 (d) each proportion covered by paragraph (b).

2530  Expenses of discharging a mortgage

Mortgage for borrowed money

 (1) You can deduct expenditure you incur to discharge a mortgage that you gave as security for the repayment of money that you *borrowed if you used the money solely for the *purpose of producing assessable income.

Mortgage for property bought

 (2) You can deduct expenditure you incur to discharge a mortgage that you gave as security for the payment of the whole or part of the purchase price of property that you bought if you used the property solely for the *purpose of producing assessable income.

Money or property used partly for that purpose

 (3) If you used the money you *borrowed, or the property you bought, only partly for the *purpose of producing assessable income, you can deduct the expenditure to the extent that you used the money or property for that purpose.

No deduction for payments of principal or interest

 (4) You cannot deduct payments of principal or interest under this section.

2535  Bad debts

 (1) You can deduct a debt (or part of a debt) that you write off as bad in the income year if:

 (a) it was included in your assessable income for the income year or for an earlier income year; or

 (b) it is in respect of money that you lent in the ordinary course of your *business of lending money.

Note: If a bad debt is in respect of a payment that is required to be made under a qualifying security (within the meaning of Division 16E of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936): see subsection 63(1A) of that Act.

Writing off a debt you have bought

 (2) You can deduct a debt that you write off as bad in the income year if you bought the debt in the ordinary course of your *business of lending money. However, you cannot deduct more than the expenditure you incurred in buying the debt.

Writing off part of a debt you have bought

 (3) You can deduct a part of a debt if:

 (a) you write off that part as bad in the income year; and

 (b) you bought the debt in the ordinary course of your *business of lending money.

 (4) However, the maximum that you can deduct under subsection (3) for one or more income years is the amount (if any) by which:

  the expenditure you incurred in buying the debt;

exceeds:

  so much of the debt as has not yet been written off as bad.

Limit on deductions for bad debts under leases of luxury cars

 (4A) There is a limit to how much you can deduct under this section for debts you write off that relate to *luxury car lease payments that have become or will become liable to be made under a lease of a *car to which Division 242 (about luxury car leases) applies.

 (4B) The most you can deduct for an income year is:

  the interest for the notional loan you are taken to have made to the lessee;

reduced by:

  each amount that you have deducted, or can deduct, for an earlier income year under this section (or section 63 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936) for debts relating to *luxury car lease payments that have become or will become liable to be made under the lease.

Special rules affecting deductions under this section

 (5) The rules described in the table may affect your entitlement to deductions under this section, or may result in a deduction being reversed.

  Provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 are identified in normal text. The other provisions, in bold, are provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

 

Rules affecting deductions for bad debts

Item

For the rules about this situation:

See:

1

A company cannot deduct a bad debt if there has been a change in ownership or control of the company and the company has not satisfied the business continuity test.

Subdivisions
165C and 166C

2

A company cannot deduct a bad debt in various other cases that may involve trafficking in bad debts.

Subdivision
175C and section 63D

3

A deduction under this section is reduced if the debt is forgiven and the debtor and creditor are companies under common ownership and agree for the creditor to forgo the deduction to a specified extent.

section 24590

4

If you receive an amount as recoupment of a bad debt that you can deduct under this section, the amount may be included in your assessable income.

Subdivision
20A

5

Certain trusts cannot deduct a bad debt if there has been a change in ownership or control or an abnormal trading in their units

Divisions 266 and 267 in Schedule 2F

6

An entity that used to be a member of a consolidated group or MEC group can deduct a bad debt that used to be owed to a member of the group only if certain conditions are met

Subdivisions
709D and 719I

Note: Subsections 230180(3), (5) and (6) and 230195(3), (5) and (6) provide that in certain circumstances a deduction for a loss in relation to a financial arrangement is to be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as a deduction of a bad debt. The rules referred to in this subsection apply to that deduction.

2540  Loss from profitmaking undertaking or plan

 (1) You can deduct a loss arising from the carrying on or carrying out of a profitmaking undertaking or plan if any profit from that plan would have been included in your assessable income by section 1515 (which is about profitmaking undertakings and plans).

When section does not apply

 (2) You cannot deduct a loss under subsection (1) if the loss arises in respect of the sale of property acquired on or after 20 September 1985.

Note: If you sell property you acquired before 20 September 1985 for profitmaking by sale, you may be able to deduct a loss on the sale: see section 52 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

Notice to Commissioner

 (3) You can deduct a loss under subsection (1), insofar as it arises in respect of property, only if:

 (a) you notified the Commissioner that you acquired the property for the purpose of profitmaking by sale or for the carrying on or carrying out of any profitmaking undertaking or plan (however described); or

 (b) the Commissioner is satisfied that you acquired the property for either of those purposes.

When notice must have been given

 (4) The notice must have been given at or before the time you lodged your *income tax return:

 (a) for the income year in which you acquired the property; or

 (b) if you were not required to lodge an income tax return for that income year—for the first income year after that income year for which you were required to lodge one.

2545  Loss by theft etc.

  You can deduct a loss in respect of money if:

 (a) you discover the loss in the income year; and

 (b) the loss was caused by theft, stealing, embezzlement, larceny, defalcation or misappropriation by your employee or *agent (other than an individual you employ solely for private purposes); and

 (c) the money was included in your assessable income for the income year, or for an earlier income year.

Note: If you receive an amount as recoupment of the loss, the amount may be included in your assessable income: see Subdivision 20A.

2547  Misappropriation where a balancing adjustment event occurs

 (1) You can deduct an amount if:

 (a) a *balancing adjustment event occurs for a *depreciating asset you *held; and

 (b) your employee or *agent misappropriates (whether by theft, embezzlement, larceny or otherwise) all or part of the amount applicable to you under:

 (i) item 8 of the table in subsection 40300(2); or

 (ii) item 1, 3, 4 or 6 of the table in subsection 40305(1);

  in relation to the balancing adjustment event.

Note 1: The amount applicable to you under subsection 40300(2) or 40305(1) may be the market value of an asset or of a noncash benefit.

Note 2: If you receive an amount as recoupment of the amount misappropriated, the amount may be included in your assessable income: see Subdivision 20A.

 (2) The amount you can deduct is so much of the amount misappropriated as represents an amount applicable to you under item 8 of the table in subsection 40300(2) or item 1, 3, 4 or 6 of the table in subsection 40305(1) in relation to the *balancing adjustment event.

 (3) You can deduct the amount for the income year in which the misappropriation happens.

 (4) You must reduce the amount you can deduct under this section if your deductions for the asset have been reduced under section 4025 because of use for a purpose other than a *taxable purpose. The reduction is by the same proportion you reduce the balancing adjustment amount for the asset under section 40290.

 (4A) You must further reduce the amount you can deduct under this section if your deductions for the asset have been reduced under section 4027 (about secondhand assets in residential property). The reduction is by the same proportion you reduce the balancing adjustment amount for the asset under section 40291.

 (5) Section 170 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 does not prevent the amendment of an assessment for the purposes of giving effect to this section for an income year if:

 (a) you discover the misappropriation after you lodged your *income tax return for the income year; and

 (b) the amendment is made at any time during the period of 4 years starting immediately after you discover the misappropriation.

2550  Payments of pensions, gratuities or retiring allowances

 (1) You can deduct a payment of a pension, gratuity or retiring allowance that you make to:

 (a) an employee; or

 (b) a former employee; or

 (c) a dependant of an employee or a former employee.

 (2) However, you can deduct it only to the extent that it is made in good faith in consideration of the past services of the employee, or former employee, in any *business that you carried on for the purpose of gaining or producing assessable income.

 (3) You cannot deduct a payment under this section if you can deduct it under any other provision of this Act.

2555  Payments to associations

 (1) You can deduct a payment you make for membership of a trade, business or professional association.

Note: Alternatively, you can deduct the expense under section 81 (which is about general deductions) if you satisfy the requirements of that section.

Maximum amount—$42

 (2) However, $42 is the maximum amount you can deduct under this section for the payments that you make in the income year to any one association.

If you deduct under section 81

 (3) If you deduct a payment under section 81 (which is about general deductions) instead of this section:

 (a) the payment does not count towards the $42 limit; and

 (b) the amount that you can deduct for the payment is not limited to $42.

2560  Parliament election expenses

 (1) You can deduct expenditure you incur in contesting an election for membership of:

 (a) the Parliament of the Commonwealth; or

 (b) the Parliament of a State; or

 (c) the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory; or

 (d) the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.

Note 1: Entertainment expenses are excluded: see section 2570.

Note 2: If you receive an amount as recoupment of the expenditure, the amount may be included in your assessable income: see Subdivision 20A.

2565  Local government election expenses

 (1) You can deduct expenditure you incur in contesting an election for membership of a *local governing body, but you cannot deduct more than $1,000 per election. You deduct the expenditure for the income year in which you incur it.

 (2) However, you can deduct more than the $1,000 limit if:

 (a) you have received an amount as *recoupment of the expenditure; and

 (b) some or all of that amount is included in your assessable income for an income year; and

 (c) the total of your deductions for the election would be less than the $1,000 limit if you disregarded so much (the assessed recoupment) of the expenditure as equals the amount so included in your assessable income.

In that case:

 (d) the assessed recoupment is disregarded in applying the $1,000 limit; and

 (e) the further amount that you can deduct because of paragraph (d) is deducted for the income year referred to in paragraph (b).

Example: Chris is elected to the Bunyip Shire Council. In the 200708 income year he incurs expenditure of $1,200 in contesting the election, of which he deducts $1,000 (the limit under subsection (1)).

 In 200809, Chris receives $360 as an assessable recoupment of the expenditure. $300 of that is included in his assessable income by section 2035 (as extended by section 2050).

 Because of the assessable recoupment, $300 of the expenditure is disregarded under paragraph (2)(d) in applying the $1,000 limit. As a result, Chris’s deductions are treated as being only $700, which is less than the limit. This does not affect his original deduction for 20072008, but it means he can deduct the previously undeducted $200, for 200809 (see paragraph (2)(e)).

 This triggers a further application of section 2035 (as extended by section 2050) to include the remaining $60 of the assessable recoupment in Chris’s assessable income for 200809. His total deductions (net of recoupment included in assessable income) come to $840, which is the same as his original expenditure (net of recoupment).

Note: An amount you receive as recoupment of expenditure may be included in your assessable income as an assessable recoupment under Subdivision 20A, as ordinary income under section 65 or as statutory income under some other provision.

2570  Deduction for election expenses does not extend to entertainment

 (1) To the extent that you incur expenditure in respect of providing *entertainment, you cannot deduct it under section 2560 or 2565.

 (2) However, subsection (1) does not stop you deducting expenditure to the extent that you incur it in respect of:

 (a) providing *entertainment that is available to the public generally; or

 (b) providing food or drink to yourself, unless it would be concluded that you have a purpose of enabling or facilitating *entertainment to be provided to someone else.

2575  Rates and land taxes on premises used to produce mutual receipts

 (1) An entity can deduct these amounts it pays for premises:

 (a) rates which are annually assessed;

 (b) land tax imposed under a *State law or *Territory law.

But only if it uses the premises:

 (c) for the purpose of producing mutual receipts; or

 (d) in carrying on a *business for the purpose of producing mutual receipts; or

 (e) for the purpose of producing amounts to which section 5935 applies (amounts that would be mutual receipts but for prohibition on distributions to members or issue of MCIs); or

 (f) in carrying on a *business for the purpose of producing amounts to which section 5935 applies.

Note: If the entity receives an amount as recoupment of the rates or land tax, the amount may be included in its assessable income: see Subdivision 20A

When premises used only for deductible purposes

 (2) The entity can deduct the whole of the rates or land tax if it uses the premises only in one or more of these ways:

 (a) for the purpose of producing mutual receipts;

 (b) in carrying on a *business for the purpose of producing mutual receipts;

 (c) for the *purpose of producing assessable income.

When premises used partly for deductible purposes

 (3) If the entity uses the premises partly in one or more of the ways referred to in subsection (2) and partly in some other way, it can deduct the rates or land tax to the extent that it uses the premises in one or more of the ways referred to in that subsection.

No deduction under section 81

 (4) The entity cannot deduct the rates or land tax under section 81 (which is about general deductions).

2585  Certain returns in respect of debt interests

 (1) This section deals with a *return that an entity pays or provides on a *debt interest.

 (2) The *return is not prevented from being a *general deduction for an income year under section 81 merely because:

 (a) the return is *contingent on aspects of the economic performance (whether past, current or future) of:

 (i) the entity or a part of the entity’s activities; or

 (ii) a *connected entity of the entity or a part of the activities of a connected entity of the entity; or

 (b) the return secures a permanent or enduring benefit for the entity or a connected entity of the entity.

 (3) If the *return is a *dividend, the entity can deduct the return to the extent to which it would have been a *general deduction under section 81 if:

 (a) the payment of the return were the incurring by the entity of a liability to pay the same amount as interest; and

 (b) that interest were incurred in respect of the finance raised by the entity and in respect of which the return was paid or provided; and

 (c) the *debt interest retained its character as a debt interest for the purposes of subsection (2).

 (4) Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to a *return to the extent to which it would be a *general deduction under section 81 apart from this section.

 (4A) Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to a *return on a *debt interest that is a *Division 230 financial arrangement.

 (5) Subject to regulations made for the purposes of subsection (6), subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to the return to the extent to which the annually compounded internal rate of return exceeds the *benchmark rate of return for the interest increased by 150 basis points.

 (6) The regulations may provide that subsection (5) applies in the circumstances specified in the regulations as if the reference to 150 basis points were a reference to a greater or lesser number of basis points.

2590  Deduction relating to foreign nonassessable nonexempt income

  An *Australian entity can deduct an amount of loss or outgoing from its assessable income for an income year if:

 (a) the amount is incurred by the entity in deriving income from a foreign source; and

 (b) the income is *nonassessable nonexempt income under section 7685, or section 23AI or 23AK of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936; and

 (c) the amount is a cost in relation to a *debt interest issued by the entity that is covered by paragraph (1)(a) of the definition of debt deduction.

Note: This section does not apply to a Division 230 financial arrangement.

2595  Deduction for work in progress amounts

 (1) You can deduct a *work in progress amount that you pay for the income year in which you pay it to the extent that, as at the end of that income year:

 (a) a recoverable debt has arisen in respect of the completion or partial completion of the work to which the amount related; or

 (b) you reasonably expect a recoverable debt to arise in respect of the completion or partial completion of that work within the period of 12 months after the amount was paid.

 (2) You can deduct the remainder (if any) of the *work in progress amount for the following income year.

 (3) An amount is a work in progress amount to the extent that:

 (a) an entity agrees to pay the amount to another entity (the recipient); and

 (b) the amount can be identified as being in respect of work (but not goods) that has been partially performed by the recipient for a third entity but not yet completed to the stage where a recoverable debt has arisen in respect of the completion or partial completion of the work.

 (4) An amount does not stop being a work in progress amount merely because it is paid after a recoverable debt has arisen in respect of the completion or partial completion of the work to which the amount related.

25100  Travel between workplaces

When a deduction is allowed

 (1) If you are an individual, you can deduct a *transport expense to the extent that it is incurred in your *travel between workplaces.

Travel between workplaces

 (2) Your travel between workplaces is travel directly between 2 places, to the extent that:

 (a) while you were at the first place, you were:

 (i) engaged in activities to gain or produce your assessable income; or

 (ii) engaged in activities in the course of carrying on a *business for the purpose of gaining or producing your assessable income; and

 (b) the purpose of your travel to the second place was to:

 (i) engage in activities to gain or produce your assessable income; or

 (ii) engage in activities in the course of carrying on a business for the purpose of gaining or producing your assessable income;

  and you engaged in those activities while you were at the second place.

 (3) Travel between 2 places is not travel between workplaces if one of the places you are travelling between is a place at which you reside.

 (4) Travel between 2 places is not travel between workplaces if, at the time of your travel to the second place:

 (a) the arrangement under which you gained or produced assessable income at the first place has ceased; or

 (b) the *business in respect of which you engaged in activities at the first place has ceased.

No deduction for capital expenditure

 (5) You cannot deduct expenditure under subsection (1) to the extent that the expenditure is capital, or of a capital nature.

25110  Capital expenditure to terminate lease etc.

 (1) You can deduct an amount for capital expenditure you incur to terminate a lease or licence (including an authority, permit or quota) that results in the termination of the lease or licence if the expenditure is incurred:

 (a) in the course of carrying on a *business; or

 (b) in connection with ceasing to carry on a business.

 (2) The amount you can deduct is 20% of the expenditure:

 (a) for the income year in which the lease or licence is terminated; and

 (b) for each of the next 4 income years.

Exceptions

 (3) You cannot deduct any amount for expenditure you incur to terminate a lease that, in accordance with *accounting standards, or statements of accounting concepts made by the Australian Accounting Standards Board, is classified as a finance lease.

 (4) If you incurred the expenditure under an *arrangement and:

 (a) there is at least one other party to the arrangement with whom you did not deal at *arm’s length; and

 (b) apart from this subsection, the amount of the expenditure would be more than the *market value of what it was for (assuming the termination did not occur and was never proposed to occur);

the amount of expenditure you take into account is that market value.

 (5) You cannot deduct any amount for expenditure you incur to terminate a lease or licence if:

 (a) after the termination, you or an *associate of yours enters into another lease or licence with the same party or an associate of that party; and

 (b) the other lease or licence is of the same kind as the original one.

 (6) You cannot deduct any amount for expenditure you incur to terminate a lease or licence to the extent that the expenditure is for the granting or receipt of another lease or licence in relation to the asset that was the subject of the original lease or licence.

25115  Deduction for payment of rent from land investment by operating entity to asset entity in relation to approved economic infrastructure facility

 (1) An entity that is an *operating entity in relation to a *cross staple arrangement can deduct an amount, for an income year, of *rent from land investment if:

 (a) another entity derives or receives the amount from the operating entity:

 (i) in the income year; and

 (ii) on or after 27 March 2018; and

 (b) the cross staple arrangement was entered into in relation to:

 (i) a facility that is covered by section 12439 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 at a time in the income year; or

 (ii) an improvement to a facility that is covered by that section at a time in the income year; and

 (c) the other entity is an *asset entity in relation to the cross staple arrangement; and

 (d) apart from this subsection, the operating entity could otherwise deduct the amount under this Act; and

 (e) the amount is *excepted MIT CSA income of the asset entity for the income year; and

 (f) each entity that is a *stapled entity in relation to the cross staple arrangement has made a choice in accordance with subsection (3).

 (2) If the *asset entity is not a *managed investment trust in relation to the income year, for the purposes of paragraph (1)(e), treat it as a managed investment trust in relation to the income year.

 (3) An entity makes a choice in accordance with this subsection if:

 (a) the entity makes the choice in the *approved form; and

 (b) the entity makes the choice before:

 (i) the start of the income year in which the asset is first put to use; or

 (ii) a later time allowed by the Commissioner; and

 (c) the entity gives the choice to the Commissioner within 60 days after the entity makes the choice.

 (4) The choice cannot be revoked.

25120  Transitional—deduction for payment of rent from land investment by operating entity to asset entity

 (1) This section applies if the requirements in subsection 12440(1) or (2) in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 are satisfied in relation to a *cross staple arrangement.

 (2) An entity that is an *operating entity in relation to the *cross staple arrangement can deduct, for an income year, an amount of *rent from land investment if:

 (a) another entity derives or receives the amount from the operating entity at a time that:

 (i) is in the income year; and

 (ii) is on or after 27 March 2018; and

 (iii) meets the requirements in subsection 12440(4) of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953; and

 (b) the other entity is an *asset entity in relation to the cross staple arrangement; and

 (c) apart from this subsection, the operating entity could otherwise deduct the amount under this Act; and

 (d) the amount is *excepted MIT CSA income of the asset entity for the income year.

 (3) If the *asset entity is not a *managed investment trust in relation to the income year, for the purposes of paragraph (2)(d), treat it as a managed investment trust in relation to the income year.

Division 26Some amounts you cannot deduct, or cannot deduct in full

Guide to Division 26

261  What this Division is about

This Division sets out some amounts that you cannot deduct, or that you cannot deduct in full.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

265 Penalties

2610 Leave payments

2615 Franchise fees windfall tax

2617 Commonwealth places windfall tax

2619 Rebatable benefits

2620 Assistance to students

2622 Political contributions and gifts

2625 Interest or royalty

2625A Seasonal Labour Mobility Program

2626 Nonshare distribution and dividends

2630 Relative’s travel expenses

2631 Travel related to use of residential premises as residential accommodation

2635 Reducing deductions for amounts paid to related entities

2640 Maintaining your family

2645 Recreational club expenses

2647 Nonbusiness boating activities

2650 Expenses for a leisure facility

2652 Bribes to foreign public officials

2653 Bribes to public officials

2654 Expenditure relating to illegal activities

2655 Limit on deductions

2660 Superannuation contributions surcharge

2668 Loss from disposal of eligible venture capital investments

2670 Loss from disposal of venture capital equity

2674 Excess concessional contributions charge cannot be deducted

2675 Excess nonconcessional contributions tax cannot be deducted

2680 Financing costs on loans to pay superannuation contribution

2685 Borrowing costs on loans to pay life insurance premiums

2690 Superannuation supervisory levy

2695 Superannuation guarantee charge

2697 National Disability Insurance Scheme expenditure

2698 Division 293 tax cannot be deducted

2699 Excess transfer balance tax cannot be deducted

26100 Expenditure attributable to water infrastructure improvement payments

26102 Expenses associated with holding vacant land

26105 Noncompliant payments for work and services

Operative provisions

265  Penalties

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act:

 (a) an amount (however described) payable, by way of penalty, under an *Australian law or a *foreign law; or

 (b) an amount ordered by a court to be paid on the conviction of an entity for an offence against an *Australian law or a *foreign law.

 (2) This section does not apply to an amount payable, by way of penalty, under Subdivision 162D of the *GST Act.

Note: See paragraph 255(1)(ca) for the deductibility of penalties that arise under Subdivision 162D of the GST Act.

2610  Leave payments

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing for long service leave, annual leave, sick leave or other leave except:

 (a) an amount paid in the income year to the individual to whom the leave relates (or, if that individual has died, to that individual’s dependant or *legal personal representative); or

 (b) an *accrued leave transfer payment that is made in the income year.

 (2) An accrued leave transfer payment is a payment that an entity makes:

 (a) in respect of an individual’s leave (some or all of which accrued while the entity was required to make payments in respect of the individual’s leave, or leave the individual might take); and

 (b) when the entity is no longer required (or is about to stop being required) to make payments in respect of such leave; and

 (c) to another entity when the other entity has begun (or is about to begin) to be required to make payments in respect of such leave; and

 (d) under (or for the purposes of facilitating the provisions of) an *Australian law, or an award, order, determination or industrial agreement under an *Australian law.

It does not matter whether the leave accrues to the individual as an employee or for some other reason.

Example: Your employee goes to a new employer. You pay the new employer $2,000 for the employee’s unused long service leave because an industrial agreement requires you to make that payment.

Note: An accrued leave transfer payment is included in the assessable income of the entity to which it is made: see section 155.

2615  Franchise fees windfall tax

  You cannot deduct under this Act any tax that is imposed by the Franchise Fees Windfall Tax (Imposition) Act 1997.

2617  Commonwealth places windfall tax

  You cannot deduct under this Act any tax that is imposed by the Commonwealth Places Windfall Tax (Imposition) Act 1998.

2619  Rebatable benefits

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing to the extent that the loss or outgoing is incurred in gaining or producing a rebatable benefit (within the meaning of section 160AAA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936).

 (2) To the extent that you use property in gaining or producing a rebatable benefit, your use of the property is taken not to be for the *purpose of producing assessable income if subsection (1) would stop you deducting a loss or outgoing if you incurred it in the income year in gaining or producing the rebatable benefit.

Note: Under some provisions of this Act, in order to deduct an amount for your property, you must have used the property for the purpose of producing assessable income.

2620  Assistance to students

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act:

 (ca) a student contribution amount within the meaning of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 paid to a higher education provider (within the meaning of that Act); or

 (cb) a payment made to reduce a debt to the Commonwealth under Chapter 4 of that Act; or

 (cba) a payment made to reduce a debt to the Commonwealth under Part 3A of the VET Student Loans Act 2016; or

 (cc) a payment made to reduce a debt to the Commonwealth under Chapter 2AA of the Social Security Act 1991 or Part 2 of the Student Assistance Act 1973; or

 (cd) a payment made to reduce a debt to the Commonwealth under Chapter 3 of the Trade Support Loans Act 2014; or

 (ce) a payment made to reduce a liability to overseas debtors repayment levy under the Student Loans (Overseas Debtors Repayment Levy) Act 2015; or

 (d) a payment made to reduce a debt to the Commonwealth, or to a participating corporation, under Chapter 2B of the Social Security Act 1991 or Part 4A of the Student Assistance Act 1973.

Exception when you provide a fringe benefit

 (2) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting expenditure you incur in *providing a *fringe benefit.

2622  Political contributions and gifts

You cannot deduct political contributions or gifts

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act (other than Subdivision 30DA):

 (a) a contribution (including a membership fee) or gift to a political party that is registered under Part XI of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 or under corresponding State or Territory legislation; or

 (b) a contribution or gift to an individual when the individual is a candidate in an election for members of:

 (i) an *Australian legislature; or

 (ii) a *local governing body; or

 (c) a contribution or gift to an individual who is a member of:

 (i) an Australian legislature; or

 (ii) a local governing body.

Exception for employees and office holders

 (2) However, subsection (1) does not apply to a loss or outgoing incurred in gaining or producing assessable income from which an amount is required to be withheld under section 1235 or 1245 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

Note: These provisions of the Taxation Administration Act 1953 require amounts to be withheld from income of employees and office holders.

Starting and stopping being a candidate

 (3) For the purposes of this section, an individual:

 (a) starts being a candidate when the individual’s intention to be or to attempt to be a candidate for the election is publicly available; and

 (b) stops being a candidate at the earlier of:

 (i) the time when the result of the election is declared or otherwise publicly announced by an entity (an electoral official) authorised under the relevant electoral legislation; and

 (ii) the time (if any) when the individual’s intention to no longer be a candidate for the election is publicly available.

Starting being a member

 (4) An individual who becomes a member as a result of an election (including an election that is later declared void) is taken to start being a member when the individual’s election as a member is declared or otherwise publicly announced by an electoral official.

2625  Interest or royalty

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act interest (within the meaning of Division 11A of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936) or a *royalty if:

 (a) Subdivision 12F in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 requires you to withhold an amount from the interest or royalty; and

 (b) either:

 (i) you fail to withhold the amount; or

 (ii) after withholding the amount, you fail to comply with section 1670 in that Schedule in relation to that amount.

 (2) You cannot deduct under this Act interest (within the meaning of Division 11A of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936), or a *royalty, that is in the form of a *noncash benefit if:

 (a) section 145 or 1410 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 requires you to pay an amount to the Commissioner before providing the benefit, because of Subdivision 12F in that Schedule; and

 (b) you fail to pay the amount as required by that section.

 (3) If:

 (a) apart from subsection (1) or (2), you can deduct interest (within the meaning of Division 11A of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936) or a *royalty for an income year; and

 (b) the *withholding tax payable for the interest or the royalty is paid;

you can deduct the interest or royalty for that income year.

2625A  Seasonal Labour Mobility Program

No deduction to extent amount not withheld

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act salary, wages, commission, bonuses or allowances from which Subdivision 12FC in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 (about the Seasonal Labour Mobility Program) requires you to withhold an amount, to the extent that:

 (a) you fail to withhold the amount; or

 (b) after withholding the amount, you fail to comply with section 1670 in that Schedule in relation to that amount.

Note: Section 1670 in that Schedule requires you to pay the amount to the Commissioner.

Deduction to extent amount not withheld but withholding tax paid

 (2) You can deduct, for an income year, salary, wages, commission, bonuses or allowances to the extent that:

 (a) you cannot deduct the salary, wages, commission, bonuses or allowances for that income year only because of subsection (1) of this section; and

 (b) the *Seasonal Labour Mobility Program withholding tax payable for the salary, wages, commission, bonuses or allowance is paid.

2626  Nonshare distributions and dividends

 (1) A company cannot deduct under this Act:

 (a) a *nonshare distribution; or

 (b) a return that has accrued on a *nonshare equity interest.

 (2) A company cannot deduct a *dividend paid on an *equity interest in the company as a *general deduction under this Act.

2630  Relative’s travel expenses

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing you incur, insofar as it is attributable to your *relative’s travel, if:

 (a) you travelled in the course of performing your duties as an employee, or in the course of carrying on a *business for the purpose of gaining or producing your assessable income; and

 (b) your relative accompanied you while you travelled.

Exception to subsection (1)

 (2) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing if:

 (a) your *relative, while accompanying you, performed substantial duties as your employer’s employee, or as your employee; and

 (b) it is reasonable to conclude that your relative would still have accompanied you even if he or she had not had a personal relationship with you.

Exception when you provide a fringe benefit

 (3) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting expenditure you incur in *providing a *fringe benefit.

This section also applies to individuals who are not employees

 (4) If an individual is not an employee, but receives, or is entitled to receive, *withholding payments covered by subsection (6), this section applies to the individual as if:

 (a) he or she were an employee; and

 (b) the entity, who pays (or is liable to pay) *withholding payments covered by subsection (6) that result in the individual being in receipt of, or entitled to receive, such payments, were the individual’s employer; and

 (c) any other individual who receives (or is entitled to receive) *withholding payments covered by subsection (6):

 (i) that result in that other individual being in receipt of, or entitled to receive, such payments; and

 (ii) that the entity pays (or is liable to pay) to that other individual;

  were an employee of the entity.

This section also applies to entities who are not employers

 (5) If an entity is not an employer, but pays (or is liable to pay) *withholding payments covered by subsection (6), this section applies to the entity as if:

 (a) it were an employer; and

 (b) an individual to whom the entity pays (or is liable to pay) such withholding payments were the entity’s employee.

Withholding payments covered

 (6) This subsection covers:

 (a) a *withholding payment covered by any of the provisions in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 listed in the table; and

 (b) a withholding payment covered by section 1247 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 where:

 (i) the payment is made to a religious practitioner by a religious institution; and

 (ii) the activity, or series of activities, for which the payment is made is done by the religious practitioner as a member of the religious institution.

 

Withholding payments covered

Item

Provision

Subject matter

1

Section 1240

Payment to company director

2

Section 1245

Payment to office holder

3

Section 1250

Return to work payment

4

Subdivision 12D

Benefit, training and compensation payments

2631  Travel related to use of residential premises as residential accommodation

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing you incur, insofar as it is related to travel, if:

 (a) it is incurred in gaining or producing your assessable income from the use of *residential premises as residential accommodation; and

 (b) it is not necessarily incurred in carrying on a *business for the purpose of gaining or producing your assessable income.

Exception—kind of entity

 (2) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing if, at any time during the income year in which the loss or outgoing is incurred, you are:

 (a) a *corporate tax entity; or

 (b) a *superannuation plan that is not a *self managed superannuation fund; or

 (c) a *managed investment trust; or

 (d) a public unit trust (within the meaning of section 102P of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936); or

 (e) a unit trust or partnership, if each *member of the trust or partnership is covered by a paragraph of this subsection at that time during the income year.

2635  Reducing deductions for amounts paid to related entities

You can only deduct reasonable amounts paid to related entities

 (1) If, under another provision of this Act, you can deduct an amount for a payment you make, or for a liability you incur, to a *related entity, then you can only deduct so much of the amount as the Commissioner considers reasonable.

Note: This section has a special operation if the payment is made, or the liability is incurred, by a partnership in which a private company is a partner: see section 65 (Payments to associated persons and relatives) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.

Meaning of related entity

 (2) A related entity is any of the following:

 (a) your *relative; or

 (b) a partnership in which your relative is a partner.

 (3) In the case of a partnership, a related entity is any of the following:

 (a) a *relative of a partner in the partnership;

 (b) an individual who is or has been a director of a company that is a partner in the partnership and is a *private company for the income year;

 (c) an entity that is or has been a shareholder in a company of that kind;

 (d) a *relative of an individual who is or has been a director or shareholder of a company of that kind;

 (e) a beneficiary of a trust if the trustee is a partner in the partnership;

 (f) a *relative of a beneficiary of a trust if the trustee is a partner in the partnership;

 (g) another partnership, if a partner in the other partnership is a *relative of a partner in the first partnership.

However, a partner in a partnership is not a related entity of the partnership.

