Internet
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Publications
Publications relevant to this guide include:
- Capital allowances schedule instructions 2007 (NAT 4089-6.2007)
- Capital gains tax (CGT) schedule 2007 (NAT 3423-6.2007)
- Shares , units and similar investments
- Making choices and requesting extensions
- Company tax return 2007 (NAT 0656-6.2007)
- Consolidation reference manual
- Draft Taxation Ruling TR 2004/D25 - Income tax: capital gains: meaning of the words 'absolutely entitled to a CGT asset as against the trustee of a trust' as used in Parts 3-1 and 3-3 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
- Employee share schemes – Employees
- Employee share schemes – Rollover relief
- Capital assets and the 12 month rule
- Foreign exchange gains and losses
- Translation (conversion) rules
- Employee share schemes – Foreign income exemption for Australian residents and temporary residents
- Fund income tax and regulatory return 2007 (NAT 0658-6.2007)
- General value shifting regime – who it affects
- Guide to capital gains tax concessions for small business 2006-07 (NAT 8384)
- Guide to depreciating assets 2007 (NAT 1996-6.2007)
- General value shifting regime – Overview of provisions
- Personal investors guide to capital gains tax 2007 (NAT 4152-6.2007)
- Practice Statement Law Administration (General Administration) PS LA 2005/1 (GA) - Taxation of capital gains of a trust
- Practice Statement Law Administration (General Administration) PS LA 2006/1 (GA) - Calculating the cost base and reduced cost base of a CGT asset if a taxpayer does not have sufficient information to determine the amount of construction expenditure on the asset for the purpose of working out their entitlement to a deduction under Division 43 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
- Rental properties 2007 (NAT 1729-6.2007)
- Investments in a company in liquidation or administration
- Taxpack 2007
- Taxation Determination TD 2004/3 - Income tax: capital gains tax: does an asset 'pass' to a beneficiary of a deceased estate under section 128-20 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 if the beneficiary becomes absolutely entitled to the asset as against the trustee of the estate?
- Taxation Determination TD 2005/33: Does expenditure - which is a non-capital cost of ownership of a CGT asset - form part of the cost base of the asset, if it is a tax benefit in connection with a scheme to which the general anti-avoidance rules in Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 apply?
- Taxation Determination TD 2005/47 - Income tax: what do the words 'can deduct' mean in the context of those provisions in Division 110 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 which reduce the cost base or reduced cost base of a CGT asset by amounts you 'have deducted or can deduct', and is there a fixed point in time when this must be determined?
- Taxation Determination TD 2006/73 - Income tax: demergers: in reallocating the cost bases of ownership interests under a demerger, as required by subsection 125-80(2) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, is there more than one method that produces a reasonable apportionment?
- Taxation Determination TD 2007/2 - Income tax: should a taxpayer who has incurred a tax loss or made a net capital loss for an income year retain records relevant to the ascertainment of that loss only for the record retention period prescribed under income tax law?
- Taxation Ruling TR 92/3 - Income tax: whether profits on isolated transactions are income
- Taxation Ruling TR 95/35 - Income tax: capital gains: treatment of compensation receipts
- Taxation Ruling TR 2002/10 - Income tax: capital gains tax: assets register