If you can’t deduct, then related entity doesn’t include amount as income

 (4) To the extent that subsection (1) stops you deducting an amount, the amount is neither assessable income, nor exempt income, of the *related entity.

2640  Maintaining your family

  You cannot deduct under this Act expenditure you incur for maintaining:

 (a) your *spouse (except a spouse permanently living separately and apart from you); or

 (b) your *child who is under 16 years.

Example: A farmer cannot deduct an amount for food or lodgings that the farmer provides to his or her child who is under 16 years for the work the child performs on the farm.

2645  Recreational club expenses

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing to the extent you incur it to obtain or maintain:

 (a) membership of a *recreational club; or

 (b) rights to enjoy (otherwise than as a *member) facilities provided by a *recreational club for the use or benefit of its *members;

whether for yourself or someone else.

Meaning of recreational club

 (2) A recreational club is a company that was established or is carried on mainly to provide facilities, for the use or benefit of its *members, for drinking, dining, *recreation or entertainment.

Exception when you provide a fringe benefit

 (3) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting expenditure you incur in *providing a *fringe benefit.

2647  Nonbusiness boating activities

Object

 (1) The object of this section is to improve the integrity of the taxation system by preventing deductions from boating activities that are not carried on as a *business being offset against other assessable income.

Rule

 (2) This Act applies to you as if so much of the amounts relating to using or *holding boats that you could otherwise deduct for an income year as exceeds your assessable income from using or holding boats for that year:

 (a) were not deductible for that income year; and

 (b) were an amount (a quarantined amount) relating to using or holding boats that you can deduct for the next income year.

Note: A quarantined amount may be reduced under subsection (5) (for boat capital gains), reduced under subsection (7) (where you deduct part of a quarantined amount under subsection (6) for boat business profits), reduced under subsection (8) (about exempt income) or affected by subsection (10) (about bankruptcy).

Example: Ian does not use his boat in a business. In Year 1, Ian would be able to claim $100,000 in deductions for the boat (but for this subsection), including interest, depreciation and running costs. He earns only $40,000 of income from the boat. He can only deduct $40,000. He carries the remaining $60,000 forward to Year 2 (the quarantined amount).

In Year 2, Ian has $95,000 of expenses and $30,000 of income for the boat. He can deduct $30,000. The quarantined amount is now $125,000: the quarantined amount from Year 1 plus the excess of expenses over income from Year 2.

In Year 3, Ian has $60,000 of expenses and $150,000 of income from the boat. The expenses from Year 3 plus the quarantined amount is $185,000. Therefore, Ian claims a deduction of $150,000 and carries forward $35,000 to Year 4.

Exception: business use

 (3) The rule in subsection (2) does not apply to amounts that are attributable to one or more of the following:

 (a) *holding a boat as your *trading stock;

 (b) using a boat (or holding it) mainly for letting it on hire in the ordinary course of a *business that you carry on;

 (c) using a boat (or holding it) mainly for transporting the public or goods for payment in the ordinary course of a business that you carry on;

 (d) using a boat for a purpose that is essential to the efficient conduct of a business that you carry on.

Note: Even if this exception applies to you, you may still have to quarantine losses under Division 35 (deferral of losses from noncommercial business activities).

Exception: fringe benefits

 (4) The rule in subsection (2) does not apply to so much of an amount you incur in *providing a *fringe benefit.

Modification if you have boat capital gains

 (5) You reduce a quarantined amount you have for an income year by so much of that amount as is applied under section 11880 to reduce a *capital gain you have for the year in relation to a boat. You make this reduction before you deduct an amount under subsection (6).

Deduction if you have boat business profits

 (6) You can deduct all or part of your remaining quarantined amount for an income year if your assessable income for the year from activities of a kind referred to in subsection (3) exceeds your deductions for the year relating to those activities. The amount you can deduct is the lesser of that excess and that remaining quarantined amount.

 (7) You reduce your quarantined amount for the year by the amount you deduct. You make this reduction before a reduction under subsection (8).

Modification if you have exempt income

 (8) You reduce any remaining quarantined amount you have for an income year by your *net exempt income for that year (after *utilising the net exempt income under section 3515 (about noncommercial business activities) or section 3610 or 3615 (about tax losses)).

Modification if you become bankrupt

 (9) The modification in subsection (10) has effect if:

 (a) in an income year (the current year) you become bankrupt or are released from a debt by the operation of an Act relating to bankruptcy; or

 (b) you became bankrupt before the current year and:

 (i) the bankruptcy is annulled in the current year under section 74 of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 because your creditors have accepted a proposal for a composition or scheme of arrangement; and

 (ii) under the composition or scheme of arrangement, you have been, will be or may be released from some or all of the debts from which you would have been released if you had instead been discharged from the bankruptcy.

 (10) This Act applies to you as if any amount that:

 (a) is a quarantined amount for you for the current year or was a quarantined amount for you for an earlier year; and

 (b) has not been applied under section 11880 and that you have not yet deducted;

were not an amount relating to using or holding boats that you can deduct for the current year or a later year.

2650  Expenses for a leisure facility

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing to the extent you incur it:

 (a) to acquire ownership of a *leisure facility; or

 (b) to retain ownership of a leisure facility; or

 (c) to acquire rights to use a leisure facility; or

 (d) to retain rights to use a leisure facility; or

 (e) to use, operate, maintain or repair a leisure facility; or

 (f) in relation to any obligation associated with your ownership of a leisure facility; or

 (g) in relation to any obligation associated with your rights to use a leisure facility.

However, there are exceptions (see subsections (3), (4) and (8)).

What is a leisure facility?

 (2) A leisure facility is land, a building, or part of a building or other structure, that is used (or held for use) for holidays or *recreation.

Exception—leisure facilities

 (3) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing for a *leisure facility if at all times in the income year:

 (a) you hold the leisure facility for sale in the ordinary course of your business of selling leisure facilities; or

 (b) you use the leisure facility (or hold it for use) mainly to provide it:

 (i) in the ordinary course of your *business of providing leisure facilities for payment; or

 (ii) to produce your assessable income in the nature of rents, lease premiums, licence fees or similar charges; or

 (iii) for your employees to use; or

 (iv) for the care of your employees’ *children.

In the case of a company, subparagraphs (b)(iii) and (iv) do not apply to employees who are *members or directors of the company.

Exception—part year use of leisure facilities

 (4) If you use a *leisure facility (or hold it) as described in subsection (3) at all times during part of the income year, then subsection (1) does not stop you deducting so much of the loss or outgoing as is reasonable in the circumstances.

Antiavoidance—when exceptions do not apply

 (7) A *leisure facility is taken not to be used (or held) as described in subsection (3) if:

 (a) apart from this subsection, the leisure facility would be used (or held) in that way because of a *scheme; and

 (b) in the Commissioner’s opinion, the scheme would not have been entered into or carried out if this section had not been enacted.

Exception when you provide a fringe benefit

 (8) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting expenditure you incur in *providing a *fringe benefit.

2652  Bribes to foreign public officials

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing you incur that is a *bribe to a foreign public official.

 (2) An amount is a bribe to a foreign public official to the extent that:

 (a) you incur the amount in, or in connection with:

 (i) providing a benefit to another person; or

 (ii) causing a benefit to be provided to another person; or

 (iii) offering to provide, or promising to provide, a benefit to another person; or

 (iv) causing an offer of the provision of a benefit, or a promise of the provision of a benefit, to be made to another person; and

 (b) the benefit is not legitimately due to the other person (see subsection (6)); and

 (c) you incur the amount with the intention of influencing a *foreign public official (who may or may not be the other person) in the exercise of the official’s duties as a foreign public official in order to:

 (i) obtain or retain business; or

 (ii) obtain or retain an advantage in the conduct of business that is not legitimately due to you, or another person, as the recipient, or intended recipient, of the advantage in the conduct of business (see subsection (7)).

The benefit may be any advantage and is not limited to property.

 (2A) For the purposes of subsection (2), disregard whether business, or a business advantage, was actually obtained or retained.

Payments that written law of foreign public official’s country requires or permits

 (3) An amount is not a bribe to a foreign public official if, assuming the benefit had been provided, and all related acts had been done, in the *foreign public official’s country, a written law of that country would have required or permitted the provision of the benefit.

Facilitation payments

 (4) An amount is not a bribe to a foreign public official if:

 (a) the value of the benefit is of a minor nature; and

 (b) the amount is incurred for the sole or dominant purpose of expediting or securing the performance of a routine government action of a minor nature.

 (5) For the purposes of this section, a routine government action is an action of a *foreign public official that:

 (a) is ordinarily and commonly performed by the official; and

 (b) is covered by any of the following subparagraphs:

 (i) granting a permit, licence or other official document that qualifies a person to do business in a foreign country or in a part of a foreign country;

 (ii) processing government papers such as a visa or work permit;

 (iii) providing police protection or mail collection or delivery;

 (iv) scheduling inspections associated with contract performance or related to the transit of goods;

 (v) providing telecommunications services, power or water;

 (vi) loading and unloading cargo;

 (vii) protecting perishable products, or commodities, from deterioration;

 (viii) any other action of a similar nature; and

 (c) does not involve a decision about:

 (i) whether to award new business; or

 (ii) whether to continue existing business with a particular person; or

 (iii) the terms of new business or existing business; and

 (d) does not involve encouraging a decision about:

 (i) whether to award new business; or

 (ii) whether to continue existing business with a particular person; or

 (iii) the terms of new business or existing business.

Benefit not legitimately due

 (6) In working out if a benefit is not legitimately due to another person in a particular situation, disregard the following:

 (a) the fact that the benefit may be, or be perceived to be, customary, necessary or required in the situation;

 (b) the value of the benefit;

 (c) any official tolerance of the benefit.

Advantage in the conduct of business that is not legitimately due

 (7) In working out if an advantage in the conduct of business is not legitimately due in a particular situation, disregard the following:

 (a) the fact that the advantage may be customary, or perceived to be customary, in the situation;

 (b) the value of the advantage;

 (c) any official tolerance of the advantage.

Duties of foreign public official

 (8) The duties of a *foreign public official are any authorities, duties, functions or powers that:

 (a) are conferred on the official; or

 (b) the official holds himself or herself out as having.

2653  Bribes to public officials

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing you incur that is a *bribe to a public official.

 (2) An amount is a bribe to a public official to the extent that:

 (a) you incur the amount in, or in connection with:

 (i) providing a benefit to another person; or

 (ii) causing a benefit to be provided to another person; or

 (iii) offering to provide, or promising to provide, a benefit to another person; or

 (iv) causing an offer of the provision of a benefit, or a promise of the provision of a benefit, to be made to another person; and

 (b) the benefit is not legitimately due to the other person (see subsection (3)); and

 (c) you incur the amount with the intention of influencing a *public official (who may or may not be the other person) in the exercise of the official’s duties as a public official in order to:

 (i) obtain or retain business; or

 (ii) obtain or retain an advantage in the conduct of business that is not legitimately due to you, or another person, as the recipient, or intended recipient, of the advantage in the conduct of business (see subsection (4)).

The benefit may be any advantage and is not limited to property.

Benefit not legitimately due

 (3) In working out if a benefit is not legitimately due to another person in a particular situation, disregard the following:

 (a) the fact that the benefit may be customary, or perceived to be customary, in the situation;

 (b) the value of the benefit;

 (c) any official tolerance of the benefit.

Advantage in the conduct of business that is not legitimately due

 (4) In working out if an advantage in the conduct of business is not legitimately due in a particular situation, disregard the following:

 (a) the fact that the advantage may be customary, or perceived to be customary, in the situation;

 (b) the value of the advantage;

 (c) any official tolerance of the advantage.

Duties of public official

 (5) The duties of a *public official are any authorities, duties, functions or powers that:

 (a) are conferred on the official; or

 (b) the official holds himself or herself out as having.

2654  Expenditure relating to illegal activities

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing to the extent that it was incurred in the furtherance of, or directly in relation to, a physical element of an offence against an *Australian law of which you have been convicted if the offence was, or could have been, prosecuted on indictment.

 (2) Despite section 170 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, the Commissioner may amend your assessment at any time within 4 years after you are convicted of the relevant offence for the purpose of giving effect to subsection (1) of this section.

2655  Limit on deductions

 (1) There is a limit on the total of the amounts you can deduct for the income year under these provisions:

 (a) section 2550 (which is about payments of pensions, gratuities or retiring allowances) of this Act;

 (ba) Division 30 (which is about deductions for gifts or contributions) of this Act;

 (bb) Division 31 (which is about deductions for conservation covenants) of this Act;

 (d) section 290150 (which is about deductions for personal superannuation contributions).

Do not include in the total an amount that you could also deduct under another provision of this Act, apart from section 810 (which prevents double deductions).

 (2) The limit is worked out by subtracting from your assessable income all your deductions except:

 (a) *tax losses; and

See Division 36 (which is about tax losses of earlier income years).

 (c) the amount you can deduct for the income year under section 3935 (which provides for deductions for making *farm management deposits).

2660  Superannuation contributions surcharge

  You cannot deduct under this Act:

 (a) a superannuation contributions surcharge within the meaning of the Superannuation Contributions Tax (Assessment and Collection) Act 1997; or

 (b) a superannuation contributions surcharge within the meaning of the Superannuation Contributions Tax (Members of Constitutionally Protected Superannuation Funds) Assessment and Collection Act 1997.

2668  Loss from disposal of eligible venture capital investments

Partners in VCLPs and ESVCLPs

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act your share of a loss made from the disposal or other realisation of an *eligible venture capital investment if:

 (a) it is made by a *VCLP, or an *ESVCLP, that is *unconditionally registered; and

 (b) were that disposal or other realisation to be a *disposal of a *CGT asset, your share of any *capital gain or *capital loss would be disregarded under section 118405 or 118407.

Partners in AFOFs

 (2) You cannot deduct under this Act your share of a loss made from the disposal or other realisation of an *eligible venture capital investment if:

 (a) it is made by:

 (i) an *AFOF that is *unconditionally registered; or

 (ii) a *VCLP, or an *ESVCLP, that is unconditionally registered and in which an AFOF that is *unconditionally registered is a partner; and

 (b) were that disposal or other realisation to be a *disposal of a *CGT asset, your share of any *capital gain or *capital loss would be disregarded under section 118410.

Eligible venture capital investors

 (3) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss made from the disposal or other realisation of an *eligible venture capital investment if:

 (a) you are an *eligible venture capital investor; and

 (b) were that disposal or other realisation to be a *disposal of a *CGT asset, any *capital gain or *capital loss would be disregarded under section 118415.

2670  Loss from disposal of venture capital equity

  You cannot deduct under this Act a loss made from the disposal or other realisation of *venture capital equity in a *resident investment vehicle if:

 (a) it is made by a *venture capital entity or a *limited partnership referred to in subsection 118515(2); and

 (b) if that disposal or other realisation were a *disposal of a *CGT asset, any *capital gain or *capital loss would be disregarded under Subdivision 118G.

2674  Excess concessional contributions charge cannot be deducted

  You cannot deduct under this Act an amount of *excess concessional contributions charge that you pay.

2675  Excess nonconcessional contributions tax cannot be deducted

  You cannot deduct under this Act an amount of *excess nonconcessional contributions tax that you pay.

2680  Financing costs on loans to pay superannuation contribution

 (1) You can only deduct under this Act a *financing cost connected with a contribution you make to a *superannuation plan if you can deduct the contribution under Subdivision 290B.

 (2) A financing cost connected with a contribution is expenditure incurred to the extent that it relates to obtaining finance to make the contribution, including:

 (a) interest, and payments in the nature of interest; and

 (b) expenses of borrowing.

2685  Borrowing costs on loans to pay life insurance premiums

 (1) You can only deduct under this Act interest on, or other expenses associated with, money you borrow to pay a premium for a *life insurance policy if:

 (a) the *risk component of the premium received by the insurer is the entire amount of the premium; and

 (b) each amount the insurer is liable to pay under the policy would be included in your assessable income if it were paid.

 (2) The risk component of a premium for a *life insurance policy means the amount of the premium worked out on the basis specified in the regulations.

2690  Superannuation supervisory levy

  You cannot deduct under this Act so much of a levy imposed by the Superannuation (Self Managed Superannuation Funds) Supervisory Levy Imposition Act 1991 as represents the late lodgment amount (within the meaning of section 6 of that Act).

2695  Superannuation guarantee charge

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a charge imposed by the Superannuation Guarantee Charge Act 1992.

 (2) However, if the charge relates to a *superannuation guarantee shortfall for which you qualify for an amnesty under section 74 of the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992, this section does not apply to a payment that:

 (a) is made, under that Act, during the amnesty period (within the meaning of subsection 74(3) of that Act); and

 (b) is made in relation to the charge, whether or not the Commissioner applies the payment to satisfy your liability to pay the charge;

except to the extent that the payment, when taken together with any other such payments made in relation to the charge, exceeds the amount paid as a result of a disclosure to which paragraph 74(1)(a) of that Act applies in relation to the shortfall.

2697  National Disability Insurance Scheme expenditure

  A participant (within the meaning of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013) cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing to the extent the loss or outgoing is funded (including funded by way of reimbursement) by an *NDIS amount the participant *derives.

2698  Division 293 tax cannot be deducted

  You cannot deduct under this Act any of the following:

 (a) an amount of *Division 293 tax that you pay;

 (b) an amount of *debt account discharge liability that you pay.

2699  Excess transfer balance tax cannot be deducted

  You cannot deduct under this Act an amount of *excess transfer balance tax that you pay.

26100  Expenditure attributable to water infrastructure improvement payments

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act *SRWUIP expenditure if the matching *SRWUIP payment is, or is reasonably expected to be, *nonassessable nonexempt income (whether for you or for another entity) under section 5965.

 (2) SRWUIP expenditure, in respect of a *SRWUIP program, is expenditure that:

 (a) you incur that satisfies an obligation under an *arrangement under the program; and

 (b) is, or is reasonably expected to be, matched by a *SRWUIP payment in respect of the program.

 (3) However, treat the expenditure as if it had never been SRWUIP expenditure if it is no longer reasonable to expect that the expenditure will be matched by a *SRWUIP payment in respect of the program.

26102  Expenses associated with holding vacant land

Limit on deduction

 (1) If:

 (a) at a particular time, you incur a loss or outgoing relating to holding land (including interest or any other ongoing costs of borrowing to acquire the land); and

 (b) at the earlier of the following (the critical time):

 (i) that time;

 (ii) if you have ceased to hold the land—the time just before you ceased to hold the land;

  there is no substantial and permanent structure in use or available for use on the land having a purpose that is independent of, and not incidental to, the purpose of any other structure or proposed structure;

you can only deduct under this Act the loss or outgoing to the extent that the land is in use, or available for use, in carrying on a business covered by subsection (2) at the time applying under subsection (3).

Note 1: The ordinary meaning of structure includes a building and anything else built or constructed.

Note 2: The land need not be all of the land under a land title.

 (2) A *business is covered by this subsection if the business is carried on for the purpose of gaining or producing the assessable income of one or more of the following entities:

 (a) you;

 (b) your *affiliate, or an entity of which you are an affiliate;

 (c) if you are an individual—your *spouse, or any of your *children who is under 18 years of age;

 (d) an entity *connected with you.

 (3) The time applying under this subsection is the critical time unless:

 (a) the business referred to in subsection (1) ceases before the critical time; and

 (b) the loss or outgoing is otherwise deductible because of the use or availability for use of the land at an earlier time or during an earlier period; and

 (c) at that earlier time or during that earlier period the land was in use or available for use in carrying on that business;

in which case the time applying under this subsection is that earlier time or the end of that earlier period.

Disregard certain residential premises if not rented etc.

 (4) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), treat a building as not being a substantial and permanent structure if it is *residential premises constructed, or *substantially renovated, while you hold the land unless:

 (a) the residential premises are lawfully able to be occupied; and

 (b) the residential premises are:

 (i) leased, hired or licensed; or

 (ii) available for lease, hire or licence.

Note: If all of the structures on the land are disregarded under this subsection, then subsection (1) may deny you a deduction for a loss or outgoing relating to the land.

Exception—kind of entity

 (5) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing if, at any time during the income year in which the loss or outgoing is incurred, you are:

 (a) a *corporate tax entity; or

 (b) a *superannuation plan that is not a *self managed superannuation fund; or

 (c) a *managed investment trust; or

 (d) a public unit trust (within the meaning of section 102P of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936); or

 (e) a unit trust or partnership, if each *member of the trust or partnership is covered by a paragraph of this subsection at that time during the income year.

Exception—structures affected by natural disasters or other exceptional circumstances

 (6) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing relating to holding land if:

 (a) had an earlier time been the critical time (see paragraph (1)(b)), paragraph (1)(b) would not have applied to you for the land because of the existence at that earlier time of a substantial and permanent structure on the land; and

 (b) after that earlier time, paragraph (1)(b):

 (i) began to apply to you for the land wholly or mainly because of a circumstance affecting that structure; and

 (ii) continued to do so at the critical time; and

 (c) the circumstance was exceptional and beyond the reasonable control of you, and of all the entities referred to in paragraphs (2)(b), (c) and (d); and

 (d) the critical time happened before:

 (i) the third anniversary of the time paragraph (1)(b) began to apply to you for the land as described in subparagraph (b)(i) of this subsection; or

 (ii) such later time as the Commissioner allows.

 (7) If subsection (6) applies to you and you deduct the loss or outgoing, you must keep written records of:

 (a) the circumstance; and

 (b) the circumstance’s effect on the affected structure;

until the fifth anniversary of the end of the income year in which you incurred the loss or outgoing.

Note: There is an administrative penalty if you fail to keep these records (see section 28825 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953).

Exception—land held by primary producers

 (8) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing relating to holding land if, at the critical time (see paragraph (1)(b)):

 (a) the land is under lease, hire or licence to another entity; and

 (b) you are, or an entity referred to in paragraph (2)(b), (c) or (d) is, carrying on a *primary production business; and

 (c) the land does not contain *residential premises; and

 (d) residential premises are not being constructed on the land.

Exception—land in use or available for use in carrying on a business

 (9) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing relating to holding land if, at the critical time (see paragraph (1)(b)):

 (a) the land is under lease, hire or licence to another entity as a result of a dealing at *arm’s length; and

 (b) the land is in use, or available for use, in carrying on a *business; and

 (c) the land does not contain *residential premises; and

 (d) residential premises are not being constructed on the land.

26105  Noncompliant payments for work and services

No deduction if amount not withheld or Commissioner not notified

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a payment if:

 (a) any of the following provisions in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 require you to withhold an amount from the payment:

 (i) section 1235 (about payments to employees);

 (ii) section 1240 (about payments to directors);

 (iii) section 1247 (about payments to *religious practitioners);

 (iv) section 1260 (about payments under labour hire and certain other arrangements);

 (v) in relation to a *supply, other than a supply referred to in subsection (3) of this section—section 12190 (about quoting of *ABN); and

 (b) either:

 (i) you fail to withhold an amount (whether or not that amount is the amount required to be withheld as mentioned in paragraph (a)) from the payment; or

 (ii) after withholding the amount from the payment, you fail to comply, or purportedly comply, with section 16150 or 3895 (as the case requires) in that Schedule, in relation to the amount.

 (2) You cannot deduct under this Act a *noncash benefit if:

 (a) section 145 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 requires you to pay an amount to the Commissioner before providing the benefit, because of any of the following provisions in that Schedule:

 (i) section 1235 (about payments to employees);

 (ii) section 1240 (about payments to directors);

 (iii) section 1247 (about payments to *religious practitioners);

 (iv) section 1260 (about payments under labour hire and certain other arrangements);

 (v) in relation to a *supply, other than a supply referred to in subsection (3) of this section—section 12190 (about quoting of *ABN); and

 (b) you fail to comply, or purportedly comply, with section 16150 in that Schedule in relation to the amount.

 (3) For the purposes of subparagraphs (1)(a)(v) and (2)(a)(v), the supplies are supplies that are wholly a *supply of either or both of the following:

 (a) a supply of goods (within the meaning of section 1951 of the *GST Act);

 (b) a supply of real property (within the meaning of that section of that Act).

Exception—nil amounts

 (4) Subsection (1) or (2) does not apply if the amount required to be withheld, or the amount required to be paid to the Commissioner, (as the case requires) is a nil amount.

Exception—ABN quoted

 (5) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to an amount required to be withheld from a payment under section 1235 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953, if:

 (a) when the payment is made, you have been given:

 (i) an *invoice or some other document that relates to the payment that *quotes the individual’s *ABN; or

 (ii) if the payment relates to a *supply that has been made through an *agent—an invoice or some other document that relates to the payment that quotes the agent’s ABN; or

 (b) when the payment is made:

 (i) you have been given an invoice or some other document that relates to the payment that purports to quote the individual’s ABN; and

 (ii) the individual does not have an ABN, or the invoice or other document does not in fact quote the individual’s ABN; and

 (iii) you have no reasonable grounds to believe that the individual does not have an ABN, or that the invoice or other document does not quote the individual’s ABN; or

 (c) if the payment relates to a supply that has been made through an agent—when the payment is made:

 (i) you have been given an invoice or some other document that relates to the payment that purports to quote the agent’s ABN; and

 (ii) the agent does not have an ABN, or the invoice or other document does not in fact quote the agent’s ABN; and

 (iii) you have no reasonable grounds to believe that the agent does not have an ABN, or that the invoice or other document does not quote the agent’s ABN.

 (6) Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a *noncash benefit that requires an amount to be paid to the Commissioner, if:

 (a) when the noncash benefit is provided, you have been given:

 (i) an *invoice or some other document that relates to the noncash benefit that *quotes the individual’s *ABN; or

 (ii) if the noncash benefit relates to a *supply that has been made through an *agent—an invoice or some other document that relates to the noncash benefit that quotes the agent’s ABN; or

 (b) when the noncash benefit is provided:

 (i) you have been given an invoice or some other document that relates to the noncash benefit that purports to quote the individual’s ABN; and

 (ii) the individual does not have an ABN, or the invoice or other document does not in fact quote the individual’s ABN; and

 (iii) you have no reasonable grounds to believe that the individual does not have an ABN, or that the invoice or other document does not quote the individual’s ABN; or

 (c) if the noncash benefit relates to a supply that has been made through an agent—when the noncash benefit is provided:

 (i) you have been given an invoice or some other document that relates to the noncash benefit that purports to quote the agent’s ABN; and

 (ii) the agent does not have an ABN, or the invoice or other document does not in fact quote the agent’s ABN; and

 (iii) you have no reasonable grounds to believe that the agent does not have an ABN, or that the invoice or other document does not quote the agent’s ABN.

Exception—voluntarily tell the Commissioner about a mistake

 (7) Subsection (1) does not apply if, before the Commissioner tells you that an examination is to be made of your affairs relating to a *taxation law for a relevant period, you voluntarily tell the Commissioner, in the *approved form, that you have failed to:

 (a) withhold an amount; or

 (b) comply with section 16150 or 3895 (as the case requires) in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 in relation to the amount.

 (8) Subsection (2) does not apply if, before the Commissioner tells you that an examination is to be made of your affairs relating to a *taxation law for a relevant period, you voluntarily tell the Commissioner, in the *approved form, that you have failed to comply with section 16150 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 in relation to the amount.

Division 27Effect of input tax credits etc. on deductions

Table of Subdivisions

 Guide to Division 27

27A General

27B Effect of input tax credits etc. on capital allowances

Guide to Division 27

271  What this Division is about

This Division sets out the effect of the GST in working out deductions. Generally speaking, input tax credits, GST and adjustments under the GST Act are disregarded.

Subdivision 27AGeneral

Table of sections

275 Input tax credits and decreasing adjustments

2710 Certain increasing adjustments

2715 GST payments

2720 Elements in calculation of amounts

2725 GST groups and GST joint ventures

2735 Certain sections not to apply to certain assets or expenditure

275  Input tax credits and decreasing adjustments

  You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing you incur, to the extent that the loss or outgoing includes an amount relating to an *input tax credit to which you are entitled or a *decreasing adjustment that you have.

2710  Certain increasing adjustments

 (1) You can deduct an amount of an *increasing adjustment that arises under Division 129 of the *GST Act.

 (2) However, you cannot deduct the amount to the extent (if any) that the adjustment arises from an increase in the extent to which the activity giving rise to the adjustment is of a private or domestic nature.

 (3) If:

 (a) you have an *increasing adjustment under Division 138 of the *GST Act in respect of an asset as a result of the cancellation of your registration under Part 25 of the GST Act; and

 (b) immediately after the cancellation, you held the asset for the purpose of gaining or producing assessable income;

you can deduct the amount of the increasing adjustment.

 (4) However, you cannot deduct an amount under subsection (1) or (3) to the extent that, because it becomes a component of a *net input tax credit, a reduction is made under section 10330 (reduction of cost base etc. by net input tax credits).

2715  GST payments

 (1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing consisting of a payment under Division 33 of the *GST Act.

 (2) This section does not apply to the payment:

 (a) to the extent (if any) that the *net amount to which the payment relates was increased under section 215 of the *Wine Tax Act (which allows for such increases to take account of wine equalisation tax); and

 (b) to the extent (if any) that the *net amount was increased under section 135 of the *Luxury Car Tax Act (which allows for such increases to take account of luxury car tax); and

 (c) to the extent (if any) that the *net amount was increased under paragraph 1310(1)(a) of the Luxury Car Tax Act (which allows for such alterations to take account of increasing luxury car tax adjustments under that Act).

 (3) This section does not apply to the payment of *assessed GST (under section 3315 of the *GST Act) on a *taxable importation that:

 (a) was not a *creditable importation; or

 (b) was *partly creditable;

but only to the extent that that payment of assessed GST exceeds the *input tax credit (if any) to which you are entitled for that importation.

2720  Elements in calculation of amounts

  In calculating an amount that you may be able to deduct:

 (a) an element in the calculation that is an amount paid or payable is treated as not including an amount equal to any *input tax credit for an *acquisition related to the amount paid or payable, or any *decreasing adjustment related to that amount; and

 (b) an element in the calculation that is an amount received or receivable is treated as not including an amount equal to any *GST payable on a *taxable supply related to the amount received or receivable, or any *increasing adjustment related to that amount.

2725  GST groups and GST joint ventures

 (1) A *member of a *GST group is to be treated, for the purposes of this Division, as if Subdivision 48B of the *GST Act (other than subsections 4845(3) and (4)) did not apply to that member.

 (2) A *participant in a *GST joint venture is to be treated, for the purposes of this Division, as if Subdivision 51B of the *GST Act did not apply to that participant.

2735  Certain sections not to apply to certain assets or expenditure

  Sections 275, 2710, 2715 and 2720 do not apply to assets, or to expenditure, for which you can deduct amounts under Division 40 or 328.

Note: See instead Subdivision 27B.

Subdivision 27BEffect of input tax credits etc. on capital allowances

Table of sections

2780 Cost or opening adjustable value of depreciating assets reduced for input tax credits

2785 Cost or opening adjustable value of depreciating assets reduced: decreasing adjustments

2787 Certain decreasing adjustments included in assessable income

2790 Cost or opening adjustable value of depreciating assets increased: increasing adjustments

2792 Certain increasing adjustments can be deducted

2795 Balancing adjustment events

27100 Pooling

27105 Other Division 40 expenditure

27110 Input tax credit etc. relating to 2 or more things

2780  Cost or opening adjustable value of depreciating assets reduced for input tax credits

 (1) A *depreciating asset’s *cost is reduced if:

 (a) an entity’s acquisition or importation of the asset constitutes a *creditable acquisition or *creditable importation; and

 (b) the entity is or becomes entitled to an *input tax credit for the acquisition or importation; and

 (c) the entity can deduct amounts for the asset under Division 40 or 328.

The reduction is the amount of the input tax credit.

 (2) A *depreciating asset’s *cost is also reduced if:

 (a) the entity that *holds the asset incurs expenditure that is included in the second element of the asset’s cost for the income year in which the asset’s *start time occurs; and

 (b) the entity is or becomes entitled to an *input tax credit for the *creditable acquisition or *creditable importation to which the expenditure relates; and

 (c) the entity can deduct amounts for the asset under Division 40 or 328.

The reduction is the amount of the input tax credit.

 (3) However, subsections (1) and (2) do not apply if the *cost of the *depreciating asset is modified under Division 40 to be its *market value.

 (3A) A *depreciating asset’s *opening adjustable value for an income year and its *cost is reduced if:

 (a) an entity’s acquisition or importation of the asset constitutes a *creditable acquisition or *creditable importation; and

 (b) the entity is or becomes entitled to an *input tax credit in an income year (the credit year) for the acquisition or importation and the credit year occurs after the income year in which the acquisition or importation occurred; and

 (c) the income year is after the one in which the asset’s *start time occurs; and

 (d) the entity can deduct amounts for the asset under Division 40 or 328.

The reduction is the amount of the input tax credit.

 (4) A *depreciating asset’s *opening adjustable value for an income year and its *cost is reduced if:

 (a) the entity that *holds the asset incurs expenditure that is included in the second element of the asset’s cost for that income year; and

 (b) that income year is after the one in which the asset’s*start time occurs; and

 (c) the entity is or becomes entitled to an *input tax credit for the *creditable acquisition or *creditable importation to which the expenditure relates for the income year in which the expenditure was incurred; and

 (d) the entity can deduct amounts for the asset under Division 40 or 328.

The reduction is the amount of the input tax credit.

 (5) If the reduction under subsection (2), (3A) or (4) is more than:

 (a) for a subsection (2) case—the *depreciating asset’s *cost; or

 (b) for a subsection (3A) or (4) case—the depreciating asset’s *opening adjustable value;

the excess is included in the entity’s assessable income unless the entity is an *exempt entity.

Exception: pooling

 (6) This section does not apply to:

 (a) a depreciating asset allocated to a lowvalue pool or a pool under Division 328 for or in the *current year; or

 (b) *inhouse software if expenditure on the software is allocated to a software development pool for the current year; or

 (c) a project pool.

2785  Cost or opening adjustable value of depreciating assets reduced: decreasing adjustments

 (1) This section applies to an entity if:

 (a) the entity can deduct amounts for a *depreciating asset under Division 40 or 328; and

 (b) the entity has a *decreasing adjustment in an income year that relates directly or indirectly to the asset.

 (1A) However, this section does not apply to a *decreasing adjustment that arises under Division 129 or 132 of the *GST Act.

Note: See instead section 2787.

 (2) The asset’s *cost is reduced by an amount equal to the *decreasing adjustment if the adjustment arises in the income year in which the asset’s *start time occurs.

 (3) The asset’s *opening adjustable value for an income year and its *cost is reduced by an amount equal to the *decreasing adjustment if the adjustment arises in that year and that year is after the one in which the asset’s*start time occurs.

 (4) If the reduction under subsection (2) or (3) is more than:

 (a) for a subsection (2) case—the *depreciating asset’s *cost; or

 (b) for a subsection (3) case—the depreciating asset’s *opening adjustable value;

the excess is included in the entity’s assessable income unless the entity is an *exempt entity.

Exception: pooling

 (5) This section does not apply to:

 (a) a depreciating asset allocated to a lowvalue pool or a pool under Division 328 for or in the *current year; or

 (b) *inhouse software if expenditure on the software is allocated to a software development pool for the current year; or

 (c) a project pool.

2787  Certain decreasing adjustments included in assessable income

 (1) This section applies to an entity if:

 (a) the entity can deduct amounts for a *depreciating asset under Division 40 or 328; and

 (b) the entity has a *decreasing adjustment that arises under Division 129 or 132 of the *GST Act in an income year that relates directly or indirectly to the asset; and

 (c) section 2795 does not apply to the entity in relation to the asset.

 (2) The amount of the *decreasing adjustment is included in the entity’s assessable income for the income year unless the entity is an *exempt entity.

2790  Cost or opening adjustable value of depreciating assets increased: increasing adjustments

 (1) This section applies to an entity if:

 (a) the entity can deduct amounts for a *depreciating asset under Division 40 or 328; and

 (b) the entity has an *increasing adjustment in an income year that relates directly or indirectly to the asset.

 (1A) However, this section does not apply to an *increasing adjustment that arises under Division 129 or 132 of the *GST Act.

Note: See instead section 2792.

 (2) The asset’s *cost is increased by an amount equal to the *increasing adjustment if the adjustment arises in the income year in which the asset’s *start time occurs.

 (3) The asset’s *opening adjustable value for an income year and its *cost is increased by an amount equal to the *increasing adjustment if the adjustment arises in that year and that year is after the one in which the asset’s *start time occurs.

Exception: pooling

 (4) This section does not apply to:

 (a) a depreciating asset allocated to a lowvalue pool or a pool under Division 328 for or in the *current year; or

 (b) *inhouse software if expenditure on the software is allocated to a software development pool for the current year; or

 (c) a project pool.

2792  Certain increasing adjustments can be deducted

 (1) This section applies to an entity if:

 (a) the entity can deduct amounts for a *depreciating asset under Division 40 or 328; and

 (b) the entity has an *increasing adjustment that arises under Division 129 or 132 of the *GST Act in an income year that relates directly or indirectly to the asset.

 (2) The entity can deduct the amount of the *increasing adjustment for the income year.

 (3) However, the entity cannot deduct the amount to the extent (if any) that the adjustment arises from an increase in the extent to which the activity giving rise to the adjustment is of a private or domestic nature.

2795  Balancing adjustment events

 (1) The *termination value of a *depreciating asset is reduced if the relevant *balancing adjustment event is a *taxable supply. The reduction is an amount equal to the *GST payable on the supply.

 (2) However, subsection (1) does not apply if the *termination value of the *depreciating asset is modified under Division 40 to be its *market value.

 (3) The *termination value of a *depreciating asset is increased if the entity that *held the asset has a *decreasing adjustment that relates directly or indirectly to that *taxable supply in the income year in which the *balancing adjustment event occurred. The increase is the amount of the decreasing adjustment.

 (4) The *termination value of a *depreciating asset is decreased if the entity that *held the asset has an *increasing adjustment that relates directly or indirectly to that *taxable supply in the income year in which the *balancing adjustment event occurred. The decrease is the amount of the increasing adjustment.

 (5) An amount is included in the assessable income of the entity that *held the asset if the entity has a *decreasing adjustment that relates directly or indirectly to that *taxable supply in a later income year. The amount included is the amount of the decreasing adjustment.

 (6) The entity that *held the asset can deduct an amount if the entity has an *increasing adjustment that relates directly or indirectly to that *taxable supply in a later income year. The amount it can deduct is the amount of the increasing adjustment.

27100  Pooling

 (1) This section contains special rules for expenditure (the pooled expenditure) incurred by an entity:

 (a) on a *depreciating asset allocated to a lowvalue pool; or

 (b) on a depreciating asset allocated to a pool under Division 328 for or in an income year; or

 (c) on *inhouse software if the expenditure on the software is allocated to a software development pool; and

 (d) on *project amounts if the amounts are allocated to a project pool.

Reduction to pools etc.

 (2) There is a reduction under subsection (3) or (5) if:

 (a) the pooled expenditure relates directly or indirectly to a *creditable acquisition or *creditable importation; and

 (b) the entity is or becomes entitled to an *input tax credit in an income year (the credit year) for the acquisition or importation and the credit year occurs after the income year in which the acquisition or importation occurred.

 (2A) There is a reduction under subsection (4) if:

 (a) the pooled expenditure relates directly or indirectly to a *creditable acquisition or *creditable importation; and

 (b) the entity is or becomes entitled to an *input tax credit in an income year (the credit year) for the acquisition or importation.

Reduced cost of assets allocated to a pool

 (2B) A *depreciating asset’s *cost is reduced if:

 (a) an entity’s acquisition or importation of the asset constitutes a *creditable acquisition or *creditable importation; and

 (b) the entity is or becomes entitled to an *input tax credit for the acquisition or importation and the income year in which the acquisition or importation occurred is the same as the one in which the input tax credit arose; and

 (c) the asset is allocated to a lowvalue pool or a pool under Division 328 for or in that year.

The reduction is the amount of the input tax credit.

Lowvalue pools

 (3) For a lowvalue pool, the *closing pool balance of the pool for:

 (a) if the credit year is later than the first income year for which *depreciating assets were allocated to the pool—the income year before the credit year; or

 (b) if the credit year is the first income year for which *depreciating assets were allocated to the pool—the credit year;

is reduced by an amount equal to the input tax credit.

Software development pools and project pools

 (4) For a software development pool or a project pool, the expenditure in the pool for the credit year, or the *pool value for the credit year, is reduced by an amount equal to the *input tax credit.

Small business pools

 (5) For a pool under Division 328, the *opening pool balance of the pool for the credit year is reduced by an amount equal to the input tax credit.

No reduction if market value

 (5A) However, there is no reduction to the *cost of a *depreciating asset if its cost is modified under Division 40 to be its *market value.

Second element of cost

 (6) There is a reduction under subsection (7) if:

 (a) the entity incurs expenditure in an income year (also the credit year) that is included in the second element of the *cost of a *depreciating asset allocated to a lowvalue pool or a pool under Division 328 for or in the credit year; and

 (b) the entity is or becomes entitled, after the credit year, to an *input tax credit for the expenditure.

 (7) An amount equal to the amount of the *input tax credit is applied in reduction of:

 (a) for a lowvalue pool:

 (i) if the credit year is later than the first income year for which *depreciating assets were allocated to the pool—the *closing pool balance of the pool for the income year before the credit year; or

 (ii) if the credit year is the first income year for which *depreciating assets were allocated to the pool—the *closing pool balance of the pool for the credit year; or

 (b) for a pool under Division 328—the *opening pool balance of the pool for the credit year.

 (7A) There is a reduction to an amount of expenditure included in the second element of the *cost of a *depreciating asset if:

 (a) the asset is allocated to a lowvalue pool or a pool under Division 328 for or in the income year in which the expenditure was incurred; and

 (b) the entity that incurred the expenditure is or becomes entitled to an *input tax credit for the expenditure; and

 (c) the entitlement arises in the income year in which the expenditure was incurred.

The reduction is the amount of the input tax credit.

Increasing adjustments

 (8) There is an increase under subsection (9) if the entity has an *increasing adjustment (except one that arises under Division 129 or 132 of the *GST Act) in an income year (the adjustment year) that relates directly or indirectly to a *creditable acquisition or *creditable importation to which the pooled expenditure relates.

Note: For an increasing adjustment that arises under Division 129 or 132 of the GST Act, see section 2792.

 (9) An amount equal to the amount of that *increasing adjustment is added to:

 (a) for a lowvalue pool:

 (i) if the adjustment year is later than the first income year for which *depreciating assets were allocated to the pool—the *closing pool balance of the pool for the income year before the adjustment year; or

 (ii) if the adjustment year is the first income year for which *depreciating assets were allocated to the pool—the *closing pool balance of the pool for the adjustment year; or

 (b) for a pool under Division 328—the *opening pool balance of the pool for the adjustment year; or

 (c) for *inhouse software—the amount of expenditure allocated to the software development pool for the adjustment year; or

 (d) for a project pool—the *pool value for the adjustment year.

Decreasing adjustments

 (10) There is a decrease under subsection (11) if the entity has a *decreasing adjustment (except one that arises under Division 129 or 132 of the *GST Act) in an income year (also the adjustment year) that relates directly or indirectly to a *creditable acquisition or *creditable importation to which the pooled expenditure relates.

Note: For a decreasing adjustment that arises under Division 129 or 132 of the GST Act, see section 2787.

 (11) An amount equal to the amount of the *decreasing adjustment is applied in reduction of:

 (a) for a lowvalue pool:

 (i) if the adjustment year is later than the first income year for which *depreciating assets were allocated to the pool—the *closing pool balance of the pool for the income year before the adjustment year; or

 (ii) if the adjustment year is the first income year for which *depreciating assets were allocated to the pool—the *closing pool balance of the pool for the adjustment year; or

 (b) for a pool under Division 328—the *opening pool balance of the pool for the adjustment year; or

 (c) for *inhouse software—the amount of expenditure allocated to the software development pool for the adjustment year; or

 (d) for a project pool—the *pool value for the adjustment year.

 (12) If the amount available for reduction under subsection (11) is more than the amount referred to in paragraph (11)(a), (b), (c) or (d) (whichever is applicable), the excess is included in the entity’s assessable income unless the entity is an *exempt entity.

27105  Other Division 40 expenditure

 (1) This section applies to expenditure for which an entity can deduct amounts under Division 40 (but not under Subdivision 40B or 40E, or Subdivision 40I to the extent that that Subdivision relates to project pools).

 (2) The amount of the expenditure is reduced if the entity is or becomes entitled to an *input tax credit for a *creditable acquisition or *creditable importation to which the expenditure directly or indirectly relates. The reduction is the amount of the input tax credit that relates to that expenditure.

 (3) If the entity has a *decreasing adjustment in an income year that relates directly or indirectly to the expenditure, an amount equal to the decreasing adjustment is included in the entity’s assessable income for that income year.

 (4) If the entity has an *increasing adjustment in an income year that relates directly or indirectly to the expenditure, the entity can deduct an amount equal to the increasing adjustment for that income year.

 (5) If the entity is a partnership and partners in that partnership can deduct amounts under Division 40 because section 40570 or 40665 applies, an amount equal to the *input tax credit, the *decreasing adjustment or the *increasing adjustment is apportioned to each of the partners as set out in subsection 40570(2) or 40665(2).

 (6) However, this section does not apply to an *exempt entity.

27110  Input tax credit etc. relating to 2 or more things

  This Subdivision applies to an *input tax credit, or an *increasing adjustment or *decreasing adjustment, that relates directly or indirectly to 2 or more things of which at least one is a *depreciating asset as if a reasonable proportion of the input tax credit or adjustment related directly or indirectly to each of those depreciating assets and each of those other things.

Division 28Car expenses

Table of Subdivisions

 Guide to Division 28

28A Deductions for car expenses

28B Choosing which method to use

28C The “cents per kilometre” method

28F The “log book” method

28G Keeping a log book

28H Odometer records for a period

28I Retaining the log book and odometer records

28J Situations where you cannot use, or do not need to use, one of the 2 methods

Guide to Division 28

281  What this Division is about

This Division sets out the rules for working out deductions for car expenses if you own or lease a car or hire a car under a hire purchase agreement.

Table of sections

285 Map of this Division

285  Map of this Division

Subdivision 28ADeductions for car expenses

Table of sections

2810 Application of Division 28

2812 Car expenses

2813 Meaning of car expense

2810  Application of Division 28

 (1) This Division applies to an individual.

 (2) It also applies to a partnership that includes at least one individual, as if the partnership were an individual.

 (3) It does not apply to any other entity.

2812  Car expenses

 (1) If you owned or leased a *car, you can deduct for the car’s expenses an amount or amounts worked out using one of 2 methods.

Note 1: For particular types of cars taken on hire you cannot use one of the 2 methods: see section 28165.

Note 2: In certain circumstances the lessee of a luxury car is taken to be its owner (see subsection 24215(2)).

Note 3: In certain circumstances (for example, under a hire purchase agreement) the notional buyer of property is taken to be its owner (see subsection 24020(2)).

 (2) You must use one of the 2 methods unless an exception applies. If you can’t use either of the methods, you can’t deduct anything for the *car expenses.

2813  Meaning of car expense

 (1) A car expense is a loss or outgoing to do with a *car.

 (2) In addition, any of the following is a car expense:

 (a) a loss or outgoing to do with operating a *car;

 (b) the decline in value of a car.

 (3) None of the following is a car expense:

 (a) a loss or outgoing incurred, or a payment made, in respect of travel outside Australia;

 (b) a taxi fare or similar loss or outgoing.

Subdivision 28BChoosing which method to use

Guide to Subdivision 28B

2814  What this Subdivision is about

This Subdivision sets out the rules about choosing a method of calculating car expense deductions.

Table of sections

2815 Choosing between the 2 methods

Operative provision

2820 Rules governing choice of method

2815  Choosing between the 2 methods

 (1) Below is a diagram giving information about the 2 methods of calculating car expense deductions.

 (2) The 2 methods give you the choice of which method best suits your situation and needs. For instance, one method may involve more paperwork than the other, but could give you bigger deductions.

 

Operative provision

2820  Rules governing choice of method

 (1) You can choose only one method for all the *car expenses for the *car for the income year. Choosing one method precludes the other method.

 (2) However, you can change your choice for the income year.

Example: You choose the “log book” method and deduct $1,000. On audit, the Commissioner finds that your claim is too high and should be reduced to $500. You would have been able to deduct $700 if you had chosen the “cents per kilometre” method. This rule lets you change your choice and deduct the $700.

 (3) You can also choose different methods for the same *car for different income years and different methods for different cars for the same year.

Subdivision 28CThe “cents per kilometre” method

Table of sections

2825 How to calculate your deduction

2830 Capital allowances

2835 Substantiation

2825  How to calculate your deduction

 (1) To calculate your deduction using the “cents per kilometre” method, use this formula:

 (2) But you can use this formula for the first 5,000 *business kilometres only. If the *car travelled more than 5,000 business kilometres, you must discard the kilometres in excess of 5,000.

Example: If the car travelled 5,085 business kilometres, you could claim for 5,000, and would lose the extra 85.

 (3) Business kilometres are kilometres the *car travelled in the course of:

 (a) producing your assessable income; or

 (b) your *travel between workplaces.

You calculate the number of business kilometres by making a reasonable estimate.

 (4) For the purposes of subsection (1), the Commissioner may, by legislative instrument, determine rates of cents per kilometre for cars for an income year.

 (5) In determining a rate, the Commissioner must have regard to the average operating costs for the cars to be covered by that rate.

Note: Examples of operating costs include fixed costs such as registration, insurance and depreciation, and variable costs such as fuel and maintenance.

2830  Capital allowances

  If a *balancing adjustment event occurs for the *car, you will need to refer to the capital allowances rules in Division 40 to find out how using this method affects the operation of those rules. See section 40370 (about balancing adjustments for some cars).

2835  Substantiation

  To use this method, you do not need to substantiate the *car expenses for the *car.

Subdivision 28FThe “log book” method

Table of sections

2890 How to calculate your deduction

2895 Eligibility

28100 Substantiation

2890  How to calculate your deduction

 (1) To use the “log book” method, you multiply the amount of each *car expense by the *business use percentage.

The expense

 (2) The expense must qualify as a deduction under some provision of this Act outside this Division (or would qualify if, while you *held the *car, you had used it only in producing your assessable income). If only part of the expense would qualify, you multiply that part by the *business use percentage.

Example: You borrow money to buy a car. You make repayments of principal and payments of interest.

 You cannot deduct the repayments of principal because they are capital expenses.

 The interest payments would be deductible in full if, throughout the income year, you had used the car only in producing your assessable income.

 Using the “log book” method:

To find out whether an expense qualifies as a deduction under this Act, see Division 8 (Deductions).

The percentage

 (3) The business use percentage is calculated by dividing:

 the number of *business kilometres that the *car travelled in the period when you *held it during the income year;

by

 the total number of kilometres that the car travelled in that period;

and expressing the result as a percentage.

 (4) Business kilometres are kilometres the *car travelled in the course of:

 (a) producing your assessable income; or

 (b) your *travel between workplaces.

 (5) You calculate the number of business kilometres by making a reasonable estimate. The estimate must take into account all relevant matters, including:

 (a) any log books, odometer records or other records you have; and

 (b) any variations in the pattern of use of the *car; and

 (c) any changes in the number of cars you used in the course of producing your assessable income.

 (6) You hold a *car while you own it, or it is leased to you, for use in the course of producing your assessable income, even if it is also used for some other purpose.

Note 1: In certain circumstances the lessee of a luxury car is taken to be its owner (see subsection 24215(2)).

Note 2: In certain circumstances the notional buyer of property is taken to be its owner (see subsection 24020(2)).

2895  Eligibility

  You can use this method only if you *held the *car for some or all of the income year.

28100  Substantiation

 (1) To use this method, you must substantiate the *car expenses under Subdivision 900C.

 (2) You must also keep a log book. Subdivision 28G explains:

  how often you need to keep a log book;

  how to keep a log book.

The log book is relevant to estimating the number of business kilometres the *car travelled in the period when you *held it during the income year.

 (3) You must keep odometer records for the period when you *held the *car during the income year. Subdivision 28H tells you about odometer records, which document the total number of kilometres the car travelled in that period.

 (4) You must record the following information, in writing, before you lodge your *income tax return:

 (a) your estimate of the number of *business kilometres; and

 (b) the *business use percentage.

However, the Commissioner may allow you to record the information later.

 (5) You must retain the log book and the odometer records. Subdivision 28I has the rules about this.

Subdivision 28GKeeping a log book

Guide to Subdivision 28G

28105  What this Subdivision is about

This Subdivision tells you how to keep a log book. A log book is relevant to estimating the number of business kilometres the car travelled in the period when you held it during the income year.

Table of sections

28110 Steps for keeping a log book

Operative provisions

28115 Income years for which you need to keep a log book

28120 Choosing the 12 week period for a log book

28125 How to keep a log book

28130 Replacing one car with another

28110  Steps for keeping a log book

  There are 3 steps you need to follow in keeping a log book:

 identify an income year for which to keep a log book;

 choose a period of at least 12 weeks for the log book to cover;

 record journeys made in the car during the log book period in the course of producing your assessable income.

Operative provisions

28115  Income years for which you need to keep a log book

 (1) You need to keep a log book for the first income year for which you use this method for the *car.

 (2) Having kept a log book for one income year, you don’t need to keep a new one for the next 4 or more income years unless subsection (3) or (4) requires it. If you haven’t kept a new log book for 4 income years in a row, you must keep one for the next income year.

Example: If you keep a log book in 199798, you would need to keep the next one in 20022003, unless subsection (3) or (4) requires one sooner.

 (3) You must keep a log book for an income year if the Commissioner sends you a notice before the year directing you to keep a log book for the *car for that year.

 (4) You must keep a log book for an income year if, during that year, you get one or more additional *cars for which you want to use the “log book” method for that year.

 (5) When you replace one *car with another, you might have a period when you *hold both the new car and the old car, or a period when you no longer *hold the old car but do not yet hold the new car. In both these cases, you are treated for the purposes of subsection (4) as if you held the one car continuously.

 (6) You may choose to keep a log book for an income year even if you don’t need to; for example, because you want to establish a higher *business use percentage.

28120  Choosing the 12 week period for a log book

 (1) The log book must cover a continuous period of at least 12 weeks throughout which you *held the *car. If you hold the car for less than 12 weeks, the period must be the entire period for which you held the car.

 (2) The period may overlap the start or end of the income year, so long as it includes part of the year.

 (3) If you want to use the “log book” method for 2 or more *cars for the same income year, the log books for those cars must cover periods that are concurrent.

28125  How to keep a log book

 (1) It is in your interests to record in the log book any journey made in the *car during the log book period in the course of producing your assessable income. If a journey is not recorded, the log book will indicate a lower *business use percentage than is actually the case.

 (2) A journey is recorded by making in the log book an entry specifying:

 (a) the day the journey began and the day it ended;

 (b) the *car’s odometer readings at the start and end of the journey;

 (c) how many kilometres the car travelled on the journey;

 (d) why the journey was made.

The record must be made at the end of the journey or as soon as possible afterwards.

 (3) If 2 or more journeys in a row are made in the *car on the same day in the course of producing your assessable income, they can be recorded as a single journey.

 (4) The following must be entered in the log book:

 (a) when the log book period begins and ends;

 (b) the *car’s odometer readings at the start and the end of the period;

 (c) the total number of kilometres that the car travelled during the period;

 (d) the number of kilometres that the car travelled, in the course of producing your assessable income, on journeys recorded in the log book;

 (e) the number of kilometres referred to in paragraph (d), expressed as a percentage of the total number referred to in paragraph (c).

Each of the entries must be made at or as soon as possible after the start or end of the period, as appropriate.

 (5) Each entry in the log book must be in English.

28130  Replacing one car with another

 (1) For the purposes of using the “log book” method, you may nominate one *car as having replaced another car with effect from a day specified in the nomination.

 (2) After the nomination takes effect, the replacement *car is treated as the original car, and the original car is treated as a different car. This means that you do not need to repeat for the replacement car the steps you have already taken for the original car under this Subdivision.

 (3) You must record the nomination in writing before you lodge your *income tax return for the income year in which the nomination takes effect. However, the Commissioner may allow you to do it later.

 (4) You must retain the nomination document until the end of the period for which you must retain the last log book that you began to keep for the original *car before the day of effect of the nomination.

 (5) Section 28150 (which is about retaining log books) applies to the nomination document in the same way as it applies to that last log book.

Subdivision 28HOdometer records for a period

Guide to Subdivision 28H

28135  What this Subdivision is about

This Subdivision tells you how to keep odometer records for a car during a particular period. Odometer records document the total number of kilometres the car travelled during a particular period.

Table of sections

Operative provision

28140 How to keep odometer records for a car for a period

Operative provision

28140  How to keep odometer records for a car for a period

 (1) Odometer records for a period are kept in the form of a document in which the following are entered:

 (a) the *car’s odometer readings at the start and the end of the period;

 (b) if there is a nomination under section 28130 to replace the car with another *car with effect from a day in that period—the odometer readings, at the end of that day, of both cars affected by the nomination.

 (2) Each entry under subsection (1) must be in English and must be made at or as soon as possible after the start or end of the period, or the end of the specified day, as appropriate.

 (3) The following must also be entered in the document:

 (a) the *car’s make, model and registration number (if any);

 (b) if the car has an internal combustion engine—its engine capacity expressed in cubic centimetres;

 (c) if there is a nomination under section 28130 to replace the car with another *car—the corresponding details for the other car affected by the nomination.

 (4) Each entry under subsection (3) must be made in English and must be made before you lodge your *income tax return.

 (5) The Commissioner may allow you to make an entry under this section after you lodge your *income tax return.

Subdivision 28IRetaining the log book and odometer records

Table of sections

28150 Retaining the log book for the retention period

28155 Retaining odometer records

28150  Retaining the log book for the retention period

 (1) You must retain the log book:

 (a) first, until the end of the latest income year for which you rely on the log book to support your calculation of the *business use percentage for the *car; and

 (b) then for another 5 years.

The period for which you must retain the log book is called the retention period.

 (2) The 5 years start on the due day for lodging your *income tax return for that latest income year. If you lodge your return later, the 5 years start on the day you lodge it.

 (3) However, the *retention period is extended if, when the 5 years end, you are involved in a dispute with the Commissioner that relates to a deduction worked out using a *business use percentage that you are relying on the log book to support. See section 900170.

 (4) If you do not retain the log book for the *retention period, you cannot deduct any amount worked out using a *business use percentage that you are relying on the log book to support. If you have already deducted such an amount, your assessment may be amended to disallow the deduction.

 (5) For the purposes of the rules about retaining and producing records of expenses (see Subdivision 900G), the log book is treated as a record of the *car expenses for each year for which you use a *business use percentage that you are relying on the log book to support.

 (6) If you lose the log book, there are rules that might help you in section 900205. For the purposes of the rules about relief from the effects of failing to substantiate (see Subdivision 900H), not doing something required by this Division is treated in the same way as not doing something necessary to follow the rules in Division 900.

28155  Retaining odometer records

 (1) You must retain your odometer records relating to the period when you *held the *car in the income year.

 (2) If you keep a log book for the income year, you must retain the odometer records for the same period as the log book, and section 28150 applies to them in the same way as it applies to the log book.

 (3) If you don’t keep a log book for the income year, you must retain the odometer records for the same period as written evidence of a *car expense for the *car for the income year, and section 90075 applies to them in the same way as it applies to written evidence of an expense.

Note: Section 90075 is about retaining written evidence of a car expense.

Subdivision 28JSituations where you cannot use, or do not need to use, one of the 2 methods

Guide to Subdivision 28J

28160  What this Subdivision is about

This Subdivision sets out the situations where you cannot use, or don’t need to use, either of the 2 methods. These situations involve either the nature of your car or the way you use it.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

28165 Exception for particular cars taken on hire

28170 Exception for particular cars used in particular ways

28175 Further miscellaneous exceptions

28180 Car expenses related to award transport payments

28185 Application of Subdivision 28J to PAYE to recipients and payers of certain withholding payments

Operative provisions

28165  Exception for particular cars taken on hire

 (1) For particular types of *cars taken on hire you cannot use one of the 2 methods to calculate your deductions for *car expenses.

 (2) Instead, you must calculate the deductions under the normal principles governing deductions, including the rules for apportioning a loss or outgoing that is only partly attributable to producing assessable income.

 (3) This section applies to a taxi taken on hire.

 (4) It also applies to a *motor vehicle taken on hire under an agreement of a kind ordinarily entered into by people who take motor vehicles on hire intermittently, as the occasion requires, on an hourly, daily, weekly or short term basis, except if the motor vehicle:

 (a) has been taken on hire under successive agreements of a kind that result in substantial continuity of the motor vehicle being taken on hire; or

 (b) it is reasonable to expect that the motor vehicle will be taken on hire under successive agreements of a kind that will so result.

28170  Exception for particular cars used in particular ways

 (1) For particular types of *cars used in particular ways you don’t need to use one of the 2 methods to calculate your deductions for *car expenses.

 (2) You may use one of the 2 methods, or you may instead calculate the deductions under the normal principles governing deductions, including the rules for apportioning a loss or outgoing that is only partly attributable to producing assessable income.

 (3) This section applies if, whenever you used the *car in the income year:

 (a) the car was covered by the description in column 2 of an item in the table below; and

 (b) you used the car as described in column 3 of that item.

 

Item

Column 2
Particular car

Column 3
Exempt use

1.

The *car was:

(a) a panel van or utility truck; or

(b) any other road vehicle designed to carry a load of less than 1 tonne (other than a vehicle designed principally to carry passengers); or

You used the car only in one or more of the following ways:

(a) in the course of producing your assessable income;

(b) to go between your residence and a place where you use the car in the course of producing your assessable income;

(c) by providing the car to someone else to drive between his or her residence and a place where the car is used in the course of producing your assessable income;

 

(c) a taxi.

(d) for the purpose of travel that is incidental to using the car in the course of producing your assessable income;

(e) for your own or someone else’s private use that was minor, infrequent and irregular.

2.

The *car was part of the *trading stock of a *business of selling cars that you carried on.

You used the car in the course of the business.

3.

The *car was any type of car.

You let the car on lease or hire in the course of a *business of letting cars on lease or hire that you carry on.

4.

The *car was any type of car.

As an employer, you provided the car for the exclusive use of one or more of the following:

(a) your employees;

(b) their *relatives;

in circumstances where one or more of them was entitled to use the car for private purposes.

Note: This Subdivision also applies to entities that are not employers, but pay (or are liable to pay) withholding payments covered by subsection 28185(3).

28175  Further miscellaneous exceptions

 (1) This section lists some miscellaneous cases where you don’t need to use one of the 2 methods to calculate your deductions for *car expenses.

 (2) You may use one of the 2 methods, or you may instead calculate the deductions under the normal principles governing deductions, including the rules for apportioning a loss or outgoing that is only partly attributable to producing assessable income.

 (3) The cases are as follows:

 (a) the *car was unregistered throughout the period when you *held it during the income year, and during that period you used it principally in the course of producing your assessable income; or

 (b) at some time during the income year the *car was part of the *trading stock of a *business of selling cars that you carried on, and you didn’t use the car at any time during that year; or

 (c) the expense is to do with repairs to or other work on the *car, and you incurred it in the course of a *business that you carried on of doing repairs or other work on cars.

In applying paragraph (a), the car is taken to be registered in a particular place while it is lawful to drive the car on a public road there.

28180  Car expenses related to award transport payments

 (1) Subdivision 900I (Award transport payments) allows certain losses or outgoings to be deducted without getting written evidence. The losses or outgoings are *transport expenses related to an allowance or reimbursement paid or payable to you by your employer under an *industrial instrument that was in force on 29 October 1986.

Note: This Subdivision also applies to entities that are not employers, but pay (or are liable to pay) withholding payments covered by subsection 28185(3).

 (2) If that Subdivision lets you deduct *car expenses, or parts of *car expenses, without getting written evidence, you don’t need to use any of the 2 methods to calculate your deductions for those expenses or parts of expenses.

 (3) However, your use of the 2 methods for other *car expenses you incur for the *car for the income year is affected, unless you elect not to rely on Subdivision 900I. Section 900250 deals with this matter.

28185  Application of Subdivision 28J to recipients and payers of certain withholding payments

Application to recipients

 (1) If an individual receives, or is entitled to receive, *withholding payments covered by subsection (3), this Subdivision applies to him or her:

 (a) in the same way as it applies to an employee; and

 (b) as if an entity (a notional employer) that makes (or is liable to make) such payments to him or her were his or her employer; and

 (c) as if any other individual who receives, or is entitled to receive, such payments from a notional employer were also an employee of the notional employer.

Application to payers

 (2) This Division applies to an entity that makes, or is liable to make, *withholding payments covered by subsection (3):

 (a) in the same way as it applies to an employer; and

 (b) as if an individual to whom the entity makes (or is liable to make) such payments were the entity’s employee.

Withholding payments covered

 (3) This subsection covers a *withholding payment covered by any of the provisions in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 listed in the table.

 

Withholding payments covered

Item

Provision

Subject matter

1

Section 1235

Payment to employee

2

Section 1240

Payment to company director

3

Section 1245

Payment to office holder

3A

Section 1247

Payment to *religious practitioner

4

Section 1250

Return to work payment

5

Subdivision 12C

Payments for retirement or because of termination of employment

6

Subdivision 12D

Benefit and compensation payments

Division 30Gifts or contributions

Table of Subdivisions

Guide to Division 30

30A Deductions for gifts or contributions

30B Tables of recipients for deductible gifts

30BA Endorsement of deductible gift recipients

30C Rules applying to particular gifts of property

30CA Administrative requirements relating to ABNs

30DA Donations to political parties and independent candidates and members

30DB Spreading certain gift and covenant deductions over up to 5 income years

30E Register of environmental organisations

30EA Register of harm prevention charities

30F Register of cultural organisations

30G Index to this Division

Guide to Division 30

301  What this Division is about

This Division sets out the rules for working out deductions for certain gifts or contributions that you make.

Table of sections

305 How to find your way around this Division

3010 Index

305  How to find your way around this Division

 (1) You should start at Subdivision 30A unless you are making a contribution or gift to a political party, independent candidate or member.

Note: Subdivision 30DA deals with the deductibility of contributions and gifts to political parties, independent candidates and members.

 (2) Subdivision 30A contains a table of all the gifts and contributions that you can deduct. You need to look at the table to see whether the type of gift or contribution you are making is covered by it.

 (3) In some cases, the table sends you off to Subdivision 30B. It has a number of tables that list particular funds, authorities or institutions that deductible gifts can be made to.

 (4) In other cases, the table sends you off to Subdivision 30C. It contains rules that apply to particular gifts of property.

 (4AA) Subdivision 30BA provides for the Commissioner to endorse as a deductible gift recipient an entity that is, or operates, a fund, authority or institution. The relevance of the Subdivision to you is that generally you can deduct only a gift you make to a recipient that is endorsed or named in:

 (a) this Division; or

 (b) regulations made for the purposes of this Division.

Note: The fact that gifts to a recipient registered in the Australian Business Register are deductible will be shown in the Register.

 (4AB) Subdivision 30CA sets out administrative rules which do not directly affect whether you can deduct a gift you make. The rules require:

 (a) a receipt issued by an entity for a gift to the entity or to a fund, authority or institution operated by the entity to show the entity’s ABN; and

 (b) the Australian Business Registrar to enter in the Australian Business Register a statement in relation to an entity entered in the Register if:

 (i) gifts to the entity are deductible; or

 (ii) gifts to a fund, authority or institution operated by the entity are deductible.

 (4B) Subdivision 30DB allows you to spread deductions for certain gifts and covenants over up to 5 income years.

 (5) Subdivision 30E requires the establishment of a register of *environmental organisations. Subdivision 30EA requires the establishment of a register of *harm prevention charities. Subdivision 30F requires the establishment of a register of *cultural organisations. Their only relevance to you is that you can deduct a gift that you make to a fund listed on one of those registers.

3010  Index

  There is an index to this Division in Subdivision 30G.

Subdivision 30ADeductions for gifts or contributions

Table of sections

3015 Table of gifts or contributions that you can deduct

3017 Requirements for certain recipients

3015  Table of gifts or contributions that you can deduct

 (1) You can deduct a gift or contribution that you make in the situations set out in the following table. It tells you:

 who the recipient of the gift or contribution can be; and

 the type of gift or contribution that you can make; and

 how much you can deduct for the gift or contribution; and

 any special conditions that apply.

 (2) A testamentary gift or contribution is not deductible under this section.

Note: Subdivision 30DA deals with the deductibility of contributions and gifts to political parties, independent candidates and members.

Deductible gifts or contributions

Recipient

Type of gift or contribution

How much you can deduct

Special conditions

1

A fund, authority or institution covered by an item in any of the tables in Subdivision 30B.

A gift of:

(a) money; or

(b) property (including *trading stock) that you purchased during the 12 months before making the gift; or

(c) an item of your trading stock if:

 the gift is a disposal of the item outside the ordinary course of your *business; and

 no election has been made, or is made, in relation to the item under Subdivision 385E (about electing to spread or defer profit from the forced disposal or death of *live stock); or

(d) property valued by the Commissioner at more than $5,000; or

(a) if the gift is money—the amount you are giving; or

(b) if the gift is property (except trading stock covered by paragraph (c), property covered by paragraph (d) or shares covered by paragraph (e))—the lesser of the market value of the property on the day you made the gift and the amount you paid for the property; or

(c) if the gift is an item of your trading stock:

 that you disposed of outside the ordinary course of your business; and

 for which no election has been made, or is made, in relation to the item under Subdivision 385E;

 the market value of the item on the day you made the gift; or

(a) the fund, authority or institution must be in Australia; and

(aa) the fund, authority or institution must either meet the requirements of section 3017 or be mentioned by name in the relevant table item in Subdivision 30B; and

(b) the value of the gift must be $2 or more; and

(c) any conditions set out in the relevant table item in Subdivision 30B must be satisfied; and

(d) if the property is to be valued by the Commissioner—the requirements of section 30212 are satisfied.

 

 

(e) *shares that you have acquired in a *listed public company if:

 the shares are listed for quotation in the official list of a stock exchange that is listed under the heading “Australia” in regulations made for the purposes of the definition of *approved stock exchange; and

 the *market value of the shares on the day you made the gift is $5,000 or less; and

 you acquire the shares at least 12 months before making the gift.

(d) if the gift is property valued by the Commissioner at more than $5,000 and you did not purchase the property during the 12 months before making the gift—the value of the property as determined by the Commissioner; or

(e) if the gift is shares described in paragraph (e) of the previous column—the market value of the shares on the day you made the gift.

 

2

An *ancillary fund established and maintained under a will or instrument of trust solely for:

(a) the purpose of providing money, property or benefits:

 to a fund, authority or institution gifts to which are deductible under item 1 of this table; and

 for any purposes set out in the item of the table in Subdivision 30B that covers the fund, authority or institution; or

A gift of:

(a) money; or

(b) property (including *trading stock) that you purchased during the 12 months before making the gift; or

(c) an item of your trading stock if:

 the gift is a disposal of the item outside the ordinary course of your *business; and

 no election has been made, or is made, in relation to the item under Subdivision 385E (about electing to spread or defer profit from the forced disposal or death of *live stock); or

(d) property valued by the Commissioner at more than $5,000; or

(a) if the gift is money—the amount you are giving; or

(b) if the gift is property (except trading stock covered by paragraph (c), property covered by paragraph (d) or shares covered by paragraph (e))—the lesser of the market value of the property on the day you made the gift and the amount you paid for the property; or

(c) if the gift is an item of your trading stock:

 that you disposed of outside the ordinary course of your business; and

 for which no election has been made, or is made, in relation to the item under Subdivision 385E;

 the market value of the item on the day you made the gift; or

(a) the value of the gift must be $2 or more; and

(b) the terms of the will or trust must allow the trustee to invest money that the ancillary fund receives because of the gift only in a way that an *Australian law allows trustees to invest trust money; and

(c) the ancillary fund must meet the requirements of section 3017; and

(d) if the property is to be valued by the Commissioner—the requirements of section 30212 are satisfied.

 

(b) the establishment of such a fund, authority or institution.

(e) *shares that you have acquired in a *listed public company if:

 the shares are listed for quotation in the official list of a stock exchange that is listed under the heading “Australia” in regulations made for the purposes of the definition of *approved stock exchange; and

 the *market value of the shares on the day you made the gift is $5,000 or less; and

 you acquire the shares at least 12 months before making the gift.

(d) if the gift is property valued by the Commissioner at more than $5,000 and you did not purchase the property during the 12 months before making the gift—the value of the property as determined by the Commissioner; or

(e) if the gift is shares described in paragraph (e) of the previous column—the market value of the shares on the day you made the gift.

 

4

(a) the Australiana Fund; or

(b) a public library in Australia; or

(c) a public museum in Australia; or

(d) a public art gallery in Australia; or

(e) an institution in Australia consisting of a public library, a public museum and a public art gallery or any 2 of them.

A gift of property (except an estate or interest in land or in a building or part of a building).

The general rule is that you can deduct the average of the *GST inclusive market values (as reduced under subsection (3) if that subsection applies) specified in the written valuations you get from approved valuers.

Subdivision 30C sets out:

(a) how a person becomes an approved valuer; and

(b) the exceptions to the general rule; and

(c) the situations when the amount you can deduct is reduced.

If the property is jointly owned, see section 30225 to work out how much of the gift you can deduct.

(a) the property must be accepted by the recipient for inclusion in a collection it is maintaining or establishing; and

(b) the value of the gift must be $2 or more; and

(ba) the institution must meet the requirements of section 3017, unless it is the Australiana Fund; and

(c) you must satisfy the valuation requirements in section 30200, unless section 30205 (about the proceeds of the sale being assessable) applies.

5

The Commonwealth (for the purposes of Artbank).

A gift of property (except an estate or interest in land or in a building or part of a building).

The general rule is that you can deduct the average of the *GST inclusive market values (as reduced under subsection (3) if that subsection applies) specified in the written valuations you get from approved valuers.

Subdivision 30C sets out:

(a) how a person becomes an approved valuer; and

(b) the exceptions to the general rule; and

(c) the situations when the amount you can deduct is reduced.

If the property is jointly owned, see section 30225 to work out how much of the gift you can deduct.

(a) the property must be accepted by the Commonwealth for inclusion in a collection maintained, or being established, for the purposes of Artbank; and

(b) you must satisfy the valuation requirements in section 30200, unless section 30205 (about the proceeds of the sale being assessable) applies.

6

(a) the National Trust of Australia (New South Wales); or

(b) the National Trust of Australia (Victoria); or

(c) National Trust of Australia (Queensland) Limited; or

(d) The National Trust of South Australia; or

(e) The National Trust of Australia (W.A.); or

(f) the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania); or

(g) The National Trust of Australia (Northern Territory); or

(h) the National Trust of Australia (A.C.T.); or

(i) the Australian Council of National Trusts.

A gift of a place included in:

(a) the National Heritage List, or the Commonwealth Heritage List, under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999; or

(b) the Register of the National Estate under the Australian Heritage Council Act 2003.

The general rule is that you can deduct the average of the *GST inclusive market values (as reduced under subsection (3) if that subsection applies) specified in the written valuations you get from approved valuers.

Subdivision 30C sets out:

(a) how a person becomes an approved valuer; and

(b) the exceptions to the general rule; and

(c) the situations when the amount you can deduct is reduced.

If the place is jointly owned, see
section 30225 to work out how much of the gift you can deduct.

(a) the place must be accepted by the recipient for the purpose of preserving it for the benefit of the public; and

(b) the value of the gift must be $2 or more; and

(c) you must satisfy the valuation requirements in section 30200, unless section 30205 (about the proceeds of the sale being assessable) applies.

7

A *deductible gift recipient that is a fund, authority or institution covered by item 1 or 2 of this table.

A contribution of:

(a) money, if the amount is more than $150; or

(b) property that you purchased during the 12 months before making the contribution, if the lesser of:

 the *market value of the property on the day you made the contribution; and

 the amount you paid for the property;

 is more than $150; or

(c) property valued by the Commissioner at more than $5,000, if you did not purchase the property during the 12 months before making the contribution; or

(a) if the contribution is money—the amount of the contribution, reduced by the *GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the right to attend, or participate in, the fundraising event; or

(b) if the contribution is property that you purchased during the 12 months before making the contribution—the lesser of:

 the market value of the property on the day you made the contribution; and

 the amount you paid for the property;

 reduced by the GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the right to attend, or participate in, the fundraising event; or

(a) if the contribution is money—the GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the right to attend, or participate in, the fundraising event must not exceed the lesser of:

 20% of the amount of the contribution; and

 $150; and

 

 

(ca) *shares that you have acquired in a *listed public company if:

 the shares are listed for quotation in the official list of a stock exchange that is listed under the heading “Australia” in regulations made for the purposes of the definition of *approved stock exchange; and

 the market value of the shares on the day you made the contribution is more than $150 and less than or equal to $5,000; and

 you acquire the shares at least 12 months before making the contribution;

(c) if the contribution is property valued by the Commissioner at more than $5,000 and you did not purchase the property during the 12 months before making the contribution—the value of the property as determined by the Commissioner, reduced by the GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the right to attend, or participate in, the fundraising event; or

(ca) if the contribution is shares described in paragraph (ca) of the previous column—the market value of the shares on the day you made the contribution, reduced by the GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the right to attend, or participate in, the fundraising event.

(b) if the contribution is property that you purchased during the 12 months before making the contribution—the GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the right to attend, or participate in, the fundraising event must not exceed the lesser of:

 20% of the lesser of the market value of the property on the day you made the contribution and the amount you paid for the property; and

 $150; and

 

 

where:

(d) the contribution is not a gift; and

(e) either:

 the contribution is made in return for a right permitting you to attend, or participate in, a particular *fundraising event in Australia; or

 the contribution is made in return for a right permitting an individual (other than you) to attend, or participate in, a particular fundraising event in Australia.

 

(c) if the contribution is property valued by the Commissioner at more than $5,000 and you did not purchase the property during the 12 months before making the contribution—the GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the right to attend, or participate in, the fundraising event must not exceed $150; and

 

 

 

 

(ca) if the contribution is shares described in paragraph (ca) of the column headed “Type of gift or contribution”—the GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the right to attend, or participate in, the fundraising event must not exceed the lesser of:

 20% of the market value of the shares on the day you made the contribution; and

 $150; and

 

 

 

 

(d) if, instead of making the contribution, you had made a gift of money to the fund, authority or institution, and:

 the amount of the gift had been more than $2; and

 the gift had been made for the same purpose for which funds were to be raised by the fundraising event;

 you could have deducted the gift under item 1 or 2 of this table; and

(e) you must be an individual; and

 

 

 

 

(f) you cannot deduct more than 2 contributions in relation to the same fundraising event; and

(g) if the property is to be valued by the Commissioner—the requirements of section 30212 are satisfied.

8

A *deductible gift recipient that is a fund, authority or institution covered by item 1 or 2 of this table.

A contribution of money, if:

(a) the amount is more than $150; and

(b) the contribution is not a gift; and

(c) you made the contribution by way of consideration for the supply of goods or services; and

The amount of the contribution, reduced by the GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the goods or services.

(a) the GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the goods or services must not exceed the lesser of:

 20% of the amount of the contribution; and

 $150; and

 

 

(d) you made the contribution because you were the successful bidder at an auction that:

 was a particular *fundraising event in Australia; or

 was held at a particular fundraising event in Australia; and

(e) the amount of the contribution exceeds the *GST inclusive market value, on the day you made the contribution, of the goods or services.

 

(b) if, instead of making the contribution, you had made a gift of money to the fund, authority or institution, and:

 the amount of the gift had been more than $2; and

 the gift had been made for the same purpose for which funds were to be raised by the fundraising event;

 you could have deducted the gift under item 1 or 2 of this table; and

(c) you must be an individual.

 (3) For the purposes of items 4, 5 and 6 of the table in subsection (2), the *GST inclusive market values of the property or place in question are reduced by 1/11 if you would have been entitled to an *input tax credit if:

 (a) you had *acquired the property or place at the time you made the gift; and

 (b) your acquisition had been for a *creditable purpose.

 (4) For the purposes of item 7 of the table in subsection (2), in working out the *GST inclusive market value of the right in question, disregard anything that would prevent or restrict conversion of the right to money.

 (5) For the purposes of item 8 of the table in subsection (2), in working out the *GST inclusive market value of the goods or services in question, disregard anything that would prevent or restrict conversion of the goods or services to money.

3017  Requirements for certain recipients

 (1) This section sets out requirements to be met for you to be able to deduct a gift you make to a fund, authority or institution described in the column headed “Recipient” of item 1, 2 or 4 of the table in section 3015. However, this section does not apply to:

 (a) a fund, authority or institution that is mentioned by name in an item of a table in Subdivision 30B; or

 (c) the Australiana Fund.

 (2) The fund, authority or institution must:

 (a) be an entity or *government entity that is endorsed under Subdivision 30BA as a *deductible gift recipient; or

 (b) in the case of a fund—either:

 (i) be owned legally by an entity that is endorsed under Subdivision 30BA as a *deductible gift recipient for the operation of the fund; or

 (ii) be under the control of one or more persons who constitute a *government entity that is endorsed under Subdivision 30BA as a *deductible gift recipient for the operation of the fund; or

 (c) in the case of an authority or institution—be part of an entity or *government entity that is endorsed under Subdivision 30BA as a *deductible gift recipient for the operation of the authority or institution.

Example: A public fund that is established and maintained for constructing a building to be used by a State school and is controlled by the principal of the school would be an example of a fund under the control of one or more persons who constitute a government entity that is endorsed as a deductible gift recipient for the operation of the fund, if the school were so endorsed.

Subdivision 30BTables of recipients for deductible gifts

Table of sections

Health

3020 Health

Education

3025 Education

3030 Gifts that must be for certain purposes

3035 Rural schools hostel buildings

3037 Scholarship etc. funds

Research

3040 Research

Welfare and rights

3045 Welfare and rights

3045A Australian disaster relief funds—declarations by Minister

3046 Australian disaster relief funds—declarations under State and Territory law

Defence

3050 Defence

Environment

3055 The environment

3060 Gifts to a National Parks body or conservation body must satisfy certain requirements

Industry, trade and design

3065 Industry, trade and design

The family

3070 The family

3075 Marriage education organisations must be approved

International affairs

3080 International affairs

3085 Developing country relief funds

3086 Developed country disaster relief funds

Sports and recreation

3090 Sports and recreation

Philanthropic trusts

3095 Philanthropic trusts

Cultural organisations

30100 Cultural organisations

Fire and emergency services

30102 Fire and emergency services

Other recipients

30105 Other recipients

Health

3020  Health

 (1) This table sets out general categories of health recipients.

 

Health—General

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—gift

1.1.1

a public hospital

the public hospital must be:

(a) an *Australian government agency; or

(b) a *registered charity

none

1.1.2

a hospital carried on by a society or association

the society or association must be a *registered charity

none

1.1.3

a public fund maintained for:

(a) the purpose of providing money for hospitals covered by item 1.1.1 or 1.1.2; or

(b) the establishment of such hospitals

(a) the public fund must have been established before 23 October 1963; and

(b) the public fund must:

(i) be registered under the Australian Charities and Notforprofits Commission Act 2012; or

(ii) not be an *ACNC type of entity; and

(c) the hospitals must satisfy the special conditions set out in item 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 (as applicable)

none

1.1.4

a public authority engaged in research into the causes, prevention or cure of disease in human beings, animals or plants

the public authority must be:

(a) an *Australian government agency; or

(b) a *registered charity

the gift must be made for such research

1.1.5

a public institution engaged solely in research into the causes, prevention or cure of disease in human beings, animals or plants

the public institution must be:

(a) an *Australian government agency; or

(b) a *registered charity

none

1.1.6

a *registered health promotion charity

none

none

1.1.7

a public ambulance service

the public ambulance service must be:

(a) an *Australian government agency; or

(b) a *registered charity

none

1.1.8

a public fund established and maintained for the purpose of providing money for public ambulance services covered by item 1.1.7

(a) the public fund must:

(i) be registered under the Australian Charities and Notforprofits Commission Act 2012; or

(ii) not be an *ACNC type of entity; and

(b) the public ambulance services must satisfy the special conditions set out in item 1.1.7

none

1.1.9

a *community shed

the community shed must be a *registered charity

none

 (2) This table sets out specific health recipients.

 

Health—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

1.2.1

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

none

1.2.4

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists

the gift must be made for education or research in medical knowledge or science

1.2.5

the New South Wales College of Nursing

none

1.2.6

the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

none

1.2.7

the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

the gift must be made for education or research in medical knowledge or science

1.2.8

the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

none

1.2.9

the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

none

1.2.10

the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia

the gift must be made for education or research in medical knowledge or science

1.2.12

the Royal College of Nursing, Australia

none

1.2.13

the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

none

1.2.14

SouthCare Helicopter Fund

the gift must be made after 11 September 2000

1.2.18

The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine

the gift must be made after 2 February 2009

1.2.19

Cancer Australia

the gift must be made:

(a) after 8 June 2011; and

(b) for improving outcomes for Australians affected by breast cancer

1.2.20

The Australasian College of Dermatologists

the gift must be made for education or research in medical knowledge or science

1.2.21

College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand

the gift must be made for education or research in medical knowledge or science

1.2.22

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists

the gift must be made for education or research in medical knowledge or science

Education

3025  Education

 (1) This table sets out general categories of education recipients.

 

Education—General

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—gift

2.1.1

a public university

the public university must be:

(a) an *Australian government agency; or

(b) a *registered charity

none

2.1.2

a public fund for the establishment of a public university

(a) the public fund must be:

(i) an *Australian government agency; or

(ii) a *registered charity; or

(iii) operated by an Australian government agency or registered charity; and

(b) the public university must satisfy the special conditions set out in item 2.1.1

none

2.1.3

an institution that is a higher education provider within the meaning of the Higher Education Support Act 2003

the institution must be:

(a) an *Australian government agency; or

(b) a *registered charity

none

2.1.4

a residential educational institution affiliated under statutory provisions with a public university

(a) the residential educational institution must be a *registered charity; and

(b) the public university must satisfy the special conditions set out in item 2.1.1

none

2.1.5

a residential educational institution established by the Commonwealth

none

none

2.1.6

a residential educational institution that is affiliated with an institution that is a higher education provider within the meaning of the Higher Education Support Act 2003

(a) the residential educational institution must be:

(i) an *Australian government agency; or

(ii) a *registered charity; and

(b) the higher education provider must satisfy the special conditions set out in item 2.1.3

none

2.1.7

an institution that the *Student Assistance Minister has determined to be a technical and further education institution under the Student Assistance Act 1973

the institution must be:

(a) an *Australian government agency; or

(b) a *registered charity

see section 3030

2.1.8

a public fund established and maintained solely for the purpose of providing religious instruction in government schools in Australia

the public fund must:

(a) be registered under the Australian Charities and Notforprofits Commission Act 2012; or

(b) not be an *ACNC type of entity

none

2.1.9

a public fund established and maintained by a Roman Catholic archdiocesan or diocesan authority solely for the purpose of providing religious instruction in government schools in Australia

the public fund must:

(a) be registered under the Australian Charities and Notforprofits Commission Act 2012; or

(b) not be an *ACNC type of entity

none

2.1.9A

a public fund established and maintained solely for the purpose of providing education in ethics:

(a) in government schools in Australia; and

(b) as an alternative to religious instruction, in accordance with *State law or *Territory law

the public fund must be:

(a) a *registered charity; or

(b) operated by a registered charity

none

2.1.10

a public fund established and maintained solely for providing money for the acquisition, construction or maintenance of a building used, or to be used, as a school or college by:

(a) a government; or

(b) a public authority; or

the public fund must:

(a) be registered under the Australian Charities and Notforprofits Commission Act 2012; or

(b) not be an *ACNC type of entity

none

 

(c) a society or association which is carried on otherwise than for the purposes of profit or gain to the individual members of the society or association

 

 

2.1.11

a public fund established and maintained solely for providing money for the acquisition, construction or maintenance of a rural school hostel building to which section 3035 applies

the public fund must:

(a) be registered under the Australian Charities and Notforprofits Commission Act 2012; or

(b) not be an *ACNC type of entity

none

2.1.12

a government school that:

(a) provides special education for students each of whom has a disability that is permanent or is likely to be permanent; and

(b) does not provide education for other students

none

none

2.1.13

a public fund that is established and maintained solely for providing money for scholarships, bursaries or prizes to which section 3037 applies

the public fund must be:

(a) a *registered charity; or

(b) operated by a registered charity

none

 (2) This table sets out specific education recipients.

 

Education—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

2.2.1

The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Incorporated

none

2.2.2

the Australian Academy of Science

none

2.2.3

the Australian Academy of the Humanities for the Advancement of Scholarship in Language, Literature, History, Philosophy and the Fine Arts

none

2.2.4

the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Limited

none

2.2.5

Aurora Education Foundation Limited

the gift must be made after 30 June 2013

2.2.6

the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

none

2.2.8

the Life Education Centre

none

2.2.9

a company that conducts life education programs under the auspices of the Life Education Centre if the company:

(a) is not carried on for the purposes of profit or gain to its individual members; and

(b) is prohibited by its *constitution from making any distribution of money or property to its members

the gift must be for the conduct of such programs

2.2.10

the Council for Christian Education in Schools

none

2.2.11

the Council for Jewish Education in Schools

none

2.2.13

the Lionel Murphy Foundation

none

2.2.14

the Marcus Oldham Farm Management College

see section 3030

2.2.16

the Polly Farmer Foundation (Inc)

none

2.2.17

The Australian Council of Christians and Jews

the gift must be made after 6 December 1998

2.2.18

Sir William Tyree Foundation

the gift must be made after 28 February 1999

2.2.20

Australian Nuffield Farming Scholars Association

the gift must be made after 16 April 2001

2.2.21

Dymocks Children’s Charities Limited

the gift must be made after 4 January 2001

2.2.22

Australian Primary Principals Association Education Foundation

the gift must be made after 1 October 2001

2.2.23

Commonwealth Study Conferences (Australia) Incorporated

the gift must be made after 19 February 2001

2.2.24

Mt Eliza Graduate School of Business and Government Limited

the gift must be made after 4 April 2000

2.2.25

Australian Human Rights Education Fund

the gift must be made after 24 September 2001

2.2.26

Aboriginal Education Council (N.S.W.) Incorporated

the gift must be made after 6 May 2002

2.2.27

General Sir John Monash Foundation

the gift must be made after 16 June 2002

2.2.28

AustralianAmerican Educational Foundation

the gift must be made after 30 April 2003

2.2.29

The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation Limited

the gift must be made after 11 October 2002

2.2.30

The Constitution Education Fund

the gift must be made after 20 June 2003

2.2.31

Country Education Foundation of Australia Limited

the gift must be made on or after 20 August 2003

2.2.32

Clontarf Foundation

the gift must be made after 30 August 2004

2.2.33

International Specialised Skills Institute Incorporated

the gift must be made after 11 August 2005

2.2.34

Yachad Accelerated Learning Project Limited

the gift must be made after 29 June 2005 and before 1 July 2015

2.2.36

The Spirit of Australia Foundation

the gift must be made after 10 September 2007

2.2.37

The Royal Institution of Australia Incorporated

the gift must be made after 16 April 2009

2.2.38

One Laptop per Child Australia Ltd

the gift must be made after 26 May 2010 and before 1 July 2016

2.2.39

The Charlie Perkins Scholarship Trust

the gift must be made after 1 August 2010

2.2.40

Roberta Sykes Indigenous Education Foundation

the gift must be made after 1 August 2010

2.2.41

Teach for Australia

the gift must be made after 31 December 2012

2.2.42

The Conversation Trust

the gift must be made after 21 November 2012

2.2.43

Australian Schools Plus Ltd

the gift must be made on or after 1 April 2014

2.2.44

Australian Science Innovations Incorporated

the gift must be made on or after 1 January 2016

2.2.45

Smile Like Drake Foundation Limited

the gift must be made after 8 March 2018 and before 9 March 2023

2.2.46

The Q Foundation Trust

the gift must be made after 31 December 2017 and before 1 January 2023

2.2.47

Governor Phillip International Scholarship Trust

the gift must be made after 30 June 2018 and before 1 July 2025

2.2.48

High Resolves

the gift must be made after 30 June 2018 and before 1 July 2025

2.2.49

Australian Academy of Law

the gift must be made after 30 June 2019 and before 1 July 2025

2.2.50

Superannuation Consumers’ Centre Ltd

the gift must be made after 30 June 2019 and before 1 July 2025

3030  Gifts that must be for certain purposes

 (1) You can deduct a gift that you make to:

 (a) a technical and further education institution covered by item 2.1.7 of the table in subsection 3025(1); or

 (b) the Marcus Oldham Farm Management College;

only if the gift is for:

 (c) purposes of the institution, or of the College, that have been declared by the *Student Assistance Minister to relate solely to tertiary education; or

 (d) the provision of facilities for the institution, or the College, if the Student Assistance Minister has declared that he or she is satisfied the facilities are to be used principally for such purposes.

 (2) A declaration under subsection (1) must be in writing, signed by the Minister.

3035  Rural schools hostel buildings

 (1) For the purposes of item 2.1.11 of the table in subsection 3025(1), a rural school hostel building is one to which this section applies if it meets the conditions in subsections (2), (3) and (4).

 (2) The rural school hostel building must be used, or going to be used, principally as residential accommodation for students:

 (a) whose usual place of residence is in a rural area; and

 (b) who are undertaking primary or secondary education, or special education programs for children with disabilities, at a school in the same area as the building.

 (3) The costs of the school must be solely or partly funded by the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.

 (4) The residential accommodation must be provided by:

 (a) the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or

 (b) a public authority; or

 (c) a company that:

 (i) is not carried on for the purposes of profit or gain to its individual members; and

 (ii) is prohibited by its *constitution from making any distribution of money or property to its members.

3037  Scholarship etc. funds

  For the purposes of item 2.1.13 of the table in subsection 3025(1), a scholarship, bursary or prize is one to which this section applies if:

 (a) it may only be awarded to Australian citizens, or permanent residents of Australia, within the meaning of the Australian Citizenship Act 2007; and

 (b) it is open to individuals or groups of individuals throughout a region of at least 200,000 people, or throughout at least an entire State or Territory; and

 (c) it promotes recipients’ education in either or both of the following:

 (i) *preschool courses, *primary courses, *secondary courses or *tertiary courses;

 (ii) educational institutions overseas, by way of study of a component of a course covered by subparagraph (i); and

 (d) it is awarded on merit or for reasons of equity.

Research

3040  Research

 (1) This table sets out general categories of research recipients.

 

Research—General

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—gift

3.1.1

a university, college, institute, association or organisation which is an approved research institute for the purposes of section 73A (Expenditure on scientific research) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

the approved research institute must:

(a) be registered under the Australian Charities and Notforprofits Commission Act 2012; or

(b) not be an *ACNC type of entity

the gift must be made for purposes of scientific research in the field of natural or applied science

 (2) This table sets out specific research recipients.

 

Research—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

3.2.1

the Centre for Independent Studies

none

3.2.2

the Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation

none

3.2.4

The Menzies Research Centre Public Fund

the gift must be made after 2 April 1998

3.2.5

The Sir Earl Page Memorial Trust

the gift must be made after 6 May 2001

3.2.6

Research Australia Limited

the gift must be made after 26 June 2001

3.2.7

The Page Research Centre Limited

the gift must be made after 12 January 2005

3.2.8

The Chifley Research Centre Limited

the gift must be made after 19 May 2005

3.2.9

Don Chipp Foundation Ltd

the gift must be made after 26 June 2006

3.2.10

Lingiari Policy Centre

the gift must be made after 25 July 2006

3.2.11

Grattan Institute

the gift must be made after 4 March 2009 and before 5 March 2011

3.2.12

The Green Institute Limited

the gift must be made after 23 June 2009

3.2.13

United States Studies Centre

the gift must be made after 26 July 2009

3.2.14

The Ethics Centre Limited

the gift must be made on or after 24 February 2016

3.2.15

Centre For Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation Limited

the gift must be made after 1 January 2017 and before 31 December 2021

3.2.16

The Samuel Griffith Society Inc.

the gift must be made after 30 June 2019

Welfare and rights

3045  Welfare and rights

 (1) This table sets out general categories of welfare and rights recipients.

 

Welfare and rights—General

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—gift

4.1.1

a *registered public benevolent institution

none

none

4.1.2

a public fund maintained for the purpose of providing money for:

(a) *registered public benevolent institutions; or

(b) the establishment of registered public benevolent institutions

the public fund must:

(a) have been established before 23 October 1963; and

(b) be:

(i) a *registered charity; or

(ii) operated by a registered charity

none

4.1.3

a public fund established and maintained for the purpose of relieving the necessitous circumstances of one or more individuals who are in Australia

the public fund must:

(a) be an *Australian government agency; or

(b) be a *registered charity; or

(c) not be an *ACNC type of entity

none

4.1.4

a public fund that, when the gift is made, is on the register of *harm prevention charities kept under Subdivision 30EA

the public fund must be:

(a) a *registered charity; or

(b) operated by a registered charity

the gift must be made after 30 June 2003

4.1.5

a public fund (including a public fund established and maintained by a public benevolent institution) that is established and maintained solely for providing money for the relief (including relief by way of assistance to reestablish a community) of people in Australia in distress as a result of a disaster to which subsection 3045A(1) or 3046(1) applies

the public fund must:

(a) be:

(i) an *Australian government agency; or

(ii) a *registered charity; or

(b) be operated by:

(i) an Australian government agency; or

(ii) a registered charity

see subsections 3045A(4) and 3046(2)

4.1.6

an institution whose principal activity is one or both of the following:

(a) providing shortterm direct care to animals (but not only native wildlife) that have been lost or mistreated or are without owners;

(b) rehabilitating orphaned, sick or injured animals (but not only native wildlife) that have been lost or mistreated or are without owners

the institution must be a *registered charity

none

4.1.7

an institution that would be a public benevolent institution, but for one or both of the following:

(a) it also promotes the prevention or the control of diseases in human beings (but not as a principal activity);

(b) it also promotes the prevention or the control of *behaviour that is harmful or abusive to human beings (but not as a principal activity)

the institution must be a *registered charity

none

 (2) This table sets out specific welfare and rights recipients.

 

Welfare and rights—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

4.2.1

Amnesty International Australia

none

4.2.2

the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia

none

4.2.3

the National Foundation for Australian Women Limited

none

4.2.4

the National Safety Council of Australia Limited

none

4.2.5

United Way Australia

the gift must be made after 25 April 2013

4.2.6

the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals New South Wales

none

4.2.7

the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Victoria) Inc.

none

4.2.8

Australian Neighbourhood Houses & Centres Association (ANHCA) Inc.

the gift must be made after 30 June 2013

4.2.9

the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (South Australia) Incorporated

none

4.2.10

the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Western Australia

none

4.2.11

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tasmania

none

4.2.12

the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Northern Territory)

none

4.2.13

the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (A.C.T.) Incorporated

none

4.2.14

RSPCA Australia

none

4.2.15

the Australian Council of Social Service Incorporated

the gift must be made after 30 June 2013

4.2.19

Reconciliation Australia Limited

the gift must be made after 6 December 2000

4.2.20

Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Queensland Incorporated

the gift must be made after 22 December 1999

4.2.21

Crime Stoppers Western Australia Limited

the gift must be made after 31 October 2002

4.2.22

New South Wales Crime Stoppers Limited

the gift must be made after 31 October 2002

4.2.23

Crime Stoppers Tasmania

the gift must be made after 28 November 2002

4.2.24

Crime Stoppers Queensland Limited

the gift must be made after 23 January 2003

4.2.25

Crime Stoppers Australia Ltd

the gift must be made after 4 June 2003

4.2.26

Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation Limited

the gift must be made after 5 June 2003

4.2.27

Crime Stoppers South Australia Limited

the gift must be made on or after 19 September 2003

4.2.28

International Social Service Australian Branch

the gift must be made after 17 March 2004

4.2.29

the Victorian Crime Stoppers Program

the gift must be made after 22 April 2004

4.2.31

Crime Stoppers Northern Territory Program

the gift must be made after 13 March 2005

4.2.31A

ACT Region Crime Stoppers Limited

the gift must be made after 12 February 2009

4.2.32

Kidsafe ACT (Inc.)

the gift must be made after 2 August 2007

4.2.33

Kidsafe New South Wales (Inc.)

the gift must be made after 2 August 2007

4.2.34

Kidsafe NT (Inc.)

the gift must be made after 2 August 2007

4.2.35

Kidsafe Qld (Inc.)

the gift must be made after 2 August 2007

4.2.36

Kidsafe SA Incorporated

the gift must be made after 2 August 2007

4.2.37

Kidsafe Tasmania (Inc)

the gift must be made after 2 August 2007

4.2.38

Kidsafe Vic (Inc.)

the gift must be made after 2 August 2007

4.2.39

Kidsafe Western Australia (Inc)

the gift must be made after 2 August 2007

4.2.40

Ian Thorpe’s Fountain for youth Limited

the gift must be made after 28 February 2008

4.2.42

National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples Limited

the gift must be made after 30 June 2013

4.2.43

2017 Bourke Street Fund Trust Account

the gift must be made:

(a) after 20 January 2017; and

(b) before 21 January 2022

4.2.44

Victorian Pride Centre Ltd

the gift must be made after 8 March 2018 and before 9 March 2023

4.2.45

Australian Volunteers Support Trust

the gift must be made after 30 June 2019

4.2.46

Community Rebuilding Trust

the gift must be made after 30 June 2019

4.2.47

Motherless Daughters Australia Limited

the gift must be made after 30 June 2019 and before 1 July 2025

3045A  Australian disaster relief funds—declarations by Minister

 (1) For the purposes of item 4.1.5 of the table in subsection 3045(1), an event is a disaster to which this subsection applies if the Minister has declared it to be a disaster. The Minister may do so if satisfied that:

 (a) it developed rapidly; and

 (b) it resulted in the death, serious injury or other physical suffering of a large number of people, or in widespread damage to property or the natural environment.

 (2) The Minister’s declaration of an event as a disaster:

 (a) must be in writing; and

 (b) must specify the day (or the first day) of the event; and

 (c) must be published on the internet or by another method determined by the Minister.

 (3) The Minister’s declaration of an event as a disaster is not a legislative instrument.

 (4) You can deduct a gift that you make to a public fund covered by item 4.1.5 of the table in subsection 3045(1), in relation to a disaster to which subsection (1) of this section applies, only within the 2 years beginning on the day specified in the declaration as the day (or the first day) of the event for which the fund is to provide relief.

Note: Public funds under item 4.1.5 of the table in subsection 3045(1) are for disaster relief of people in Australia. Public funds may also be established for disaster relief of people in other countries. See items 9.1.1 (which is not limited to disaster relief) and 9.1.2 of the table in section 3080.

3046  Australian disaster relief funds—declarations under State and Territory law

 (1) For the purposes of item 4.1.5 of the table in subsection 3045(1), a disaster is one to which this subsection applies if:

 (a) it is declared to be a disaster, or it gives rise to a declaration of a state of emergency, by or with the approval of a Minister of a State or Territory under the law of the State or Territory; and

 (b) it developed rapidly; and

 (c) it resulted in the death, serious injury or other physical suffering of a large number of people, or in widespread damage to property or the natural environment; and

 (d) subsection 3045A(1) does not apply to it.

 (2) You can deduct a gift that you make to a public fund covered by item 4.1.5 of the table in subsection 3045(1), in relation to a disaster to which subsection (1) of this section applies, only within the 2 years beginning:

 (a) if the day (or the first day) on which the event occurred is specified in the declaration mentioned in paragraph (1)(a)—on that day; or

 (b) otherwise—on the day of the declaration.

Note: Public funds under item 4.1.5 of the table in subsection 3045(1) are for disaster relief of people in Australia. Public funds may also be established for disaster relief of people in other countries. See items 9.1.1 (which is not limited to disaster relief) and 9.1.2 of the table in section 3080.

Defence

3050  Defence

 (1) This table sets out general categories of defence recipients.

 

Defence—General

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—gift

5.1.1

the Commonwealth or a State

none

the gift must be made for purposes of defence

5.1.2

a public institution or public fund established and maintained for the comfort, recreation or welfare of members of:

(a) the armed forces of any part of Her Majesty’s dominions; or

(b) any allied or other foreign force serving in association with Her Majesty’s armed forces

the public institution or public fund must be:

(a) an *Australian government agency; or

(b) a *registered charity; or

(c) in the case of a public fund—operated by an Australian government agency or registered charity

none

5.1.3

a public fund established and maintained solely for providing money to reconstruct, or make critical repairs to, a particular war memorial that:

(a) is located in Australia; and

(b) commemorates events in a conflict in which Australia was involved, or people who are mainly Australians and who participated on Australia’s behalf in a conflict; and

 

the public fund must be:

(a) an *Australian government agency; or

(b) a *registered charity; or

(c) operated by an Australian government agency or registered charity

the gift must be made within the 2 years beginning on the day on which:

(a) the fund; or

(b) if the fund is legally owned by an entity that is endorsed for the operation of the fund—the entity;

is endorsed as a *deductible gift recipient under Subdivision 30BA

 

(c) is a focus for public commemoration of the events or people mentioned in paragraph (b); and

(d) is solely or mainly used for that public commemoration

 

 

 (2) This table sets out specific defence recipients.

 

Defence—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

5.2.11

The RSL Foundation

the gift must be made after 20 September 2000

5.2.26

C E W Bean Foundation

the gift must be made after 14 November 2005 and before 15 November 2007

5.2.28

The Bathurst War Memorial Carillon Public Fund Trust

the gift must be made after 2 August 2007 and before 3 August 2009

5.2.29

AE 2 Commemorative Foundation Ltd

the gift must be made after 28 February 2008 and before 1 March 2010

5.2.30

Memorials Development Committee Ltd

the gift must be made after 4 September 2007 and before 1 July 2010

5.2.31

the Anzac Centenary Public Fund

the gift must be made after 30 November 2012 and before 1 May 2019

5.2.32

the Australian Peacekeeping Memorial Project Incorporated

the gift must be made after 31 December 2012 and before 1 January 2018

5.2.33

National Boer War Memorial Association Incorporated

the gift must be made after 31 December 2012 and before 1 January 2018

5.2.34

Melbourne Korean War Memorial Committee Incorporated

the gift must be made after 31 December 2017 and before 1 January 2020

5.2.35

The Headstone Project (Tas) Inc.

the gift must be made after 30 June 2019 and before 1 July 2025

Environment

3055  The environment

 (1) This table sets out general categories of environment recipients.

 

The environment—General

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

6.1.1

a public fund that, when the gift is made, is on the register of *environmental organisations kept under Subdivision 30E

none

 (2) This table sets out specific environment recipients.

 

The environment—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

6.2.1

the Australian Conservation Foundation Incorporated

see section 3060

6.2.2

Greening Australia Limited

see section 3060

6.2.3

Landcare Australia Limited

see section 3060

6.2.4

the National Parks Association of New South Wales

see section 3060

6.2.5

the Victorian National Parks Association Incorporated

see section 3060

6.2.6

Trust for Nature (Victoria)

see section 3060

6.2.7

the National Parks Association of Queensland

see section 3060

6.2.8

The Nature Conservation Society of South Australia Incorporated

see section 3060

6.2.9

the Nature Foundation SA Incorporated

see section 3060

6.2.10

the Western Australian National Parks and Reserves Association Incorporated

see section 3060

6.2.11

the Tasmanian Conservation Trust Incorporated

see section 3060

6.2.12

the National Parks Association of the Australian Capital Territory Incorporated

see section 3060

6.2.13

the National Trust of Australia (New South Wales)

none

6.2.14

the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)

none

6.2.15

National Trust of Australia (Queensland) Limited

none

6.2.16

The National Trust of South Australia

none

6.2.17

The National Trust of Australia (W.A.)

none

6.2.18

the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania)

none

6.2.19

The National Trust of Australia (Northern Territory)

none

6.2.20

the National Trust of Australia (A.C.T.)

none

6.2.21

the Australian Council of National Trusts

none

6.2.22

the World Wide Fund for Nature

see section 3060

6.2.23

Mawson’s Huts Foundation Limited

the gift must be made after 17 March 1997

3060  Gifts to a National Parks body or conservation body must satisfy certain requirements

  You can deduct a gift that you make to an environmental institution covered by any of table items 6.2.1 to 6.2.12 or 6.2.22 in subsection 3055(2) only if, at the time of making the gift:

 (a) if the institution is not a *registered charity—the institution has agreed to give the *Environment Secretary, within a reasonable period after the end of the income year in which you made the gift, statistical information about gifts made to the institution during that income year; and

 (b) the institution has a policy of not acting as a mere conduit for the donation of money or property to other entities.

Industry, trade and design

3065  Industry, trade and design

  This table sets out specific industry, trade and design recipients.

 

Industry, trade and design—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

7.2.3

WorldSkills Australia

none

7.2.5

Australian Business Week Limited

the gift must be made after 8 December 2003

The family

3070  The family

 (1) This table sets out general categories of family recipients.

 

The family—General

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—gift

8.1.1

a public fund established and maintained:

(a) by a *nonprofit company to which section 3075 applies; and

(b) solely for the purpose of providing money to be used in giving or providing marriage education under the Marriage Act 1961 to individuals in Australia

the public fund must be:

(a) a *registered charity; or

(b) operated by a registered charity

none

8.1.2

a public fund that is established and maintained:

(a) by a *nonprofit company which receives funding from the Commonwealth to provide family counselling or family dispute resolution within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975; and

(b) solely for the purpose of providing money to be used in providing family counselling or family dispute resolution within the meaning of the Family Law Act 1975 to individuals in Australia

the public fund must be:

(a) a *registered charity; or

(b) operated by a registered charity

none

 (2) This table sets out specific family recipients.

 

The family—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

8.2.3

Australian Breastfeeding Association

the gift must be made after 31 July 2001

8.2.4

Playgroup NSW (Inc).

the gift must be made after 14 April 2005

8.2.5

Playgroup WA (Inc)

the gift must be made after 13 March 2005

8.2.6

Playgroup Queensland Ltd

the gift must be made after 14 April 2005

8.2.7

Playgroup Tasmania Inc.

the gift must be made after 14 April 2005

8.2.8

Playgroup Association Northern Territory Incorporated

the gift must be made after 24 May 2005

8.2.9

ACT Playgroups Association Incorporated

the gift must be made after 14 April 2005

8.2.10

Playgroup Victoria Inc.

the gift must be made after 23 February 2006

8.2.11

Playgroup SA Inc

the gift must be made after 5 August 2006

8.2.12

Playgroup Australia Limited

the gift must be made after 2 August 2006

3075  Marriage education organisations must be approved

  For the purposes of item 8.1.1 of the table in subsection 3070(1), this section applies to a company if the company has been approved by the *Families Minister under section 9C of the Marriage Act 1961.

International affairs

3080  International affairs

 (1) This table sets out general categories of international affairs recipients.

 

International affairs—General

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—gift

9.1.1

a public fund declared by the Minister to be a developing country relief fund under section 3085

the public fund must be:

(a) a *registered charity; or

(b) operated by a registered charity

see section 3085

9.1.2

a public fund established and maintained by a *registered public benevolent institution solely for providing money for the relief (including relief by way of assistance to reestablish a community) of people in a country other than:

(a) Australia; and

(b) a country declared by the *Foreign Affairs Minister to be a developing country;

who are in distress as a result of a disaster to which subsection 3086(1) applies

none

see subsection 3086(4)

 (2) This table sets out specific international affairs recipients.

 

International affairs—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

9.2.1

the Australian Institute of International Affairs

none

9.2.2

The Diamond Jubilee Trust Australia

the gift must be made after 31 October 2012 and before 1 July 2015

9.2.3

The Foundation for Development Cooperation Ltd

none

9.2.4

Australian American Education Leadership Foundation Limited

the gift must be made after 26 January 1998

9.2.5

Sydney Talmudical College Association Refugees Overseas Aid Fund

the gift must be made after 29 January 1998

9.2.6

United Israel Appeal Refugee Relief Fund Limited

the gift must be made after 29 January 1998

9.2.7

the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre

the gift must be made after 6 December 1998

9.2.8

The Global Foundation

the gift must be made after 2 November 1999

9.2.9

AE1 Inc

the gift must be made after 25 September 2011 and before 26 September 2014

9.2.10

Australia for UNHCR

the gift must be made after 27 June 2007

9.2.11

The Australia Foundation in support of Human Rights Watch Limited

the gift must be made after 30 June 2013

9.2.12

Lowy Institute for International Policy

the gift must be made after 13 August 2003

9.2.13

The Rotary Leadership Victoria Australian Embassy for TimorLeste Fund Limited

the gift must be made after 7 November 2004 and before 1 January 2010

9.2.14

Make a Mark Australia Incorporated

the gift must be made after 30 June 2013

9.2.15

The East African Fund Limited

the gift must be made on or after 1 July 2014

9.2.17

Xanana Vocational Education Trust

the gift must be made after 20 July 2005 and before 1 January 2011

9.2.18

American Australian Association Limited

the gift must be made after 13 November 2006

9.2.19

WHEELCHAIRS FOR KIDS Incorporated

the gift must be made after 28 February 2008 and before 1 March 2010

9.2.21

Diplomacy Training Program Limited

the gift must be made after 16 April 2009

9.2.22

Sichuan Earthquake Surviving Children’s Education Fund

the gift must be made after 11 May 2008 and before 13 May 2010

9.2.25

Rhodes Trust in Australia

the gift must be made after 21 October 2011

9.2.26

International Jewish Relief Limited

the gift must be made on or after 1 January 2015

9.2.27

Cambridge Australia Scholarships Limited

the gift must be made on or after 1 July 2016 and before 1 July 2021

3085  Developing country relief funds

 (1) You can deduct a gift that you make to a public fund covered by item 9.1.1 of the table in subsection 3080(1) only if the declaration is in force at the time you make the gift.

 (2) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, declare a public fund to be a developing country relief fund if he or she is satisfied that the fund:

 (a) has been established by an organisation declared by the *Foreign Affairs Minister to be an approved organisation; and

 (b) is solely for the relief of people in a country that:

 (i) is included in the list of official development assistance recipients published from time to time by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee; or

 (ii) is declared by the Foreign Affairs Minister to be a developing country.

Note: In 2019, the list of official development assistance recipients was available on the OECD’s website (http://www.oecd.org).

 (3) A declaration made by the Minister under subsection (2) must not take effect earlier than the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation under the Legislation Act 2003.

 (4) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, revoke a declaration made by the Minister under subsection (2). The revocation must not take effect earlier than the day after the instrument is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation under the Legislation Act 2003.

 (5) A declaration by the *Foreign Affairs Minister under this section must be in writing, signed by the Foreign Affairs Minister.

3086  Developed country disaster relief funds

 (1) For the purposes of item 9.1.2 of the table in subsection 3080(1), a disaster is one to which this subsection applies if the Minister has recognised it as a disaster. The Minister may do so if satisfied that:

 (a) it developed rapidly; and

 (b) it resulted in the death, serious injury or other physical suffering of a large number of people, or in widespread damage to property or the natural environment.

 (2) The Minister’s recognition of an event as a disaster:

 (a) must be by notifiable instrument; and

 (b) must specify the day (or the first day) of the event.

 (4) You can deduct a gift that you make to a public fund covered by item 9.1.2 of the table in subsection 3080(1) only within the 2 years beginning on the day specified in the recognition as the day (or the first day) of the event for which the fund is to provide relief.

Note: A public fund may also be established for disaster relief of people in Australia (see item 4.1.5 of the table in section 3045).

Sports and recreation

3090  Sports and recreation

  This table sets out specific sports and recreation recipients.

 

Sports and recreation—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

10.2.1

the Australian Sports Foundation

none

10.2.2

Girl Guides Australia

none

10.2.3

an institution that is known as a State or Territory branch of Girl Guides Australia

none

10.2.4

the Scout Association of Australia

none

10.2.5

an institution that is known as a State or Territory branch of the Scout Association of Australia

none

10.2.7

The Bradman Memorial Fund

the gift must be made after 24 February 2001

10.2.8

Amy Gillett Foundation

the gift must be made after 13 September 2007

10.2.9

Australian Sports Foundation Charitable Fund

the gift must be made after 30 June 2018 and before 1 July 2023

Philanthropic trusts

3095  Philanthropic trusts

  This table sets out specific philanthropic trusts.

 

Philanthropic trusts—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

11.2.1

the Connellan Airways Trust

none

11.2.2

The Friends of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Australia Incorporated

none

11.2.4

the Playford Memorial Trust

none

11.2.5

The Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Foundation Limited

none

11.2.7

the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

none

11.2.8

The Foundation for Young Australians

the gift must be made after 6 May 2001

11.2.9

Visy Cares

the gift must be made after 19 June 2001

11.2.10

Australian Philanthropic Services Limited

the gift must be made after 30 June 2016

11.2.11

Australian Women Donors Network

the gift must be made after 8 March 2018 and before 9 March 2023

11.2.12

the Australian Ireland Fund Limited

none

11.2.13

Foundation Broken Hill Limited

the gift must be made after 30 June 2019 and before 1 July 2025

Cultural organisations

30100  Cultural organisations

 (1) This table sets out general categories of cultural recipients.

 

Cultural organisations—General

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—fund, authority or institution

Special conditions—gift

12.1.1

a public fund that, when the gift is made, is on the register of *cultural organisations kept under Subdivision 30F

none

none

12.1.2

a public library

the public library must:

(a) be:

(i) an *Australian government agency; or

(ii) a *registered charity; or

(b) be operated by:

(i) an Australian government agency; or

(ii) a registered charity

none

12.1.3

a public museum

the public museum must:

(a) be:

(i) an *Australian government agency; or

(ii) a *registered charity; or

(b) be operated by:

(i) an Australian government agency; or

(ii) a registered charity

none

12.1.4

a public art gallery

the public art gallery must:

(a) be:

(i) an *Australian government agency; or

(ii) a *registered charity; or

(b) be operated by:

(i) an Australian government agency; or

(ii) a registered charity

none

12.1.5

an institution consisting of a public library, public museum and public art gallery or of any 2 of them

the institution must:

(a) be:

(i) an *Australian government agency; or

(ii) a *registered charity; or

(b) be operated by:

(i) an Australian government agency; or

(ii) a registered charity

none

 (2) This table sets out specific cultural recipients.

 

Cultural organisations—Specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

12.2.1

The Australiana Fund

none

12.2.2

Australian Business Arts Foundation Ltd.

the gift must be made after 8 November 1996

12.2.3

The Ranfurly Library Service Incorporated

the gift must be made after 2 May 2006

12.2.4

National Arboretum Canberra Fund

the gift must be made after 30 June 2013

12.2.5

Sydney Chevra Kadisha

the gift must be made after 31 December 2017 and before 1 January 2021

12.2.6

C E W Bean Foundation

the gift must be made after 30 June 2018 and before 1 July 2025

Fire and emergency services

30102  Fire and emergency services

  This table sets out general categories of fire and emergency services recipients.

 

Fire and emergency services—General

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

12A.1.1

an *Australian government agency that has statutory responsibility for the coordination of volunteer fire brigades or State Emergency Services

the gift or contribution must be made for the purposes of supporting the coordination of volunteer fire brigades or State Emergency Services

12A.1.2

a public fund which satisfies all of the following requirements:

(a) the fund is established and maintained by an *Australian government agency covered by item 12A.1.1;

none

 

(b) the fund is established and maintained solely for the purpose of supporting the volunteer based emergency service activities of nonprofit entities or of Australian government agencies;

(c) the principal activity of the entities mentioned in paragraph (b) is the provision of volunteer based emergency services that are regulated by a *State law or a *Territory law

 

12A.1.3

a public fund which satisfies all of the following requirements:

(a) the fund is established and maintained by a nonprofit entity or *Australian government agency;

none

 

(b) the principal activity of the entity is the provision of volunteer based emergency services that are regulated by a *State law or a *Territory law;

 

 

(c) the fund is established and maintained solely for the purpose of supporting the volunteer based emergency service activities of the entity

 

Other recipients

30105  Other recipients

  This table sets out specific other recipients.

 

Other recipients—specific

Item

Fund, authority or institution

Special conditions

13.2.1

the Council for Jewish Community Security

the gift must be made after 9 August 2007

13.2.2

the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal Public Fund

the gift must be made after 28 March 2000

13.2.3

Young Endeavour Youth Scheme Public Fund

the gift must be made after 24 September 2001

13.2.3A

Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation Limited

the gift must be made after 16 April 2009

13.2.4

Layne Beachley Aim for the Stars Foundation Limited

the gift must be made after 30 June 2013

13.2.5

Social Traders Ltd

the gift must be made after 30 June 2013

13.2.7

Lord Somers Camp and Power House

the gift must be made after 4 March 2004

13.2.8

St George’s Cathedral Restoration Fund

the gift must be made after 27 September 2004 and before 1 January 2011

13.2.14A

Bunbury Diocese Cathedral Rebuilding Fund

the gift must be made after 18 December 2006 and before 19 December 2010

13.2.16

Social Ventures Australia Limited

the gift must be made after 3 May 2007

13.2.17

PWR Melbourne 2009 Limited

the gift must be made after 2 February 2009 and before 1 January 2010

13.2.18

Mary MacKillop Canonisation Gift Fund

the gift must be made after 4 August 2010 and before 1 July 2011

13.2.19

Philanthropy Australia Inc.

the gift must be made after 27 February 2013

13.2.20

The Prince’s Trust Australia Limited

the gift must be made after 31 December 2013

13.2.21

The Minderoo Foundation Trust

the gift must be made on or after 1 January 2014

13.2.22

National Apology Foundation Ltd

the gift must be made on or after 1 January 2015

13.2.23

Foundation 1901 Limited

the gift must be made after 31 August 2016 and before 1 September 2021

13.2.24

Paul Ramsay Foundation Limited

the gift must be made after 30 June 2018 and before 1 July 2020

13.2.25

Friends of Myall Creek Memorial Incorporated

the gift must be made after 30 June 2019

13.2.26

Toy Libraries Australia Inc.

the gift must be made after 30 June 2019

Subdivision 30BAEndorsement of deductible gift recipients

Guide to Subdivision 30BA

30115  What this Subdivision is about

This Subdivision sets out rules about endorsement of entities and government entities as deductible gift recipients. Endorsement of an entity described (except by name) in Subdivision 30A or 30B lets you deduct a gift you make to a fund, authority or institution that is, or is operated by, the entity.

Table of sections

Endorsement as a deductible gift recipient

30120 Endorsement by Commissioner

30125 Entitlement to endorsement

30130 Maintaining a gift fund

Government entities treated like entities

30180 How this Subdivision applies to government entities

Endorsement as a deductible gift recipient

30120  Endorsement by Commissioner

  If an entity applies for endorsement in accordance with Division 426 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953, the Commissioner must endorse the entity:

 (a) as a *deductible gift recipient, if the entity is entitled to be endorsed as a deductible gift recipient; or

 (b) as a *deductible gift recipient for the operation of a fund, authority or institution, if the entity is entitled to be endorsed as a deductible gift recipient for the operation of the fund, authority or institution.

Note: For procedural rules relating to endorsement, see Division 426 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

30125  Entitlement to endorsement

Endorsement of an entity that is a fund, authority or institution

 (1) An entity is entitled to be endorsed as a *deductible gift recipient if:

 (a) the entity has an *ABN; and

 (b) the entity is a fund, authority or institution that:

 (i) is described (but not by name) in item 1, 2 or 4 of the table in section 3015; and

 (ii) is not described by name in Subdivision 30B if it is described in item 1 of that table; and

 (iii) meets the relevant conditions (if any) identified in the column headed “Special conditions” of the item of that table in which it is described; and

 (c) the entity meets the requirements of subsection (6), unless:

 (i) the entity is established by an Act; and

 (ii) the Act (or another Act) does not provide for the winding up or termination of the entity; and

 (d) in the case of an *ancillary fund:

 (i) the fund complies with the rules in the *public ancillary fund guidelines or the *private ancillary fund guidelines (whichever are applicable); and

 (ii) all of the trustees of the fund comply with those rules.

Endorsement of an entity for operating a fund, authority etc.

 (2) An entity is entitled to be endorsed as a *deductible gift recipient for the operation of a fund, authority or institution that is described (but not by name) in item 1, 2 or 4 of the table in section 3015 and is not described by name in Subdivision 30B if:

 (a) the entity has an *ABN; and

 (b) the entity:

 (i) legally owns the fund; or

 (ii) includes the authority or institution; and

 (c) the fund, authority or institution meets the relevant conditions (if any) identified in the column headed “Special conditions” of that item; and

 (d) the entity meets the requirements of subsection (6), unless:

 (i) the entity is established by an Act; and

 (ii) the Act (or another Act) does not provide for the winding up or termination of the entity; and

 (e) the entity meets the requirements of section 30130, unless the entity is endorsed as a deductible gift recipient under paragraph 30120(a).

Relevant special conditions in table in section 3015

 (3) To avoid doubt:

 (a) a condition requiring the fund, authority or institution to meet the requirements of section 3017 is not a relevant condition for the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(iii) or paragraph (2)(c) of this section; and

Note: Section 3017 requires the entity to be endorsed under this Subdivision as a deductible gift recipient.

 (b) in the case of a fund, authority or institution that is described in item 1 of the table in section 3015—a condition set out in the relevant table item in Subdivision 30B, including a condition identified in the column headed “Special conditions—fund, authority or institution” of that item (if any), is a relevant condition for the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(iii) or paragraph (2)(c) of this section.

Note: Paragraph (c) of the column headed “Special conditions” of item 1 of the table in section 3015 requires any conditions set out in the relevant table item in Subdivision 30B to be satisfied.

Transfer of assets from fund, authority or institution

 (6) A law (outside this Subdivision), a document constituting the entity or rules governing the entity’s activities must require the entity, at the first occurrence of an event described in subsection (7), to transfer to a fund, authority or institution gifts to which can be deducted under this Division:

 (a) any surplus assets of the gift fund (see section 30130); or

 (b) if the entity is not required by this section to meet the requirements of section 30130—any surplus:

 (i) gifts of money or property for the principal purpose of the fund, authority or institution; and

 (ii) contributions described in item 7 or 8 of the table in section 3015 in relation to a *fundraising event held for that purpose; and

 (iii) money received by the entity because of such gifts or contributions.

Events requiring transfer

 (7) The events are:

 (a) the winding up of the fund, authority or institution; and

 (b) if the entity is endorsed because of a fund, authority or institution—the revocation of the entity’s endorsement under this Subdivision relating to the fund, authority or institution.

Note 1: There are 2 ways an entity can be endorsed because of a fund, authority or institution. An entity can be endorsed either because it is a fund, authority or institution or because it operates a fund, authority or institution.

Note 2: Section 42655 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 deals with revocation of endorsement.

Note 3: The entity is also required to keep appropriate records: see section 38215 of the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

30130  Maintaining a gift fund

 (1) The entity must maintain for the principal purpose of the fund, authority or institution a fund (the gift fund):

 (a) to which gifts of money or property for that purpose are to be made; and

 (b) to which contributions described in item 7 or 8 of the table in section 3015 in relation to a *fundraising event held for that purpose are to be made; and

 (c) to which any money received by the entity because of such gifts or contributions is to be credited; and

 (d) that does not receive any other money or property.

 (2) The entity must use the gift fund only for the principal purpose of the fund, authority or institution.

Exception—only one gift fund required per entity

 (3) An entity that operates 2 or more funds, authorities or institutions also meets the requirements of this section for 2 or more of those funds, authorities or institutions by maintaining a single gift fund if:

 (a) the gift fund meets the requirements in paragraphs (1)(a), (b) and (c) in respect of each of the funds, authorities or institutions for which the gift fund is maintained; and

 (b) the gift fund does not receive any other money or property.

 (4) The entity must use a gift or contribution made to the fund and any money credited to the fund only for the principal purpose of the fund, authority or institution to which the gift, contribution or money relates.

Note: The entity is also required to keep appropriate records for each of the funds, authorities or institutions: see section 38215 of the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

Government entities treated like entities

30180  How this Subdivision applies to government entities

 (1) The other sections of this Subdivision apply in relation to a *government entity in the same way as they apply in relation to an entity.

 (2) Subparagraph 30125(2)(b)(i) (as applied by this section) operates as if it referred to the *government entity consisting of persons, one or more of whom controlled the fund (instead of referring to the entity legally owning the fund).

Subdivision 30CRules applying to particular gifts of property

Table of sections

Valuation requirements

30200 Getting written valuations

30205 Proceeds of the sale would have been assessable

30210 Approved valuers

30212 Valuations by the Commissioner

Working out the amount you can deduct for a gift of property

30215 How much you can deduct

30220 Reducing the amount you can deduct

Joint ownership of property

30225 Gift of property by joint owners

Valuation requirements

30200  Getting written valuations

 (1) You satisfy the valuation requirements if you get 2 or more written valuations of the gift you made.

Note 1: In most cases, you need to get these written valuations to be able to deduct a gift of property that you make to a recipient covered by item 4, 5 or 6 of the table in section 3015.

Note 2: You do not need to get written valuations in the circumstances set out in section 30205.

 (2) The valuations must be by different individuals, each of whom is an approved valuer of the kind of property you are giving away.

Note: Section 30210 deals with how an individual becomes an approved valuer.

 (3) Each valuation must state the amount that, in the opinion of the valuer, was:

 (a) the *GST inclusive market value of the property on the day you made the gift; or

 (b) the *GST inclusive market value of the property on the day the valuation was made.

 (4) If a valuation states the *GST inclusive market value of the property on the day the valuation was made, it must have been made within 90 days before or after the gift was made. However, the Commissioner may allow a longer period than this.

30205  Proceeds of the sale would have been assessable

 (1) You do not need to get written valuations of the gift you made if:

 (a) no amount is included in your assessable income in respect of the gift you made; but

 (b) an amount would have been included in your assessable income if you had sold the property instead of making the gift.

 (2) However, this section does not apply if, apart from the operation of subsection 11860(2), an amount would have been included in your assessable income in respect of the gift you made.

30210  Approved valuers

 (1) The *Arts Secretary may approve an individual as a valuer of a particular kind of property. The approval must be in writing, signed by the Secretary.

 (2) The Secretary must, in deciding whether to approve an individual, have regard to:

 (a) the individual’s qualifications, experience and knowledge in valuing that kind of property; and

 (b) the individual’s knowledge of the current *GST inclusive market value of that kind of property; and

 (c) the individual’s standing in the professional community.

30212  Valuations by the Commissioner

 (1) If you make a gift or contribution that is covered by a provision of this Division that refers to the value of property as determined by the Commissioner, you must seek the valuation from the Commissioner.

 (2) The Commissioner may charge you the amount worked out in accordance with the regulations for making the valuation.

Working out the amount you can deduct for a gift of property

30215  How much you can deduct

 (1) This section contains the rules for working out how much you can deduct for a gift of property that you make to a recipient covered by item 4, 5 or 6 of the table in section 3015.

 (2) The general rule is that the amount you can deduct for a gift of this kind is the average of the *GST inclusive market values (as reduced under subsection 3015(3) if that subsection applies) specified in the written valuations you got from the approved valuers.

Note: In some situations you must reduce the amount you can deduct: see section 30220.

 (3) The exceptions to the general rule are set out in this table:

 

Amount you can deduct for a gift of property

Item

In this case:

The amount you can deduct is:

1

Section 30205 (which is about the proceeds of the sale being assessable) applies, and you bought the property

the amount you paid for the property, reduced by the amount of any *input tax credit to which you are or were entitled for your *acquisition of the property

2

Section 30205 (which is about the proceeds of the sale being assessable) applies, and you created or produced the property

so much of the cost of creation or production as you would have been able to deduct if you had sold the property, reduced by the amount of any *input tax credit to which you are or were entitled for your *acquisitions to the extent that they were made for the purpose of creating or producing the property

3

Neither of cases 1 and 2 applies, and you acquired the property:

(a) less than one year before making the gift (otherwise than by inheriting it); or

(b) for the purpose of giving it away; or

(c) subject to an *arrangement that the property would be given away

the lesser of the amount you paid for the property and:

(a) if the average of the written valuations you got fairly represents the *GST inclusive market value (as reduced under subsection (4) if that subsection applies) of the property on the day you made the gift—that average; or

(b) if it does not—the *GST inclusive market value (as reduced under subsection (4) if that subsection applies) of the property on the day you made the gift

4

None of cases 1 to 3 applies, and the average of the written valuations you got does not fairly represent the *market value of the property on the day you made the gift

the *GST inclusive market value (as reduced under subsection (4) if that subsection applies) of the property on the day you made the gift

 (4) For the purposes of items 3 and 4 of the table in subsection (3), the *GST inclusive market values of the property in question are reduced by 1/11 if you would have been entitled to an *input tax credit if:

 (a) you had *acquired the property at the time you made the gift; and

 (b) your acquisition had been for a *creditable purpose.

30220  Reducing the amount you can deduct

 (1) The amount you can deduct is reduced by a reasonable amount if:

 (a) the terms and conditions on which the gift is made are such that the recipient:

 (i) does not receive immediate custody and control of the property; or

 (ii) does not have the unconditional right to retain custody and control of the property in perpetuity; or

 (iii) does not obtain an immediate, indefeasible and unencumbered legal and equitable title to the property; or

 (b) the custody, control or use of the property by the recipient is affected by an *arrangement entered into in respect of the making of the gift.

 (2) In deciding what is a reasonable amount, have regard to the effect of those terms and conditions, or that *arrangement, on the *GST inclusive market value of the gift.

Joint ownership of property

30225  Gift of property by joint owners

  If:

 (a) you own property jointly with one or more other entities; and

 (b) you and the other entities make a gift of the property; and

 (c) you would have been able to deduct the gift under section 3015 because of item 4, 5 or 6 of the table in that section if you had made a gift of the property as sole owner of it;

you can deduct so much of the gift as is reasonable, having regard to your interest in the property.

Subdivision 30CAAdministrative requirements relating to ABNs

Guide to Subdivision 30CA

30226  What this Subdivision is about

An entity must ensure certain details must appear on a receipt it issues for a gift that:

 (a) is made to the entity or a fund, authority or institution it operates; and

 (b) is of a kind that the giver can deduct under Subdivision 30A.

If the entity has an ABN, the Australian Business Registrar must state in the Australian Business Register that the entity is a deductible gift recipient.

Table of sections

Requirements

30227 Entities to which this Subdivision applies

30228 Content of receipt for gift

30229 Australian Business Register must show deductibility of gifts to deductible gift recipient

Requirements

30227  Entities to which this Subdivision applies

 (1) This Subdivision sets out requirements relating to a *deductible gift recipient.

 (2) A deductible gift recipient is an entity or *government entity that:

 (a) is a fund, authority or institution described in item 1, 2, 4, 5 or 6 of the table in section 3015 and is:

 (i) endorsed under Subdivision 30BA as a deductible gift recipient; or

 (ii) mentioned by name in that table or in Subdivision 30B; or

 (b) is endorsed as a deductible gift recipient for the operation of a fund, authority or institution described in item 1, 2 or 4 of the table in section 3015.

30228  Content of receipt for gift or contribution

 (1) If a *deductible gift recipient issues a receipt for a gift described in the relevant item of the table in section 3015 to the fund, authority or institution, the deductible gift recipient must ensure that the receipt states:

 (a) the name of the fund, authority or institution; and

 (b) the *ABN (if any) of the deductible gift recipient; and

 (c) the fact that the receipt is for a gift.

Note: If the deductible gift recipient is endorsed as a deductible gift recipient and it contravenes this section, the Commissioner may revoke its endorsement: see section 42655 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.

 (2) If a *deductible gift recipient issues a receipt for a contribution described in item 7 of the table in section 3015, the deductible gift recipient must ensure that the receipt states:

 (a) the name of the deductible gift recipient; and

 (b) the *ABN (if any) of the deductible gift recipient; and

 (c) the fact that the receipt is for a contribution made in return for a right to attend, or participate in, a specified *fundraising event; and

 (d) if the contribution is money—the amount of the contribution; and

 (e) the amount of the *GST inclusive market value, on the day the contribution was made, of the right to attend, or participate in, the fundraising event.

 (3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(e), in working out the *GST inclusive market value of the right in question, disregard anything that would prevent or restrict conversion of the right to money.

 (4) If a *deductible gift recipient issues a receipt for a contribution described in item 8 of the table in section 3015, the deductible gift recipient must ensure that the receipt states:

 (a) the name of the deductible gift recipient; and

 (b) the *ABN (if any) of the deductible gift recipient; and

 (c) the fact that the receipt is for a contribution made by way of consideration for the supply of goods or services; and

 (d) the fact that the contribution was made because the contributor was the successful bidder at an auction that:

 (i) was a specified *fundraising event; or

 (ii) was held at a specified fundraising event; and

 (e) if the contribution is money—the amount of the contribution; and

 (f) the *GST inclusive market value, on the day the contribution was made, of the goods or services.

 (5) For the purposes of paragraph (4)(f), in working out the *GST inclusive market value of the goods or services in question, disregard anything that would prevent or restrict conversion of the goods or services to money.

30229  Australian Business Register must show deductibility of gifts to deductible gift recipient

 (1) If a *deductible gift recipient has an *ABN, the *Australian Business Registrar must enter in the *Australian Business Register in relation to the deductible gift recipient a statement that it is a deductible gift recipient for a specified period.

Note 1: An entry (or lack of entry) of a statement required by this section does not affect whether you can deduct a gift to the fund, authority or institution.

Note 2: This section will apply to all entities and government entities that are endorsed as deductible gift recipients under Subdivision 30BA, because they must have ABNs to be endorsed. It will also apply to other entities described or named in Subdivision 30A if they have ABNs.

 (2) If the *deductible gift recipient is a deductible gift recipient only because it is endorsed under Subdivision 30BA as a deductible gift recipient for the operation of a fund, authority or institution, the statement must name the fund, authority or institution.

 (2A) If:

 (a) the *deductible gift recipient is:

 (i) a fund, authority or institution; or

 (ii) a deductible gift recipient only because it is endorsed under Subdivision 30BA as a deductible gift recipient for the operation of a fund, authority or institution; and

 (b) the fund, authority or institution is covered by item 1, 2 or 4 of the table in section 3015;

the statement must specify that the fund, authority or institution is covered by that item.

 (3) The *Australian Business Registrar may remove the statement from the *Australian Business Register after the end of the period.

 (4) The *Australian Business Registrar must take reasonable steps to ensure that a statement appearing in the *Australian Business Register under this section is true. For this purpose, the Registrar may:

 (a) change the statement; or

 (b) remove the statement from the Register if the statement is not true; or

 (c) remove the statement from the Register and enter another statement in the Register under this section.

Subdivision 30DADonations to political parties and independent candidates and members

Guide to Subdivision 30DA

30241  What this Subdivision is about

Generally, you can deduct certain contributions and gifts to political parties, independent candidates and members.

Contributions and gifts must be at least $2 and there is a limit on the total amount that you can deduct.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

30242 Deduction for political contributions and gifts

30243 Amount of the deduction

30244 When an individual is an independent candidate

30245 When an individual is an independent member

Operative provisions

30242  Deduction for political contributions and gifts

 (1) You can deduct any of the following for the income year in which they are made:

 (a) a contribution or gift to a political party that is registered under Part XI of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 or under corresponding State or Territory legislation;

 (b) a contribution or gift to an individual when the individual is an *independent candidate for a Commonwealth, State, Northern Territory or Australian Capital Territory election;

 (c) a contribution or gift to an individual who is, or was, an *independent member of the Commonwealth Parliament, a State Parliament, the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory.

 (2) The contribution or gift must be of:

 (a) money; or

 (b) property that you purchased during the 12 months before making the contribution or gift.

 (3) The value of the contribution or gift must be at least $2.

 (3A) You can deduct the contribution or gift only if:

 (a) you are an individual; and

 (b) you do not make the gift or contribution in the course of carrying on a *business.

 (4) You cannot deduct a testamentary contribution or gift under this Subdivision.

 (5) A contribution or gift to an individual who is, or was, an *independent member must be made:

 (a) when the individual is an independent member; or

 (b) if the individual ceases to be an independent member because:

 (i) a Parliament, a House of a Parliament or a Legislative Assembly is dissolved or has reached its maximum duration; or

 (ii) the individual comes up for election;

  after the individual ceases to be a member but before candidates for the resulting election are declared or otherwise publicly announced by an entity authorised under the relevant electoral legislation.

30243  Amount of the deduction

 (1) If the contribution or gift is money, the amount of the deduction is the amount of money.

 (2) If the contribution or gift is property, the amount of the deduction is the lesser of:

 (a) the market value of the property on the day that you made the contribution or gift; and

 (b) the amount that you paid for the property.

$1,500 limit on deductions

 (3) You cannot deduct more than $1,500 under this Subdivision for an income year for contributions and gifts to political parties.

 (4) You cannot deduct more than $1,500 under this Subdivision for an income year for contributions and gifts to *independent candidates or *independent members.

30244  When an individual is an independent candidate

 (1) An individual is an independent candidate if:

 (a) the individual is a candidate in an election (including an election that is later declared void) for members of the Commonwealth Parliament, a State Parliament, the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory; and

 (b) the individual’s candidature is not endorsed by a political party that is registered under Part XI of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 or under corresponding State or Territory legislation.

 (2) However, an individual does not start being an *independent candidate until the candidates for the election are declared or otherwise publicly announced by an entity authorised under the relevant electoral legislation.

 (3) An individual stops being an *independent candidate when the result of the election is declared or otherwise publicly announced by an entity authorised under the relevant electoral legislation.

 (4) If:

 (a) the election is taken to have wholly failed under the relevant electoral legislation; and

 (b) the result of the election has not been declared or otherwise publicly announced by an entity authorised under the relevant electoral legislation;

the individual stops being an *independent candidate in that election when candidates for the replacement election are declared or otherwise publicly announced by an entity authorised under the relevant electoral legislation.

30245  When an individual is an independent member

 (1) An individual is an independent member of the Commonwealth Parliament, a State Parliament, the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory if the individual:

 (a) is a member of that Parliament or Legislative Assembly; and

 (b) the individual is not a member of a political party that is registered under Part XI of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 or under corresponding State or Territory legislation.

 (2) An individual who becomes a member as a result of an election (including an election that is later declared void) is taken to start being a member of the Parliament or Legislative Assembly when the individual’s election as a member is declared or otherwise publicly announced by an entity authorised under the relevant electoral legislation.

Subdivision 30DBSpreading certain gift and covenant deductions over up to 5 income years

Guide to Subdivision 30DB

30246  What this Subdivision is about

This Subdivision allows you to elect to spread deductions for certain gifts and covenants over up to 5 income years. There are some different requirements for environmental, heritage and cultural property gifts and conservation covenants.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

30247 Gifts and covenants for which elections can be made

30248 Making an election

30249 Effect of election

30249A Requirements—environmental property gifts

30249B Requirements—heritage property gifts

30249D Requirements—conservation covenants

Operative provisions

30247  Gifts and covenants for which elections can be made

 (1) An election under this Subdivision may be made for a gift, made on or after 1 July 2003, that is:

 (a) a gift of:

 (i) money; or

 (ii) property valued by the Commissioner at more than $5,000;

  made to a fund, authority or institution covered by item 1 or 2 of the table in section 3015; or

 (b) a gift that is covered by item 4, 5 or 6 of the table in section 3015.

 (2) An election under this Subdivision may also be made for entering into a *conservation covenant, under Division 31, on or after 1 July 2003.

30248  Making an election

 (1) If you can deduct an amount:

 (a) under this Division for a gift covered by subsection 30247(1); or

 (b) under Division 31 for entering into a *conservation covenant covered by subsection 30247(2);

you may make a written election to spread that deduction over the current income year and up to 4 of the immediately following income years.

 (2) In the election, you must specify the percentage (if any) of the deduction that you will deduct in each of the income years.

 (3) You must make the election before you lodge your *income tax return for the income year in which you made the gift or entered into the covenant.

 (4) You may vary an election at any time. However, the variation can only change the percentage that you will deduct in respect of income years for which you have not yet lodged an *income tax return.

 (5) Unless section 30249A or 30249B applies, the election and any variation must be in the *approved form.

Note: Sections 30249A and 30249B provide for the form of elections and variations for gifts covered by those sections.

30249  Effect of election

 (1) In each of the income years you specified in the election, you can deduct the amount corresponding to the percentage you specified for that year.

 (2) You cannot deduct the amount that you otherwise would have been able to deduct for the gift in the income year in which you made the gift or entered into the covenant.

30249A  Requirements—environmental property gifts

 (1) This section applies if you make an election for a gift of property made to a fund, authority or institution covered by section 3055.

 (2) You must give a copy of the election to the *Environment Secretary before you lodge your *income tax return for the income year in which you made the gift.

 (3) If you vary the election, you must give a copy of the variation to the *Environment Secretary before you lodge your *income tax return for the first income year to which the variation applies.

 (4) The election and any variation must be in a form approved in writing by the *Environment Secretary.

30249B  Requirements—heritage property gifts

 (1) This section applies if you make an election for a gift of property made to a fund, authority or institution covered by item 6 of the table in section 3015.

 (2) You must give a copy of the election to the *Heritage Secretary before you lodge your *income tax return for the income year in which you made the gift.

 (3) If you vary the election, you must give a copy of the variation to the *Heritage Secretary before you lodge your *income tax return for the first income year to which the variation applies.

 (4) The election and any variation must be in a form approved in writing by the *Heritage Secretary.

30249D  Requirements—conservation covenants

 (1) This section applies if you make an election for a *conservation covenant.

 (2) You must give a copy of the election to the *Environment Secretary before you lodge your *income tax return for the income year in which you entered the covenant.

 (3) If you vary the election, you must give a copy of the variation to the *Environment Secretary before you lodge your *income tax return for the first income year to which the variation applies.

Subdivision 30ERegister of environmental organisations

Guide to Subdivision 30E

30250  What this Subdivision is about

This Subdivision requires the establishment of a register of environmental organisations. Section 3015 allows you to deduct a gift that you make to a fund that is on the register.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

30255 Establishing the register

30260 Meaning of environmental organisation

30265 Its principal purpose must be protecting the environment

30270 Other requirements it must satisfy

30275 Further requirement for a body corporate or a cooperative society

30280 What must be on the register

30285 Removal from the register

Operative provisions

30255  Establishing the register

  The *Environment Secretary must keep a register of *environmental organisations.

Note: Section 30280 sets out what details must be entered on the register.

30260  Meaning of environmental organisation

  An environmental organisation is:

 (a) a body corporate; or

 (b) a cooperative society; or

 (c) a trust; or

 (d) an unincorporated body established for a public purpose by the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;

that satisfies each requirement in sections 30265 and 30270.

Note: A body corporate or a cooperative society must satisfy a further requirement: see section 30275.

30265  Its principal purpose must be protecting the environment

 (1) Its principal purpose must be:

 (a) the protection and enhancement of the natural environment or of a significant aspect of the natural environment; or

 (b) the provision of information or education, or the carrying on of research, about the natural environment or a significant aspect of the natural environment.

 (2) It must maintain a public fund that meets the requirements of section 30130, or would meet those requirements if the *environmental organisation were a fund, authority or institution.

 (4) It must have agreed to comply with any rules that the Minister and the *Environment Minister make to ensure that gifts made to the fund are used only for its principal purpose.

30270  Other requirements it must satisfy

No payment of profits to its members

 (1) It must not pay any of its profits or financial surplus, or give any of its property, to its members, beneficiaries, controllers or owners (as appropriate).

No acting as a conduit

 (2) It must have a policy of not acting as a mere conduit for the donation of money or property to other organisations, bodies or persons.

Surplus assets to be transferred on winding up

 (3) It must have rules providing that, if the public fund is wound up, any surplus assets of the fund are to be transferred to another fund that is on the register.

Statistical information to be provided

 (4) It must have agreed to give the *Environment Secretary, within a reasonable period after the end of each income year, statistical information about gifts made to the public fund during that income year.

30275  Further requirement for a body corporate or a cooperative society

  A body corporate (except a statutory authority) or a cooperative society is an environmental organisation only if:

 (a) its membership consists principally of bodies corporate; or

 (b) it has at least 50 members who are individuals that are:

 (i) regarded as financial members; and

 (ii) entitled to vote at a general meeting of it; or

 (c) the *Environment Minister has determined that, because of special circumstances, it does not have to meet either of the requirements in paragraph (a) or (b).

30280  What must be on the register

 (1) The *Environment Secretary must enter on the register each *environmental organisation, and the public fund it maintains, that he or she has been directed to enter by the Minister and the *Environment Minister.

 (2) The Minister and the *Environment Minister may so direct the Secretary only if the Environment Minister has notified the Minister that he or she is satisfied that an organisation is an *environmental organisation. The notification must be in writing.

 (3) The direction must be in writing and must specify the day on which the organisation and public fund are to be entered on the register. The day must be the day on which the direction is given or a later day.

 (4) The Minister and the *Environment Minister must have regard to the policies and budgetary priorities of the Commonwealth Government in deciding whether to give a direction.

30285  Removal from the register

 (1) The Minister and the *Environment Minister may direct the *Environment Secretary to remove an *environmental organisation, and the public fund it maintains, from the register.

 (2) The direction must be in writing and must specify the day on which the organisation and public fund are to be removed from the register. The day must be the day on which the direction is given or a later day.

Subdivision 30EARegister of harm prevention charities

Guide to Subdivision 30EA

30286  What this Subdivision is about

This Subdivision requires the establishment of a register of harm prevention charities. Section 3015 allows you to deduct a gift that you make to a fund that is on the register.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

30287 Establishing the register

30288 Meaning of harm prevention charity

30289 Principal activity—promoting the prevention or control of harm or abuse

30289A Other requirements

30289B What must be on the register

30289C Removal from the register

Operative provisions

30287  Establishing the register

  The *Families Secretary must keep a register of *harm prevention charities.

Note: Section 30289B sets out what details must be entered on the register.

30288  Meaning of harm prevention charity

  A harm prevention charity is an institution that:

 (a) satisfies each requirement in sections 30289 and 30289A; and

 (aa) is a *registered charity; and

 (b) is endorsed as exempt from income tax under Subdivision 50B.

30289  Principal activity—promoting the prevention or control of harm or abuse

 (1) The principal activity of the institution must be the promotion of the prevention or the control of *behaviour that is harmful or abusive to human beings.

 (2) It must maintain a public fund that meets the requirements of section 30130.

 (4) It must have agreed to comply with any rules that the Minister and the *Families Minister make to ensure that gifts made to the fund are used only for its principal activity.

30289A  Other requirements

No acting as a conduit

 (1) The institution must have a policy of not acting as a mere conduit for the donation of money or property to other organisations, bodies or persons.

Surplus assets to be transferred on winding up

 (2) It must have rules providing that, if the public fund is wound up, any surplus assets of the fund are to be transferred to another fund that is on the register.

Statistical information to be provided

 (3) It must have agreed to give the *Families Secretary, within a reasonable period after the end of each income year, statistical information about gifts made to the public fund during that income year.

30289B  What must be on the register

 (1) The *Families Secretary must enter on the register each *harm prevention charity, and the public fund it maintains, that he or she has been directed to enter by the Minister and the *Families Minister.

 (2) The Minister and the *Families Minister may so direct the Secretary only if the Families Minister has notified the Minister that he or she is satisfied that an institution is a *harm prevention charity. The notification must be in writing.

 (3) The direction must be in writing and must specify the day on which the charity and public fund are to be entered on the register. The day must be the day on which the direction is given or a later day.

 (4) The Minister and the *Families Minister must have regard to the policies and budgetary priorities of the Commonwealth Government in deciding whether to give a direction.

30289C  Removal from the register

 (1) The Minister and the *Families Minister may direct the *Families Secretary to remove a *harm prevention charity, and the public fund it maintains, from the register.

 (2) The direction must be in writing and must specify the day on which the charity and public fund are to be removed from the register. The day must be the day on which the direction is given or a later day.

Subdivision 30FRegister of cultural organisations

Guide to Subdivision 30F

30290  What this Subdivision is about

This Subdivision requires the establishment of a register of cultural organisations. Section 3015 allows you to deduct a gift that you make to a fund that is on the register.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

30295 Establishing the register

30300 Meaning of cultural organisation

30305 What must be on the register

30310 Removal from the register

Operative provisions

30295  Establishing the register

  The *Arts Secretary must keep a register of *cultural organisations.

Note: Section 30305 sets out what details must be entered on the register.

30300  Meaning of cultural organisation

 (1) A cultural organisation is:

 (a) a body corporate; or

 (b) a trust; or

 (c) an unincorporated body established for a public purpose by the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory;

that satisfies each requirement in this section.

 (2) Its principal purpose must be the promotion of literature, music, a performing art, a visual art, a craft, design, film, video, television, radio, community arts, arts or languages of *Indigenous persons or movable cultural heritage.

 (3) It must maintain a public fund that meets the requirements of section 30130, or would meet those requirements if the *cultural organisation were a fund, authority or institution.

 (5) It must not pay any of its profits or financial surplus, or give any of its property, to its members, beneficiaries, controllers or owners (as appropriate).

 (6) It must have agreed to comply with any rules that the Minister and the *Arts Minister make to ensure that gifts made to the fund are used only for its principal purpose.

 (7) It must have agreed to give the *Arts Secretary, at intervals of 6 months, statistical information about gifts made to the public fund during the last 6 months.

30305  What must be on the register

 (1) The *Arts Secretary must enter on the register each *cultural organisation, and the public fund it maintains, that he or she has been directed to enter by the Minister and the *Arts Minister.

 (2) The Minister and the *Arts Minister may so direct the Secretary only if the Arts Minister has notified the Minister that he or she is satisfied that an organisation is a *cultural organisation. The notification must be in writing.

 (3) The direction must be in writing and must specify the day on which the organisation and public fund are to be entered on the register. The day must be the day on which the direction is given or a later day.

 (4) The Minister and the *Arts Minister must have regard to the policies and budgetary priorities of the Commonwealth Government in deciding whether to give a direction.

30310  Removal from the register

 (1) The Minister and the *Arts Minister may direct the *Arts Secretary to remove a *cultural organisation, and the public fund it maintains, from the register.

 (2) The direction must be in writing and must specify the day on which the organisation and public fund are to be removed from the register. The day must be the day on which the direction is given or a later day.

Subdivision 30GIndex to this Division

Table of sections

30315 Index

30320 Effect of this Subdivision

30315  Index

 (1) The table in this section gives you an index to this Division.

 (2) It tells you:

 each topic covered by this Division; and

 where in this Division you can find the detail about each topic.

Note: In the last column there are many references in this form: item 2.2.1. These refer to items in the tables in Subdivision 30B.

 

Index

Topic

Provision

1A

2009 Victorian Bushfire Appeal Trust Account

item 4.2.41

1AAA

2017 Bourke Street Fund Trust Account

item 4.2.43

1AA

Aboriginal Education Council (N.S.W.) Incorporated

item 2.2.26

1

Academies professional

section 3025

2

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Incorporated

item 2.2.1

2AAA

ACT Playgroups Association Incorporated

item 8.2.9

2AAB

ACT Region Crime Stoppers Limited

item 4.2.31A

2AAC

AE1 Inc

item 9.2.9

2ACA

AE 2 Commemorative Foundation Ltd

item 5.2.29

2AD

American Australian Association Limited

item 9.2.18

3

Amnesty International Australia

item 4.2.1

3A

Amy Gillett Foundation

item 10.2.8

4

Ancillary funds

item 2 of the table in section 3015

4A

Animal welfare

item 4.1.6

5

Anzac Centenary Public Fund

item 5.2.31

6

Approved research institutes

item 3.1.1

7

Armed forces, auxiliaries

item 5.1.2

8

Artbank

item 5 of the table in section 3015

9

Art galleries

items 12.1.4 and 12.1.5; item 4 of the table in section 3015

9AA

Asia Society AustralAsia Centre

item 9.2.7

9AAA

Aurora Education Foundation Limited

item 2.2.5

9AB

Australasian College for Emergency Medicine

item 1.2.18

9AC

Australasian College of Dermatologists

item 1.2.20

9A

Australia for UNHCR

item 9.2.10

9B

Australia Foundation in support of Human Rights Watch Limited

item 9.2.11

9C

Australian Academy of Law

item 2.2.49

10

Australian Academy of Science

item 2.2.2

11

Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Limited

item 2.2.4

12

Australian Academy of the Humanities for the Advancement of Scholarship in Language, Literature, History, Philosophy and the Fine Arts

item 2.2.3

13A

Australian American Education Leadership Foundation Limited

item 9.2.4

14

Australiana Fund

item 12.2.1; item 4 of the table in section 3015

15

Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

item 2.2.6

16

Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists

item 1.2.13

17

Australian Antarctic Territory, payment to Commonwealth for research

item 3.2.3

17AAA

Australian Breastfeeding Association

item 8.2.3

17AA

Australian Business Arts Foundation Ltd.

item 12.2.2

17A

Australian Business Register

section 30229

17B

Australian Business Week Limited

item 7.2.5

20

Australian Conservation Foundation Incorporated

item 6.2.1

20A

Australian Council of Christians and Jews

item 2.2.17

21

Australian Council of Social Service Incorporated

item 4.2.15

21A

Australian Human Rights Education Fund

item 2.2.25

22

Australian Institute of International Affairs

item 9.2.1

23

Australian Ireland Fund Limited

item 11.2.12

24

Australian Neighbourhood Houses & Centres Association (ANHCA) Inc.

item 4.2.8

24A

Australian Nuffield Farming Scholars Association

item 2.2.20

24B

Australian Peacekeeping Memorial Project Incorporated

item 5.2.32

24C

Australian Philanthropic Services Limited

item 11.2.10

25A

Australian Primary Principals Association Education Foundation

item 2.2.22

25B

Australian Schools Plus Ltd

item 2.2.43

26

Australian Science Innovations Incorporated

item 2.2.44

27

Australian Sports Foundation

item 10.2.1

27AAAA

Australian Sports Foundation Charitable Fund

item 10.2.9

27AAA

Australian Volunteers Support Trust

item 4.2.45

27AAB

Australian Women Donors Network

item 11.2.11

27AA

Bathurst War Memorial Carillon Public Fund Trust

item 5.2.28

28AA

Bradman Memorial Fund

item 10.2.7

28ABA

Bunbury Diocese Cathedral Rebuilding Fund

13.2.14A

28AC

Cambridge Australia Scholarships Limited

item 9.2.27

29

Cancer Australia

item 1.2.19

29A

Centre For Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation Limited

item 3.2.15

30

Centre for Independent Studies

item 3.2.1

30AA

C E W Bean Foundation

items 5.2.26 and 12.2.6

30A

Charlie Perkins Scholarship Trust

item 2.2.39

30B

Chifley Research Centre Limited

item 3.2.8

31

Child Accident Prevention Foundation of Australia

item 4.2.2

31B

Clontarf Foundation

item 2.2.32

33

College buildings

item 2.1.10

34

College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand

item 1.2.21

34AA

Commonwealth Study Conferences (Australia) Incorporated

item 2.2.23

34AB

Community sheds

section 3020

34A

Community Rebuilding Trust

item 4.2.46

35

Conditional gifts

section 30220

36

Connellan Airways Trust

item 11.2.1

37

Conservation bodies

section 3055

38

Conversation Trust

item 2.2.42

39

Council for Christian Education in Schools

item 2.2.10

39A

Council for Jewish Community Security

item 13.2.1

40

Council for Jewish Education in Schools

item 2.2.11

40A

Country Education Foundation of Australia Limited

item 2.2.31

40B

Crime Stoppers South Australia Limited

item 4.2.27

40C

Crime Stoppers Northern Territory Program

item 4.2.31

42

Cultural organisations

section 30100

43

Cultural organisations, register of

Subdivision 30F

44

Defence organisations

section 3050

44AAAA

Diamond Jubilee Trust Australia

item 9.2.2

44AAA

Diplomacy Training Program Limited

item 9.2.21

44AA

Disaster relief—public fund for relief of people in Australia

item 4.1.5

44AB

Disaster relief—public fund for relief of people in developing countries

item 9.1.1

44AC

Disaster relief—public fund for relief of people in developed countries

item 9.1.2

44A

Diseases—charitable institutions whose principal activity is to promote the prevention or the control of diseases in human beings

items 1.1.6 and 4.1.7

45

Diseases—institutions researching causes, prevention or cure

items 1.1.4 and 1.1.5

45AAA

Don Chipp Foundation Ltd

item 3.2.9

45A

Dymocks Children’s Charities Limited

item 2.2.21

45B

East African Fund Limited

item 9.2.15

46

Education—education bodies

section 3025

46AA

Education—public fund for scholarships, bursaries and prizes

item 2.1.13

46A

Endorsement as a deductible gift recipient

Subdivision 30BA

47

Environmental organisations

section 3055

48

Environmental organisations, register of

Subdivision 30E

48AAA

Ethics Centre Limited

item 3.2.14

48AA

Ethics education

section 3025

48A

Family and child mediation and counselling

item 8.1.1

49

Family organisations

section 3070

49B

Fire and emergency services

section 30102

49C

Foundation 1901 Limited

item 13.2.23

49D

Foundation Broken Hill Limited

item 11.2.13

50

Foundation for Development Cooperation Ltd

item 9.2.3

50B

Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal Public Fund

item 13.2.2

50C

Foundation for Young Australians

item 11.2.8

50D

Friends of Myall Creek Memorial Incorporated

item 13.2.25

51

Friends of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Australia Incorporated

item 11.2.2

51AA

Fundraising events—contributions

items 7 and 8 of the table in section 3015

51A

General Sir John Monash Foundation

item 2.2.27

52

Global Foundation

item 9.2.8

52AA

Governor Phillip International Scholarship Trust

item 2.2.47

52A

Grattan Institute

item 3.2.11

53

Greening Australia Limited

item 6.2.2

53AA

Green Institute Limited

item 3.2.12

53A

Girl Guides Australia

items 10.2.2 and 10.2.3

53B

Harm prevention charities

items 4.1.4 and 4.1.7

53C

Headstone Project (Tas) Inc.

item 5.2.35

54

Health organisations

section 3020

56

Heritage properties

item 6 of the table in section 3015

56A

High Resolves

item 2.2.48

57

Higher education institutions

item 2.1.3

58

Hospitals

items 1.1.1, 1.1.2 and 1.1.3

60

Ian Clunies Ross Memorial Foundation

item 3.2.2

62

Industry, trade and design

section 3065

63

International affairs

section 3080

63AA

International Jewish Relief Limited

item 9.2.26

63A

International Social Service Australian Branch

item 4.2.28

63B

International Specialised Skills Institute Incorporated

item 2.2.33

64

Joint ownership of property

section 30225

64A

Kidsafe

items 4.2.32 to 4.2.39 (inclusive)

65

Landcare Australia Limited

item 6.2.3

65AA

Layne Beachley Aim for the Stars Foundation Limited

item 13.2.4

65A

Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation Limited

item 13.2.3A

66

Libraries

items 12.1.2 and 12.1.5; item 4 of the table in section 3015

67

Life Education Centre

items 2.2.8 and 2.2.9

67A

Lingiari Policy Centre

item 3.2.10

68

Lionel Murphy Foundation

item 2.2.13

68AA

Lord Somers Camp and Power House

item 13.2.7

68AB

Lowy Institute for International Policy

item 9.2.12

68B

Make a Mark Australia Incorporated

item 9.2.14

69

Marcus Oldham Farm Management College

item 2.2.14

70

Marriage education organisations

item 8.1.1

70AA

Mary MacKillop Canonisation Gift Fund

item 13.2.18

70A

Mawson’s Huts Foundation Limited

item 6.2.23

71

Medical colleges

section 3020

72

Medical research

section 3020

72AAA

Melbourne Korean War Memorial Committee Incorporated

item 5.2.34

72AA

Memorials Development Committee Ltd

item 5.2.30

72A

Menzies Research Centre Public Fund

item 3.2.4

72B

Minderoo Foundation Trust

item 13.2.21

72BA

Motherless Daughters Australia Limited

item 4.2.47

72C

Mt Eliza Graduate School of Business and Government Limited

item 2.2.24

73

Museums

items 12.1.3 and 12.1.5; item 4 of the table in section 3015

73AAAA

National Apology Foundation Ltd

item 13.2.22

73AAA

National Arboretum Canberra Fund

item 12.2.4

73AA

National Boer War Memorial Association Incorporated

item 5.2.33

73B

National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples Limited

item 4.2.42

74

National Foundation for Australian Women Limited

item 4.2.3

75

National Parks associations

section 3055

76

National Safety Council of Australia Limited

item 4.2.4

77

National Trust bodies

section 3055; item 6 of the table in section 3015

77A

Nature Foundation SA Incorporated

item 6.2.9

78

Nature organisations

section 3055

79

Necessitous circumstances funds for relief of

item 4.1.3

80

New South Wales College of Nursing

item 1.2.5

81A

One Laptop per Child Australia Ltd

item 2.2.38

82

Overseas relief funds

item 9.1.1

82A

Page Research Centre Limited

item 3.2.7

83

Paul Ramsay Foundation Limited

item 13.2.24

84

People in need, fund for

item 4.1.3

85

Philanthropic trusts

section 3095

85A

Philanthropy Australia Inc.

item 13.2.19

86

Playford Memorial Trust

item 11.2.4

86A

Playgroup Association Northern Territory Incorporated

item 8.2.8

86AA

Playgroup Australia Limited

item 8.2.12

86B

Playgroup NSW (Inc)

item 8.2.4

86C

Playgroup Queensland Ltd

item 8.2.6

86CA

Playgroup SA Inc

item 8.2.11

86D

Playgroup Tasmania Inc

item 8.2.7

86DA

Playgroup Victoria Inc.

item 8.2.10

86E

Playgroup WA (Inc)

item 8.2.5

87

Political parties and independent candidates and members

Subdivision 30DA

88

Polly Farmer Foundation (Inc)

item 2.2.16

89

Prevention of cruelty to animals

section 3045

89A

Prince’s Trust Australia Limited

item 13.2.20

90

Productivity

section 3065

92

Property, rules for valuing gifts

section 3015 and Subdivision 30C

92A

Public ambulance services

items 1.1.7 and 1.1.8

93

Public benevolent institutions

items 4.1.1, 4.1.2 and 4.1.7

94

PWR Melbourne 2009 Limited

item 13.2.17

94AA

Q Foundation Trust

item 2.2.46

94AB

Ranfurly Library Service Incorporated

item 12.2.3

94A

Receipts for gifts

Subdivision 30CA

94B

Reconciliation Australia Limited

item 4.2.19

95

Religious instruction/education

section 3025

95A

Research Australia Limited

item 3.2.6

96

Research institutions

items 1.1.4 and 1.1.5

97

Residential education institutions

section 3025

97AAA

Rhodes Trust in Australia

item 9.2.25

97AA

Roberta Sykes Indigenous Education Foundation

item 2.2.40

97A

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

item 1.2.1

97B

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists

item 1.2.22

98

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

item 1.2.6

98A

Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists

item 1.2.4

99

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners

item 1.2.7

100

Royal Australasian College of Physicians

item 1.2.8

101

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

item 1.2.9

102

Royal College of Nursing, Australia

item 1.2.12

103

Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia

item 1.2.10

103A

Royal Institution of Australia Incorporated

item 2.2.37

104

Royal Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

section 3045

104B

RSL Foundation

item 5.2.11

105

Rural school hostel buildings

item 2.1.11

106

Samuel Griffith Society Inc.

item 3.2.16

107

School building funds

item 2.1.10

108

Schools

section 3025

109

Scouts

items 10.2.4 and 10.2.5

110

Sichuan Earthquake Surviving Children’s Education Fund

item 9.2.22

110A

Sir Earl Page Memorial Trust

item 3.2.5

111

Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Trust Foundation Limited

item 11.2.5

111AA

Sir William Tyree Foundation

item 2.2.18

111AB

Smile Like Drake Foundation Limited

item 2.2.45

111AC

Social Traders Ltd

item 13.2.5

111A

Social Ventures Australia Limited

item 13.2.16

111B

SouthCare Helicopter Fund

item 1.2.14

111C

Spirit of Australia Foundation

item 2.2.36

112

Sports and recreation

section 3090

112AA

Spreading deductions over income years

Subdivision 30DB

112AF

St George’s Cathedral Restoration Fund

item 13.2.8

112AG

Superannuation Consumers’ Centre Ltd

item 2.2.50

112B

Sydney Chevra Kadisha

item 12.2.5

112C

Sydney Talmudical College Association Refugees Overseas Aid Fund

item 9.2.5

113

Tasmanian Conservation Trust Incorporated

item 6.2.11

114

Taxation incentives for the Arts scheme

items 4 and 5 of the table in section 3015

114A

Teach for Australia

item 2.2.41

115

Technical and further education institution

item 2.1.7

116

Tertiary education/TAFE

section 3025

116AA

Toy Libraries Australia Inc.

item 13.2.26

116A

Trust for Nature (Victoria)

item 6.2.6

117

Trusts—ancillary

item 2 of the table in section 3015

118

Trusts—philanthropic

section 3095

118A

United Israel Appeal Refugee Relief Fund Limited

item 9.2.6

118B

United States Studies Centre

item 3.2.13

118C

United Way Australia

item 4.2.5

119

Universities – general

section 3025

120

Universities – research

section 3040

120A

Valuations by Commissioner

section 30212

121

Valuers

section 30210

121A

Victorian Crime Stoppers Program

item 4.2.29

121B

Victorian Pride Centre Ltd

item 4.2.44

122

Visy Cares

item 11.2.9

123

War Memorials

section 3050

124

Welfare and rights

section 3045

124A

WHEELCHAIRS FOR KIDS Incorporated

item 9.2.19

125

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

item 11.2.7

126

WorldSkills Australia

item 7.2.3

127

World Wide Fund for Nature Australia

item 6.2.22

127A

Xanana Vocational Education Trust

item 9.2.17

127B

Yachad Accelerated Learning Project Limited

item 2.2.34

128

Young Endeavour Youth Scheme Public Fund

item 13.2.3

30320  Effect of this Subdivision

  This Subdivision is a *Guide.

Note: In interpreting an operative provision, a Guide may be considered only for limited purposes: see section 950150.

Division 31Conservation covenants

Guide to Division 31

311  What this Division is about

You can deduct an amount if you enter into a conservation covenant over land that you own and you satisfy certain conditions.

The amount you can deduct is the difference between the market value of the land just before and after you enter into the covenant.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

315 Deduction for entering into conservation covenant

3110 Requirements for fund, authority or institution

3115 Valuations by the Commissioner

Operative provisions

315  Deduction for entering into conservation covenant

 (1) You can deduct an amount if:

 (a) you enter into a *conservation covenant over land you own; and

 (b) the conditions set out in subsection (2) are met.

 (2) These conditions must be satisfied:

 (a) the covenant must be perpetual;

 (b) you must not receive any money, property or other material benefit for entering into the covenant;

 (c) the *market value of the land must decrease as a result of your entering into the covenant;

 (d) one or both of these must apply:

 (i) the change in the market value of the land as a result of entering into the covenant must be more than $5,000;

 (ii) you must have entered into a contract to acquire the land not more than 12 months before you entered into the covenant;

 (e) the covenant must have been entered into with:

 (i) a fund, authority or institution that meets the requirements of section 3110; or

 (ii) the Commonwealth, a State, a Territory or a *local governing body; or

 (iii) an authority of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory.

Note: You must seek a valuation of the change in market value from the Commissioner: see section 3115.

 (3) The amount you can deduct is the difference between the *market value of the land just before you entered the covenant and its decreased market value just after that time, but only to the extent that the decrease is attributable to your entering into the covenant.

Note: You can spread the deduction over a 5 year period: see Subdivision 30DB.

 (4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a), a covenant is treated as being perpetual even if a Minister of a State or Territory has a power to rescind it.

 (5) A conservation covenant over land is a covenant that:

 (a) restricts or prohibits certain activities on the land that could degrade the environmental value of the land; and

 (b) is permanent and registered on the title to the land (if registration is possible); and

 (c) is approved in writing by, or is entered into under a program approved in writing by, the *Environment Minister.

3110  Requirements for fund, authority or institution

 (1) The fund, authority or institution:

 (a) must be covered by an item in any of the tables in Subdivision 30B and must meet any conditions set out in the relevant table item; or

 (b) must be an *ancillary fund established under a will or instrument of trust solely for:

 (i) the purpose of providing money, property or benefits to a fund, authority or institution mentioned in paragraph (a) and for any purposes set out in the item of the table in Subdivision 30B that covers the fund, authority or institution; or

 (ii) the establishment of such a fund, authority or institution.

 (2) If the fund, authority or institution is not listed specifically in Subdivision 30B, it must also:

 (a) be in Australia; and

 (b) meet the requirements of section 3017 (about the endorsement of deductible gift recipients).

3115  Valuations by the Commissioner

 (1) You must seek a valuation of the change in the *market value of the land from the Commissioner for the purposes of this Division.

 (2) The Commissioner may charge you the amount worked out in accordance with the regulations for making the valuation.

Division 32Entertainment expenses

Table of Subdivisions

 Guide to Division 32

32A No deduction for entertainment expenses

32B Exceptions

32C Definitions relevant to the exceptions

32D Inhouse dining facilities (employer expenses table item 1.2)

32E Antiavoidance

32F Special rules for companies and partnerships

Guide to Division 32

321  What this Division is about

You cannot deduct costs of providing entertainment. Nor can you deduct amounts for property that you use for providing entertainment. But there are exceptions.

Subdivision 32ANo deduction for entertainment expenses

Table of sections

325 No deduction for entertainment expenses

3210 Meaning of entertainment

3215 No deduction for property used for providing entertainment

325  No deduction for entertainment expenses

  To the extent that you incur a loss or outgoing in respect of providing *entertainment, you cannot deduct it under section 81. However, there are exceptions, which are set out in Subdivision 32B.

Note 1: Under section 81 you can deduct a loss or outgoing that you incur for the purpose of producing assessable income.

Note 2: If you have used your property in providing entertainment, you may not be able to deduct an amount for the property: see section 3215.

Note 3: Section 3275 deals with arrangements to avoid the operation of this section.

3210  Meaning of entertainment

 (1) Entertainment means:

 (a) entertainment by way of food, drink or *recreation; or

 (b) accommodation or travel to do with providing entertainment by way of food, drink or *recreation.

 (2) You are taken to provide entertainment even if business discussions or transactions occur.

Note: These are some examples of what is entertainment:

 These are some examples of what is not entertainment:

3215  No deduction for property used for providing entertainment

  To the extent that you use property in providing *entertainment, your use of the property is taken not to be for the *purpose of producing assessable income if section 325 would stop you deducting a loss or outgoing if you incurred it in the income year in providing the entertainment.

Note: Under some provisions of this Act, in order to deduct an amount for your property, you must have used the property for the purpose of producing assessable income.

Subdivision 32BExceptions

Table of sections

3220 The main exception—fringe benefits

3225 The tables set out the other exceptions

3230 Employer expenses

3235 Seminar expenses

3240 Entertainment industry expenses

3245 Promotion and advertising expenses

3250 Other expenses

3220  The main exception—fringe benefits

  Section 325 does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing to the extent that you incur it in respect of providing *entertainment by way of *providing a *fringe benefit.

  But this exception does not apply to the extent that the taxable value of the *fringe benefit is reduced under section 63A of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986.

Note 1: You may be able to deduct losses or outgoings that are fringe benefits under section 51AEA, 51AEB or 51AEC of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936. If you do, then you cannot deduct them under section 81 (about general deductions) and so this section is not relevant.

Note 2: There are other exceptions for a loss or outgoing you incur in providing a benefit that would be a fringe benefit if it were not an exempt benefit: see items 1.6 and 1.7 of the table in section 3230.

3225  The tables set out the other exceptions

  Section 325 does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing to the extent that you incur it in respect of providing *entertainment as described in column 2 of an item of a table in this Subdivision.

  However, if column 3 of that item applies, the exception in column 2 of that item does not.

3230  Employer expenses

 

Employer expenses

Item

Section 325 does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing for ...

But the exception does not apply if ...

1.1

providing food or drink to your employees in an *inhouse dining facility.

the food or drink is provided at a party, reception or other social function.

1.2

providing food or drink to individuals (other than your employees) in an *inhouse dining facility.

(a) you choose (under section 3270) not to include in your assessable income $30 for each meal you provide in the *inhouse dining facility in the income year to an individual (other than your employee); or

(b) the food or drink is provided at a party, reception or other social function.

1.3

providing food or drink in a *dining facility to your employees who perform most of their duties in connection with:

(a) the dining facility; or

(b) a facility (of which the dining facility forms a part) for providing accommodation, *recreation or travel.

the food or drink is provided at a party, reception or other social function.

1.4

providing food or drink to your employee under an *industrial instrument relating to overtime.

 

1.5

providing a facility for *recreation on property you occupy, if the facility is mainly operated for your employees to use.

the facility is for:

(a) accommodation; or

(b) dining or drinking (unless it is a food or drink vending machine).

1.6

providing food or drink which would be a *fringe benefit apart from sections 54, 58, 58N, 58S and 58T of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 (disregarding section 58P of that Act).

 

1.7

providing a meal which would be a *fringe benefit apart from sections 58A, 58F, 58L, 58LA and 58M of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 (disregarding section 58P of that Act).

 

1.8

giving your employee an allowance that is included in his or her assessable income.

(a) the employee is a *relative of another employee of yours; and

(b) you give the allowance to the relative, as your employee, because:

(i) he or she provides, or facilitates providing, *entertainment to do with the other employee’s employment; and

(ii) you expect the relative to do so.

Note 1: In the case of a company, items 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5 and 1.8 cover directors of the company as if they were employees: see section 3280.

Note 2: In the case of a company, items 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 and 1.5 cover directors, employees and property of another company that is a member of the same whollyowned group: see section 3285.

Note 3: Item 1.8 has a special operation for partnerships: see section 3290.

3235  Seminar expenses

 

Seminar expenses

Item

Section 325 does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing for ...

But the exception does not apply if ...

2.1

providing food, drink, accommodation or travel to an individual (including yourself) that is reasonably incidental to the individual attending a *seminar that *goes for at least 4 hours.

(a) the seminar is a *business meeting; or

(b) the *seminar’s main purpose is to promote or advertise a *business (or prospective *business) or its goods or services; or

(c) the *seminar’s main purpose is to provide *entertainment at, or in connection with, the seminar.

3240  Entertainment industry expenses

 

Entertainment industry expenses

Item

Section 325 does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing for ...

But the exception does not apply if ...

3.1

providing *entertainment for payment in the ordinary course of a *business that you carry on.

 

3.2

providing *entertainment in performing your duties to your employer who carries on a *business that includes providing that entertainment for payment.

 

3245  Promotion and advertising expenses

 

Promotion and advertising expenses

Item

Section 325 does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing for ...

But the exception does not apply if ...

4.1

providing *entertainment if:

(a) you provide it to an individual under a contract to supply him or her with goods or services in the ordinary course of your *business; and

(b) you incur the loss or outgoing to promote or advertise to the public your business or its goods or services.

 

4.2

providing or exhibiting your *business’s goods or services if you incur the loss or outgoing to promote or advertise those goods or services to the public.

 

4.3

providing *entertainment to promote or advertise to the public a *business or its goods or services.

some people have a greater opportunity to get the benefits of the entertainment than ordinary members of the public have.

3250  Other expenses

 

Other expenses

Item

Section 325 does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing for ...

But the exception does not apply if ...

5.1

buying food or drink to do with overtime that you work, if you receive an allowance under an *industrial instrument to buy the food or drink.

 

5.2

providing *entertainment free to members of the public who are sick, disabled, poor or otherwise disadvantaged.

 

Subdivision 32CDefinitions relevant to the exceptions

Table of sections

3255 Inhouse dining facility (employer expenses table items 1.1 and 1.2)

3260 Dining facility (employer expenses table item 1.3)

3265 Seminars (seminar expenses table item 2.1)

3255  Inhouse dining facility (employer expenses table items 1.1 and 1.2)

  An inhouse dining facility is a canteen, dining room or similar facility that:

 (a) is on property you occupy; and

 (b) is operated mainly for providing food and drink to your employees; and

 (c) is not open to the public.

Note 1: In the case of a company, this definition also covers directors of the company as if they were employees: see section 3280.

Note 2: In the case of a company, this definition also covers directors, employees and property of another company that is a member of the same whollyowned group: see section 3285.

3260  Dining facility (employer expenses table item 1.3)

  A dining facility is:

 (a) a canteen, dining room or similar facility; or

 (b) a cafe, restaurant or similar facility;

that is on property you occupy.

Note: In the case of a company, this definition also covers property of another company that is a member of the same whollyowned group: see section 3285.

3265  Seminars (seminar expenses table item 2.1)

 (1) Seminar includes a conference, convention, lecture, meeting (including a meeting for the presentation of awards), speech, “question and answer session”, training session or educational course.

 (2) In working out whether a *seminar goes for at least 4 hours the following are taken not to affect the seminar’s continuity, nor to form part of it:

 (a) any part of the seminar that occurs during a meal;

 (b) any break during the seminar for the purpose of a meal, rest or *recreation.

 (3) A *seminar is a business meeting if its main purpose is for individuals who are (or will be) associated with the carrying on of a particular *business to give or receive information, or discuss matters, relating to the business.

  However, the *seminar is not a business meeting if it:

 (a) is organised by (or on behalf of) an employer solely for either or both of these purposes:

 (i) training the employer and the employer’s employees (or just those employees) in matters relevant to the employer’s *business (or prospective *business);

 (ii) enabling the employer and the employer’s employees (or just those employees) to discuss general policy issues relevant to the internal management of the employer’s *business; and

 (b) is conducted on property that is occupied by a person (other than the employer) whose *business includes organising seminars or making property available for conducting seminars.

Note 1: In the case of a company, subsection (3) covers directors of the company as if they were employees: see section 3280.

Note 2: In the case of a company, paragraph (3)(b) also covers property of another company that is a member of the same whollyowned group: see section 3285.

Note 3: Subsection (3) has a special operation for partnerships: see section 3290.

Subdivision 32DInhouse dining facilities (employer expenses table item 1.2)

Table of sections

3270 $30 is assessable for each meal provided to nonemployee in an inhouse dining facility

3270  $30 is assessable for each meal provided to nonemployee in an inhouse dining facility

 (1) Your assessable income includes $30 for a meal you provide in an *inhouse dining facility in the income year to an individual other than your employee, but only if:

 (a) you incur a loss or outgoing in respect of providing the meal; and

 (b) because of item 1.2 of the table in section 3230, section 325 does not stop you deducting the loss or outgoing under section 81 (which deals with general deductions); and

 (c) the loss or outgoing is one that you can deduct under section 81 for the income year or some other income year.

 (2) However, you can choose not to include in your assessable income $30 for each meal you provide in the *inhouse dining facility in the income year to an individual other than your employee.

Note: If you do choose, you cannot rely on item 1.2 of the table in section 3230 as a basis for deducting a loss or outgoing you incur in respect of providing a meal.

 (3) You must choose by the day you lodge your *income tax return for the income year, or within a further time allowed by the Commissioner.

Subdivision 32EAntiavoidance

Table of sections

3275 Commissioner may treat you as having incurred entertainment expense

3275  Commissioner may treat you as having incurred entertainment expense

  If:

 (a) you incur a loss or outgoing under an *arrangement; and

 (b) someone provides *entertainment under the arrangement to you or someone else; and

 (c) section 325 would have stopped you deducting the loss or outgoing under section 81 (which deals with general deductions) if you had incurred it in respect of providing that entertainment;

this Division applies to you as if you had incurred the loss or outgoing in providing that entertainment, to the extent (if any) that the Commissioner thinks reasonable.

Note: This means that section 325 will prevent you from deducting the loss or outgoing under section 81 unless an exception applies.

Example: A company pays $1,000 to sponsor a football game. Under the same arrangement, the company is given a viewing box at the game. To the extent the Commissioner thinks reasonable, he or she can treat the company as having incurred the $1,000 in providing entertainment.

Subdivision 32FSpecial rules for companies and partnerships

Table of sections

3280 Company directors

3285 Directors, employees and property of whollyowned group company

3290 Partnerships

3280  Company directors

  In the case of a company, these provisions cover directors of the company as if they were the company’s employees:

3285  Directors, employees and property of whollyowned group company

Employees and directors of group company

 (1) In the case of a company, these provisions cover directors and employees of another company that is a member of the same *whollyowned group as if they were the company’s own directors and employees:

Property occupied by group company

 (2) Those provisions also cover property occupied by that other company as if the company occupied that property.

3290  Partnerships

  In the case of a partnership:

apply to a partner in the same way as they apply to an employee of the partnership, but only for the purposes of calculating, in accordance with section 90 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, the partnership’s net income or partnership loss.

Division 34Noncompulsory uniforms

Table of Subdivisions

 Guide to Division 34

34A Application of Division 34

34B Deduction for your noncompulsory uniform

34C Registering the design of a noncompulsory uniform

34D Appeals from Industry Secretary’s decision

34E The Register of Approved Occupational Clothing

34F Approved occupational clothing guidelines

34G The Industry Secretary

Guide to Division 34

341  What this Division is about

This Division is about deductions for the costs of noncompulsory uniforms.

Table of sections

343 What you need to read

343  What you need to read

Employees

 (1) If you incur expenditure for your noncompulsory uniform, you need to read Subdivision 34B (which is about deductions for your noncompulsory uniform), starting at section 3410.

Employers

 (2) If you have people working for you who want to deduct expenditure of that kind, you need to read:

Subdivision 34AApplication of Division 34

Table of sections

345 This Division applies to employees and others

347 This Division applies to employers and others

345  This Division applies to employees and others

 (1) This Division applies not only to an individual who is an employee. It also applies to an individual who is not an employee, but who receives, or is entitled to receive, *withholding payments covered by subsection (3).

 (2) If an individual is not an employee, but is covered by subsection (1), this Division applies to the individual as if:

 (a) he or she were an employee; and

 (b) the entity, who pays (or is liable to pay) *withholding payments covered by subsection (3) that result in the individual being in receipt of, or entitled to receive, such payments, were the individual’s employer; and

 (c) any other individual who receives (or is entitled to receive) *withholding payments covered by subsection (3):

 (i) that result in that other individual being in receipt of, or entitled to receive, such payments; and

 (ii) that the entity pays (or is liable to pay) to that other individual;

  were an employee of the entity.

 (3) This subsection covers a *withholding payment covered by any of the provisions in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 listed in the table.

 

Withholding payments covered

Item

Provision

Subject matter

1

Section 1240

Payment to company director

2

Section 1245

Payment to office holder

3

Section 1250

Return to work payment

4

Subdivision 12D

Benefit, training and compensation payments

347  This Division applies to employers and others

  If an entity is not an employer, but pays (or is liable to pay) *withholding payments covered by subsection 345(3), this Division applies to the entity as if:

 (a) it were an employer; and

 (b) an individual to whom the entity pays (or is liable to pay) such withholding payments were the entity’s employee.

Subdivision 34BDeduction for your noncompulsory uniform

Table of sections

3410 What you can deduct

3415 What is a noncompulsory uniform?

3420 What are occupation specific clothing and protective clothing?

3410  What you can deduct

 (1) If you are an employee, you can deduct expenditure you incur in respect of your *noncompulsory *uniform if:

 (a) you can deduct the expenditure under another provision of this Act; and

 (b) the *design of the uniform is registered under this Division when you incur the expenditure.

Note 1: This Division also applies to individuals who are not employees: see Subdivision 34A.

Note 2: Employers apply to register designs of uniforms: see Subdivision 34C.

 (2) You cannot deduct the expenditure under this Act if the *design is not registered at the time you incur the expenditure.

 (3) However, this Division does not stop you deducting expenditure you incur in respect of your *occupation specific clothing or *protective clothing.

3415  What is a noncompulsory uniform?

What is a uniform?

 (1) A uniform is one or more items of clothing (including accessories) which, when considered as a set, distinctively identify you as a person associated (directly or indirectly) with:

 (a) your employer; or

 (b) a group consisting of your employer and one or more of your employer’s *associates.

When is a uniform noncompulsory?

 (2) Your uniform is noncompulsory unless your employer consistently enforces a policy that requires you and the other employees (except temporary or relief employees) who do the same type of work as you:

 (a) to wear the uniform when working for your employer; and

 (b) not to substitute an item of clothing not included in the uniform for an item of clothing included in the uniform when working for your employer;

except in special circumstances.

3420  What are occupation specific clothing and protective clothing?

 (1) Occupation specific clothing is clothing that distinctively identifies you as belonging to a particular profession, trade, vocation, occupation or calling. To determine this, disregard any feature of the clothing that distinctively identifies you as a person associated (directly or indirectly) with:

 (a) your employer; or

 (b) a group consisting of your employer and one or more of your employer’s *associates.

Example: Occupation specific clothing includes a nurse’s uniform, a chef’s checked pants and a religious cleric’s ceremonial robes.

 (2) Protective clothing is clothing of a kind that you mainly use to protect yourself, or someone else, from risk of:

 (a) death; or

 (b) *disease (including the contraction, aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of a disease); or

 (c) injury (including the aggravation, acceleration or recurrence of an injury); or

 (d) damage to clothing; or

 (e) damage to an artificial limb or other artificial substitute, or to a medical, surgical or other similar aid or appliance.

Example: Protective clothing includes overalls, aprons, goggles, hard hats and safety boots, when worn to protect the wearer.

Meaning of disease

 (3) Disease includes any mental or physical ailment, disorder, defect or morbid condition, whether of sudden onset or gradual development and whether of genetic or other origin.

Subdivision 34CRegistering the design of a noncompulsory uniform

Table of sections

3425 Application to register the design

3430 Industry Secretary’s decision on application

3433 Written notice of decision

3435 When uniform becomes registered

3425  Application to register the design

 (1) The employer of an employee who has, or will have, a *noncompulsory *uniform can apply to the *Industry Secretary for the *design of the uniform to be registered.

Note: This Division also applies to entities that are not employers: see Subdivision 34A.

Meaning of design of a uniform

 (2) The design of a *uniform includes features such as its colouring, construction, durability, ornamentation, pattern and shape.

Form of application

 (3) The application must be:

 (a) in writing; and

 (b) in a form approved in writing by the *Industry Secretary; and

 (c) accompanied by such information as the Industry Secretary requires.

3430  Industry Secretary’s decision on application

Industry Secretary must decide to grant or refuse application

 (1) After considering the application, the *Industry Secretary must decide to either grant or refuse the application.

Criteria for grant of application

 (2) The *Industry Secretary must not decide to grant an application unless he or she is satisfied that the design meets the criteria set out in the *approved occupational clothing guidelines.

Note: The approved occupational clothing guidelines are created under section 3455.

When Industry Secretary taken to have refused application

 (3) The *Industry Secretary is taken to have refused an application if he or she does not make a decision by the later of the following times (the deadline):

 (a) the end of 90 days (the 90day period) after the day the Industry Secretary receives the application;

 (b) if the Industry Secretary, by written notice given to the applicant within the 90day period, requests the applicant to give further information about the application—the end of 90 days after the Industry Secretary receives the further information.

3433  Written notice of decision

 (1) If the *Industry Secretary makes a decision to grant or refuse an application under subsection 3430(1) before the *deadline, the Industry Secretary must give the applicant written notice of the decision.

Reasons for refusal

 (2) If the notice is a notice of a decision to refuse the application, it must also set out the reasons for the refusal.

Statements to accompany notice of decision

 (3) The notice of the decision is to include the statements set out in subsections (4) and (5).

 (4) There must be a statement to the effect that, subject to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975, an application may be made to the *AAT, by (or on behalf of) any entity whose interests are affected by the decision, for review of the decision.

 (5) There must also be a statement to the effect that a request may be made under section 28 of that Act by (or on behalf of) such an entity for a statement:

 (a) setting out the findings on material questions of fact; and

 (b) referring to the evidence or other material on which those findings were based; and

 (c) giving the reasons for the decision;

except where subsection 28(4) of that Act applies.

Failure does not affect validity

 (6) If the *Industry Secretary fails to comply with subsection (4) or (5), that failure does not affect the validity of his or her decision.

3435  When uniform becomes registered

  If the *Industry Secretary decides to grant the application, the *design of the *uniform becomes registered on:

 (a) the day the decision is made; or

 (b) if the applicant requests—such earlier day as the Industry Secretary specifies.

Note: When the design becomes registered, an entry for the design is made on the Register of Approved Occupational Clothing. Subdivision 34E is about the Register.

Subdivision 34DAppeals from Industry Secretary’s decision

Table of sections

3440 Review of decisions by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal

3440  Review of decisions by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal

  Applications may be made to the *AAT for review of a decision made by the *Industry Secretary under subsection 3430(1).

Subdivision 34EThe Register of Approved Occupational Clothing

Table of sections

3445 Keeping of the Register

3450 Changes to the Register

3445  Keeping of the Register

 (1) The *Industry Secretary must keep the Register of Approved Occupational Clothing, listing the designs that are required to be entered on the Register because of this Division.

Register to be open for inspection

 (2) The *Industry Secretary must arrange for the Register to be available for inspection at any reasonable time by any person on request.

3450  Changes to the Register

Removal of registration

 (1) The *Industry Secretary must remove an entry for a *design from the Register of Approved Occupational Clothing if requested to do so by the employer who applied for the design to be registered.

Correcting errors and mistakes

 (2) The *Industry Secretary may correct a clerical error or an obvious mistake in an entry for a design in the Register and, if the Industry Secretary does so, the correction takes effect on the day on which the design to which the entry relates was registered.

Subdivision 34FApproved occupational clothing guidelines

Table of sections

3455 Approved occupational clothing guidelines

3455  Approved occupational clothing guidelines

 (1) The Minister must, by legislative instrument, formulate written guidelines (the approved occupational clothing guidelines) setting out criteria that *designs of uniforms must meet if the designs are to be registered.

Matters to be taken into account in making guidelines

 (2) In making *approved occupational clothing guidelines, the matters to which the Minister is to have regard include:

 (a) how distinctively a *uniform’s *design identifies the wearer as a person associated (directly or indirectly) with:

 (i) the applicant for registering the uniform’s design; or

 (ii) a group consisting of the applicant and one or more of the applicant’s *associates; and

 (b) the nature of the *business or activities the applicant carries on.

Subdivision 34GThe Industry Secretary

Table of sections

3460 Industry Secretary to give Commissioner information about entries

3465 Delegation of powers by Industry Secretary

3460  Industry Secretary to give Commissioner information about entries

  The *Industry Secretary must give the Commissioner information about entries of *designs on the Register of Approved Occupational Clothing if the Commissioner requests him or her to do so.

3465  Delegation of powers by Industry Secretary

  The *Industry Secretary may, by writing, delegate any or all of his or her functions and powers under this Division to a person in the *Industry Department:

 (a) who holds or performs the duties of a *Senior Executive Service office; or

 (b) whose classification level appears in Group 7 or 8 of Schedule 1 to the Classification Rules under the Public Service Act 1999; or

 (c) who is acting in a position usually occupied by a person with a classification level of the kind mentioned in paragraph (b).

Division 35Deferral of losses from noncommercial business activities

Guide to Division 35

351  What this Division is about

This Division prevents losses of individuals from noncommercial business activities being offset against other assessable income in the year the loss is incurred. The loss is deferred.

It sets out an income requirement and a series of tests to determine whether a business activity is treated as being noncommercial.

The deferred losses may be offset in later years against profits from the activity. They may also be offset against other income if the income requirement and one of the other tests are satisfied, or if the Commissioner exercises a discretion.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

355 Object

3510 Deferral of deductions from noncommercial business activities

3515 Modification if you have exempt income

3520 Modification if you become bankrupt

3525 Application of Division to certain partnerships

3530 Assessable income test

3535 Profits test

3540 Real property test

3545 Other assets test

3550 Apportionment

3555 Commissioner’s discretion

Operative provisions

355  Object

 (1) The object of this Division is to improve the integrity of the taxation system by:

 (a) preventing losses from noncommercial activities that are carried on as *businesses by individuals (alone or in partnership) being offset against other assessable income; and

 (b) preventing prebusiness capital expenditure and postbusiness capital expenditure by individuals (alone or in partnership) in relation to noncommercial activities being deductible under section 40880 (business related costs);

unless certain exceptions apply.

 (2) This Division is not intended to apply to activities that do not constitute carrying on a *business (for example, the receipt of income from passive investments).

3510  Deferral of deductions from noncommercial business activities

 (1) The rule in subsection (2) applies for an income year to each *business activity you carried on in that year if you are an individual, either alone or in partnership (whether or not some other entity is a member of the partnership), unless:

 (a) you satisfy subsection (2E) for that year, and one of the tests set out in any of the following provisions is satisfied for the business activity for that year:

 (i) section 3530 (assessable income test);

 (ii) section 3535 (profits test);

 (iii) section 3540 (real property test);

 (iv) section 3545 (other assets test); or

 (b) the Commissioner has exercised the discretion set out in section 3555 for the business activity for that year; or

 (c) the exception in subsection (4) applies for that year.

Note: This section covers individuals carrying on a business activity as partners, but not individuals merely in receipt of income jointly. Compare the definition of partnership in subsection 9951(1).

Rules

 (2) If the amounts attributable to the *business activity for that income year that you could otherwise deduct under this Act for that year exceed your assessable income (if any) from the business activity for that year, or your share of it, this Act applies to you as if the excess:

 (a) were not incurred in that income year; and

 (b) were an amount attributable to the activity that you can deduct from assessable income from the activity for the next income year in which the activity is carried on.

Note 1: There are modifications of this rule if you have exempt income (see section 3515) or you become bankrupt (see section 3520).

Note 2: This rule does not apply if your excess is solely due to deductions under Division 41 (see section 3510 of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997).

Example: Jennifer has a salaried job, and she also carries on a business activity consisting of selling lingerie.

 Jennifer starts that activity on 1 July 2002, and for the 200203 income year, the activity produces assessable income of $8,000 and deductions of $10,000. The activity does not pass any of the tests and the discretion is not exercised so the $2,000 excess is carried over to the next income year in which the activity is carried on.

 For the 200304 income year, the activity produces assessable income of $9,000 and deductions of $10,000 (excluding the $2,000 excess from 200203). Again, no tests passed and no exercise of discretion.

 $3,000 is carried over to the next income year (comprising the $1,000 excess for the current year, plus the previous year’s $2,000 excess) when the activity is carried on.

 (2A) You cannot deduct an amount under section 40880 (business related costs) for expenditure in relation to a *business activity you used to carry on if you are an individual, either alone or in partnership (whether or not some other entity is a member of the partnership) unless:

 (a) you satisfied subsection (2E), and one of the tests set out in any of the following provisions was satisfied for the business activity:

 (i) section 3530 (assessable income test);

 (ii) section 3535 (profits test);

 (iii) section 3540 (real property test);

 (iv) section 3545 (other assets test); or

 (b) the Commissioner has exercised the discretion set out in section 3555 for the business activity; or

 (c) the exception in subsection (4) applied;

for the income year in which the business activity ceased to be carried on or an earlier income year.

 (2B) If you are an individual, either alone or in partnership (whether or not some other entity is a member of the partnership), you cannot deduct an amount under section 40880 (business related costs) for expenditure in relation to a *business activity:

 (a) you propose to carry on; or

 (b) another entity proposes to carry on if the other entity is not an individual, either alone or in partnership;

for an income year before the one in which the business activity starts to be carried on.

 (2C) This section applies to an amount that you could have deducted, apart from paragraph (2B)(a), as if it were an amount attributable to the *business activity that you can deduct from assessable income from the activity for the income year in which the business activity starts to be carried on.

 (2D) You can deduct expenditure covered by paragraph (2B)(b) for the income year in which the *business activity starts to be carried on.

Income requirement

 (2E) You satisfy this subsection for an income year if the sum of the following is less than $250,000:

 (a) your taxable income for that year, disregarding your *assessable FHSS released amount for that year;

 (b) your *reportable fringe benefits total for that year;

 (c) your *reportable superannuation contributions for that year;

 (d) your *total net investment losses for that year.

For the purposes of paragraph (a), when working out your taxable income, disregard any excess mentioned in subsection (2) for any *business activity for that year that you could otherwise deduct under this Act for that year.

Grouping business activities

 (3) In applying this Division, you may group together *business activities of a similar kind.

Exceptions

 (4) The rule in subsection (2), (2A) or (2B) does not apply to a *business activity for an income year if:

 (a) the activity is a *primary production business, or a *professional arts business; and

 (b) your assessable income for that year (except any *net capital gain) from other sources that do not relate to that activity is less than $40,000.

 (5) A professional arts business is a *business you carry on as:

 (a) the author of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work; or

Note: The expression “author” is a technical term from copyright law.  In general, the “author” of a musical work is its composer and the “author” of an artistic work is the artist, sculptor or photographer who created it.

 (b) a *performing artist; or

 (c) a *production associate.

3515  Modification if you have exempt income

 (1) The rule in subsection 3510(2) may be modified for an income year if you *derived *exempt income in that year.

 (2) Any amount to which paragraph 3510(2)(b) would otherwise apply for an income year for you is reduced by your *net exempt income for that year (after *utilising the net exempt income under section 3610 or 3615 (about tax losses)). This reduction is made before you apply the paragraph 3510(2)(b) amount against assessable income from the *business activity.

3520  Modification if you become bankrupt

 (1) The rule in subsection 3510(2) or (2A) is modified as set out in subsection (3) for an income year if in that year (the current year) you become bankrupt or are released from a debt by the operation of an Act relating to bankruptcy.

 (2) The rule is also modified as set out in subsection (3) if:

 (a) you became bankrupt before the current year; and

 (b) the bankruptcy is annulled in the current year under section 74 of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 because your creditors have accepted a proposal for a composition or scheme of arrangement; and

 (c) under the composition or scheme of arrangement, you have been, will be or may be released from some or all of the debts from which you would have been released if you had instead been discharged from the bankruptcy.

 (3) This Act applies to you as if any amount that:

 (a) paragraph 3510(2)(b) had applied to for an income year before the current year for you; and

 (b) you have not yet deducted;

were not an amount attributable to the *business activity that you can deduct for the current year or a later income year.

3525  Application of Division to certain partnerships

  For the purpose of applying the tests in sections 3530, 3540 and 3545 where you carry on a *business activity in an income year as a partner, ignore:

 (a) any part of the assessable income from the business activity for the year that is attributable to the interest of a partner that is not an individual in the partnership net income or partnership loss for the year; and

 (b) any part of the assessable income from the business activity for the year that is *derived from the activity by another partner otherwise than as a member of the partnership; and

 (c) any part of the *reduced cost bases or other values of assets of the partnership used in carrying on the activity in that year that is attributable to the interest of a partner that is not an individual in those assets; and

 (d) any part of the reduced cost bases or other values of assets owned or leased by another partner that are not partnership assets and used in carrying on the activity in that year.

3530  Assessable income test

  The rules in section 3510 do not apply to a *business activity for an income year if:

 (a) the amount of assessable income from the business activity for the year; or

 (b) you started to carry on the business activity, or stopped carrying it on, during the year—a reasonable estimate of what would have been the amount of that assessable income if you had carried on that activity throughout the year;

is at least $20,000.

3535  Profits test

 (1) The rules in section 3510 do not apply to a *business activity (except an activity carried on by one or more individuals as partners, whether or not some other entity is a member of the partnership) for an income year (the current year) if, for each of at least 3 of the past 5 income years (including the current year) the sum of the deductions attributable to that activity for that year (apart from the operation of subsections 3510(2) and (2C)) is less than the assessable income from the activity for that year.

 (2) For a *business activity you carried on with one or more others as partners, the rules in section 3510 do not apply to you for the current year if, for each of at least 3 of the past 5 income years (including the current year) the sum of your deductions (including your share of the partnership deductions) attributable to that activity for that year (apart from the operation of subsections 3510(2) and (2C)) is less than your assessable income (including your share of the partnership’s assessable income) from the activity for that year.

3540  Real property test

 (1) The rules in section 3510 do not apply to a *business activity for an income year if the total *reduced cost bases of real property or interests in real property used on a continuing basis in carrying on the activity in that year is at least $500,000.

 (2) You may use the *market value of the real property or interest if that value is more than its *reduced cost base.

 (3) The *reduced cost base or *market value is worked out:

 (a) as at the end of the income year; or

 (b) if you stopped carrying on the *business activity during the year:

 (i) as at the time you stopped; or

 (ii) if you disposed of the asset before that time in the course of stopping carrying on the activity—as at the time you disposed of it.

 (4) However, these assets are not counted for this test:

 (a) a *dwelling, and any adjacent land used in association with the dwelling, that is used mainly for private purposes;

 (b) fixtures owned by you as a tenant.

3545  Other assets test

 (1) The rules in section 3510 do not apply to a *business activity for an income year if the total values of assets that are counted for this test (see subsections (2) and (4)) and that are used on a continuing basis in carrying on the activity in that year is at least $100,000.

 (2) The assets counted for this test, and their values for this test, are set out in this table:

 

Assets counted for this test and their values

Item

Asset

Value

1

An asset whose decline in value you can deduct under Division 40

The asset’s *written down value

2

An item of *trading stock

Its value under subsection 7045(1)

3

An asset that you lease from another entity

The sum of the amounts of the future lease payments for the asset to which you are irrevocably committed, less an appropriate amount to reflect any interest component for those lease payments

4

Trade marks, patents, copyrights and similar rights

Their *reduced cost base

 (3) The value of such an asset is worked out:

 (a) as at the end of the income year; or

 (b) if you stopped carrying on the *business activity during the year:

 (i) as at the time you stopped; or

 (ii) if you disposed of the asset before that time in the course of stopping carrying on the activity—as at the time you disposed of it.

 (4) However, these assets are not counted for this test:

 (a) assets that are real property or interests in real property that are taken into account for that year under section 3540;

 (b) *cars, motor cycles and similar vehicles.

3550  Apportionment

  If an asset that is being taken into account under section 3540 or 3545 is used during an income year partly in carrying on the relevant *business activity and partly for other purposes, only that part of its *reduced cost base, *market value or other value that is attributable to its use in carrying on the business activity in that year is taken into account for that section.

3555  Commissioner’s discretion

 (1) The Commissioner may, on application, decide that the rule in subsection 3510(2) does not apply to a *business activity for one or more income years (the excluded years) if the Commissioner is satisfied that it would be unreasonable to apply that rule because:

 (a) the business activity was or will be affected in the excluded years by special circumstances outside the control of the operators of the business activity, including drought, flood, bushfire or some other natural disaster; or

Note: This paragraph is intended to provide for a case where a business activity would have satisfied one of the tests if it were not for the special circumstances.

 (b) for an applicant who carries on the business activity who satisfies subsection 3510(2E) (income requirement) for the most recent income year ending before the application is made—the business activity has started to be carried on and, for the excluded years:

 (i) because of its nature, it has not satisfied, or will not satisfy, one of the tests set out in section 3530, 3535, 3540 or 3545; and

 (ii) there is an objective expectation, based on evidence from independent sources (where available) that, within a period that is commercially viable for the industry concerned, the activity will either meet one of those tests or will produce assessable income for an income year greater than the deductions attributable to it for that year (apart from the operation of subsections 3510(2) and (2C)); or

 (c) for an applicant who carries on the business activity who does not satisfy subsection 3510(2E) (income requirement) for the most recent income year ending before the application is made—the business activity has started to be carried on and, for the excluded years:

 (i) because of its nature, it has not produced, or will not produce, assessable income greater than the deductions attributable to it; and

 (ii) there is an objective expectation, based on evidence from independent sources (where available) that, within a period that is commercially viable for the industry concerned, the activity will produce assessable income for an income year greater than the deductions attributable to it for that year (apart from the operation of subsections 3510(2) and (2C)).

Note: Paragraphs (b) and (c) are intended to cover a business activity that has a lead time between the commencement of the activity and the production of any assessable income. For example, an activity involving the planting of hardwood trees for harvest, where many years would pass before the activity could reasonably be expected to produce income.

 (2) The Commissioner may, on application, decide that the rule in subsection 3510(2B) does not apply to a *business activity for an income year if the Commissioner is satisfied that it would be unreasonable to apply that rule because special circumstances of the kind referred to in paragraph (1)(a) of this section prevented the activity from starting.

Note: This subsection is intended to provide for a case where a business activity would have begun to be carried on and satisfied one of the tests if it were not for the special circumstances.

 (3) An application for a decision by the Commissioner under this section must be made in the *approved form.

Division 36Tax losses of earlier income years

Table of Subdivisions

 Guide to Division 36

36A Deductions for tax losses of earlier income years

36B Effect of you becoming bankrupt

36C Excess franking offsets

Guide to Division 36

361  What this Division is about

If you have more deductions for an income year than you have income, the difference is a tax loss.

Note: You may be able to utilise the tax loss in that or a later income year.

Subdivision 36ADeductions for tax losses of earlier income years

Table of sections

3610 How to calculate a tax loss for an income year

3615 How to deduct tax losses of entities other than corporate tax entities

3617 How to deduct tax losses of corporate tax entities

3620 Net exempt income

3625 Special rules about tax losses

3610  How to calculate a tax loss for an income year

 (1) Add up the amounts you can deduct for an income year (except *tax losses for earlier income years).

 (2) Subtract your total assessable income.

 (3) If you *derived *exempt income, also subtract your *net exempt income (worked out under section 3620).

 (4) Any amount remaining is your tax loss for the income year, which is called a loss year.

Note 1: Some deductions are limited so that they cannot contribute to a tax loss. See section 2655 (Limit on certain deductions).

Note 2: The meanings of tax loss and loss year are modified by section 3655 for a corporate tax entity that has an amount of excess franking offsets.

 (5) For subsection (3), if you have *exempt income under section 51100 (about shipping), disregard 90% of so much of your *net exempt income as directly relates to that exempt income.

3615  How to deduct tax losses of entities other than corporate tax entities

 (1) Your *tax loss for a *loss year is deducted in a later income year as follows if you are not a *corporate tax entity at any time during the later income year.

Note 1: See section 3617 for the deduction of a tax loss of an entity that is a corporate tax entity at any time during the later income year.

Note 2: A tax loss can be deducted only to the extent that it has not already been utilised: see subsection 96020(1).

If you have no net exempt income

 (2) If your total assessable income for the later income year exceeds your total deductions (other than *tax losses), you deduct the tax loss from that excess.

If you have net exempt income

 (3) If you have *net exempt income for the later income year and your total assessable income (if any) for the later income year exceeds your total deductions (except *tax losses), you deduct the tax loss:

 (a) first, from your net exempt income; and

 (b) secondly, from the part of your total assessable income that exceeds those deductions.

 (4) However, if you have *net exempt income for the later income year and those deductions exceed your total assessable income, then:

 (a) subtract that excess from your net exempt income; and

 (b) deduct the tax loss from any net exempt income that remains.

To work out your net exempt income: see section 3620.

General

 (5) If you have 2 or more *tax losses, you deduct them in the order in which you incurred them.

3617  How to deduct tax losses of corporate tax entities

 (1) A *tax loss of an entity for a *loss year is deducted in a later income year as follows if the entity is a *corporate tax entity at any time during the later income year.

Note: A tax loss can be deducted under this section only to the extent that it has not already been utilised: see subsection 96020(1).

If the entity has no net exempt income

 (2) If the entity’s total assessable income for the later income year exceeds the entity’s total deductions (except *tax losses), the entity is to deduct from that excess so much of the tax loss as the entity chooses. The entity may choose a nil amount.

If the entity has net exempt income

 (3) If the entity has *net exempt income for the later income year and the entity’s total assessable income (if any) for that year exceeds the entity’s total deductions (except *tax losses), the entity is to:

 (a) first, deduct the tax loss from the net exempt income; and

 (b) secondly, deduct from the part of the total assessable income that exceeds those deductions so much of the undeducted amount of the tax loss (if any) as the entity chooses.

The entity may choose a nil amount under paragraph (b).

Note: To work out the corporate tax entity’s net exempt income: see section 3620.

 (4) However, if the entity has *net exempt income for the later income year and those deductions exceed the entity’s total assessable income, the entity is to:

 (a) subtract that excess from the net exempt income; and

 (b) deduct the *tax loss from any net exempt income that remains.

Note: This means there is no choice available under this subsection.

 (4A) For subsection (3) or (4), if the entity has *exempt income under section 51100 (about shipping) for the later income year, disregard 90% of so much of the entity’s *net exempt income for the later income year as directly relates to that exempt income.

Limit to how much the entity can choose

 (5) The choice that the entity has under subsection (2) or (3) for the later income year is subject to both of the following:

 (a) the entity must choose a nil amount if, disregarding the *tax loss and other tax losses of the entity, the entity would have an amount of *excess franking offsets for that year;

 (b) if, disregarding the tax loss and other tax losses of the entity, the entity would not have an amount of excess franking offsets for that year—the entity must not choose an amount that would result in the entity having an amount of excess franking offsets for that year.

Example: For the 201718 income year, Company A (which is not a base rate entity) has:

 The tax offset of $30 from the franking credit is not stated in Division 67 to be subject to the refundable tax offset rules.

 Company A would not have an amount of excess franking offsets for that year if the tax loss were disregarded (see section 3655). This is because the tax offset of $30 is less than $60, the amount of income tax that Company A would have to pay if it did not have the tax offset and the tax loss. Paragraph (a) therefore does not apply.

 If Company A chooses to deduct the full amount of the tax loss, it would have an amount of excess franking offsets of $15:

 

 Company A therefore cannot make this choice because of paragraph (b).

 However, if Company A chooses to deduct $100 of the tax loss, it would not have an amount of excess franking offsets:

 

 Company A therefore can choose to deduct $100 of the tax loss.

 (6) The entity must state its choice under subsection (2) or (3) in its *income tax return for the later income year.

General

 (7) If the entity has 2 or more *tax losses, the entity is to deduct them in the order in which the entity incurred them.

Recalculation of amounts resulting in a choice or a change of a choice

 (10) Subsection (11) or (12) applies if at least one of the following amounts is recalculated after an entity has lodged its *income tax return for an income year:

 (a) the amount of a *tax loss that the entity can *utilise in that year;

 (b) the amount of the difference between the entity’s total assessable income for that year and the entity’s total deductions (other than *tax losses) for that year;

 (c) the amount of the entity’s *net exempt income for that year;

whether or not the amount is recalculated in an amendment of the entity’s assessment for that year, and whether or not the amount was a nil amount before the recalculation (or has become a nil amount after the recalculation).

 (11) If:

 (a) before the recalculation, a choice under subsection (2) or (3) for the income year was not available to the entity; but

 (b) as a result of the recalculation, the choice has (apart from subsection (6)) become available to the entity;

the entity can make that choice by written notice given to the Commissioner.

 (12) If:

 (a) the entity made a choice under subsection (2) or (3) for the income year; but

 (b) as a result of the recalculation, the entity wishes to change that choice;

the entity can do so by written notice given to the Commissioner.

 (13) Subsections (10) to (12) have effect subject to section 170 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (about amendment of assessments).

3620  Net exempt income

 (1) If you are an Australian resident, your net exempt income is the amount by which your total *exempt income from all sources exceeds the total of:

 (a) the losses and outgoings (except capital losses and outgoings) you incurred in deriving that exempt income; and

 (b) any taxes payable outside Australia on that exempt income.

 (2) If you are a foreign resident, your net exempt income is the amount (if any) by which the total of:

 (a) your *exempt income *derived from sources in Australia; and

 (b) your exempt income to which section 26AG (Certain film proceeds included in assessable income) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 applies;

exceeds the total of:

 (c) the losses and outgoings (except capital losses and outgoings) you incurred in deriving exempt income covered by paragraph (a) or (b); and

 (d) any taxes payable outside Australia on income covered by paragraph (b).

3625  Special rules about tax losses

Tax losses of individuals

 

Item

For the special rules about this situation ...

See:

1.

You go bankrupt, or you are released from debts under a bankruptcy law: your right to deduct tax losses of an earlier income year may be affected.

Subdivision 36B

Tax losses of companies

 

Item

For the special rules about this situation ...

See:

1.

A company has had a change of ownership or control during the income year, and has not satisfied the business continuity test: it works out its taxable income and its tax loss in a special way.

Subdivision 165B

2.

A company wants to deduct a tax loss. It cannot do so unless:

 the same people owned the company during the loss year, the income year and any intervening year; and

Subdivision 165A

 

 no person controlled the company’s voting power at any time during the income year who did not also control it during the whole of the loss year and any intervening year;

or the company has satisfied the business continuity test.

 

3.

One or more of these things happen:

 income is injected into a company;

 a tax benefit is obtained from available losses or deductions;

 a deduction is injected into a company;

 a tax benefit is obtained because of available income.

The Commissioner can disallow tax losses or current year deductions.

Division 175

4.

A company can transfer a surplus amount of its tax loss to another company so that the other company can deduct the amount in the income year of the transfer. (Both companies must be members of the same whollyowned group.)

Subdivision 170A

 

See also: Tax losses of pooled development funds (PDFs) below

 

5.

A life insurance company

Subdivision 320D

6.

A company is a designated infrastructure project entity.

Subdivision 415B

Tax losses of corporate tax entities

 

Item

For the special rules about this situation...

See:

1.

A corporate tax entity that has an amount of excess franking offsets for an income year: it works out its tax loss in a special way.

Subdivision 36C

Tax losses of entities generally

 

Item

For the special rules about this situation ...

See:

3.

You have deductions in relation to deriving income under section 26AG of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 from the proceeds of a film: your tax loss may have a film component, which is deductible from your film income only.

Former Subdivision 375G

Tax losses of pooled development funds (PDFs)

 

Item

For the special rules about this situation ...

See:

1.

A company is a pooled development fund (PDF) at the end of an income year for which it has a tax loss: it can only deduct the loss while it is a PDF.

Section 1955

2.

A company becomes a PDF during an income year: special rules affect how it works out a tax loss and how the loss is utilised.

Section 19515

Tax losses of VCLPs, ESVCLPs, AFOFs and VCMPs

 

Item

For the special rules about this situation ...

See:

1.

A limited partnership that has a tax loss becomes a VCLP, an ESVCLP, an AFOF or a VCMP: it cannot deduct the loss while it is a VCLP, an ESVCLP, an AFOF or a VCMP.

Subdivision 195B

Tax losses of entities that become foreign hybrids

 

Item

For the special rules about this situation...

See:

1.

An entity that has a tax loss becomes a foreign hybrid: it cannot deduct the loss while it is a foreign hybrid.

Section 830115

Tax losses of trusts

 

Item

For the special rules about this subsection...

See:

1.

A trust has had a change of ownership or control or there has been an abnormal trading in its units:

 if this happens in the income year, it works out its net income and tax loss in a special way; or

 if this happens at any time from the start of a loss year until the end of the income year, it cannot deduct a tax loss from the loss year.

This will not be the case if the trust is an excepted trust. However, if it became one by making a family trust election, a special tax may be payable on certain distributions and other amounts.

Divisions 266, 267 and 268 in Schedule 2F to the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

2.

A trust is involved in a scheme to take advantage of deductions. The trust may be prevented from making full use of them.

Division 270 in Schedule 2F to the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

3.

A trust is a designated infrastructure project entity.

Subdivision 415B

Tax losses of greenfields minerals explorers

 

Item

For the special rules about this situation...

See:

1.

A greenfields minerals explorer creates exploration credits.

Section 41895

Subdivision 36BEffect of you becoming bankrupt

Guide to Subdivision 36B

3630  What this Subdivision is about

After you become bankrupt, you cannot deduct a tax loss that you incurred beforehand. However, you may be able to deduct repayments of debts you incurred in the loss year.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

3635 No deduction for tax loss incurred before bankruptcy

3640 Deduction for amounts paid for debts incurred before bankruptcy

3645 Limit on deductions for amounts paid

Operative provisions

3635  No deduction for tax loss incurred before bankruptcy

 (1) If:

 (a) you became bankrupt; or

 (b) you were released from a debt by the operation of an Act relating to bankruptcy;

before the income year, you cannot deduct a *tax loss that you incurred before the day on which you either became bankrupt or were released.

 (2) If:

 (a) you became bankrupt before the income year; and

 (b) the bankruptcy is later annulled under section 74 of the Bankruptcy Act 1966 because your creditors have accepted your proposal for a composition or scheme of arrangement; and

 (c) under the composition or scheme of arrangement, you have been, will be or may be released from some or all of the debts from which you would have been released if you had instead been discharged from the bankruptcy;

you cannot deduct a *tax loss that you incurred before the day on which you became bankrupt.

3640  Deduction for amounts paid for debts incurred before bankruptcy

Tax losses generally

 (1) If:

 (a) you pay an amount in the income year for a debt that you incurred in an earlier income year; and

 (b) you have a *tax loss covered by section 3635 for that earlier income year;

you can deduct the amount paid, but only to the extent that it does not exceed so much of the debt as the Commissioner is satisfied was taken into account in calculating the amount of the tax loss.

Film losses

 (2) If:

 (a) you pay an amount in the income year for a debt that you incurred in an earlier income year; and

 (b) you incurred the debt in the course of deriving or gaining *assessable film income or *exempt film income; and

 (c) you also incurred a *film loss covered by section 3635 in that earlier income year;

you can deduct the amount paid, but only to the extent that it does not exceed so much of the debt as the Commissioner is satisfied was taken into account in calculating the amount of the film loss.

 (3) A film loss is the *film component (if any) of a *tax loss.

 (4) Your *tax loss for an income year has a film component if your *film deductions for the year exceed the sum of:

 (a) your *assessable film income for the year; and

 (b) your *net exempt film income for the year.

The amount of the film component is the excess or the tax loss, whichever is lesser.

 (5) However, if your *tax loss worked out under a provision listed in the table, the film component is what that tax loss would have been if:

 (a) your *film deductions for the *loss year had been your only deductions; and

 (b) your *assessable film income for the loss year had been your only assessable income; and

 (c) your *net exempt film income for the loss year had been your only *net exempt income.

However, the film component cannot exceed the actual tax loss.

 

Working out film component of tax loss

Item

Provision

Type of entity

1

16570

Company—income year when ownership or control changed

2

17535

Company—deductions that have been used to obtain a tax benefit disallowed

3

26860 in Schedule 2F to the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

Trust—income year when ownership or control changed

3645  Limit on deductions for amounts paid

Tax losses generally

 (1) The total of your deductions under subsection 3640(1) for amounts paid in the income year for debts incurred in the *loss year cannot exceed the amount of the *tax loss reduced by the sum of:

 (a) your deductions under that subsection for amounts paid in earlier income years for debts incurred in the loss year; and

 (b) any amounts of the tax loss *utilised in earlier income years; and

 (c) any amounts of the tax loss that, apart from section 3635, would have been deductible from your *net exempt income for the income year or earlier income years.

Film losses

 (2) The total of your deductions under subsection 3640(2) for amounts paid in the income year for debts incurred in the *loss year cannot exceed the amount of the *film loss reduced by the sum of:

 (a) your deductions under that subsection for amounts paid in earlier income years for debts incurred in the loss year; and

 (b) any amounts of the film loss deducted in earlier income years; and

 (c) any amounts of the film loss that, apart from section 3635, would have been deductible from your *net exempt film income for the income year or earlier income years.

Subdivision 36CExcess franking offsets

Guide to Subdivision 36C

3650  What this Subdivision is about

Amounts of tax offsets to which a corporate tax entity is entitled under Division 207 and Subdivision 210H may in some circumstances be converted into an amount of a tax loss for the entity.

Table of sections

Operative provision

3655 Converting excess franking offsets into tax loss

Operative provision

3655  Converting excess franking offsets into tax loss

Excess franking offsets

 (1) An entity that is a *corporate tax entity at any time during an income year has an amount of excess franking offsets for that year if:

 (a) the total amount of *tax offsets to which the entity is entitled for that year under Division 207 and Subdivision 210H (except those that are subject to the refundable tax offset rules because of section 6725);

exceeds:

 (b) the amount of income tax that the entity would have to pay on its taxable income for that year if:

 (i) it did not have those tax offsets; and

 (ii) it did not have any tax offsets that are subject to the tax offset carry forward rules or the refundable tax offset rules; and

 (iii) it did not have any tax offset under section 20570;

  but had all its other tax offsets.

The excess is the amount of excess franking offsets.

Note: Division 65 sets out the tax offset carry forward rules. Division 67 sets out which tax offsets are subject to the refundable tax offset rules.

Example: For the 201718 income year, Company E (which is not a base rate entity) has:

 The tax offset of $60 from the franking credit is not stated in Division 67 to be subject to the refundable tax offset rules.

 Disregarding the tax offset of $60 from the franking credit, the amount of income tax that Company E would have to pay is $30:

 

 This amount is $30 less than the tax offset of $60. Company E therefore has an amount of excess franking offsets of $30 for that year.

How to work out the amount of the tax loss

 (2) For the purposes of this Act, if:

 (a) an entity has an amount of *excess franking offsets for an income year; and

 (b) the result of applying the following method statement is a positive amount;

then:

 (c) the entity is taken to have a *tax loss for that year equal to that positive amount (instead of an amount of tax loss worked out under section 3610, 16570, 17535 or 70130); and

 (d) that year is taken to be a *loss year for the entity if the entity would not otherwise have a tax loss for that year.

Method statement

Step 1. Work out the amount (if any) that would have been the entity’s *tax loss for that year under section 3610, 16570, 17535 or 70130 if the entity’s *net exempt income for that year (if any) were disregarded.

 Note: See section 3620 for the calculation of net exempt income.

Step 2. Divide the amount of *excess franking offsets by the entity’s *corporate tax rate for imputation purposes for that year.

Step 3. Add the results of steps 1 and 2.

Step 4. Reduce the result of step 3 by the entity’s *net exempt income for that year (if any).

 The result of this step is taken to be the entity’s *tax loss for that year. However, if the result of this step is nil or a negative amount, the company does not have any tax loss for that year.

Example: Assume that company E did not derive any exempt income for the 20172018 income year and that it would not otherwise have any tax loss for that year under section 3610, 16570, 17535 or 70130.

 Applying the method statement, the amount of excess franking offsets of $30 generates a tax loss of $100 for that year, which can be deducted in a later income year under section 3615 or 3617.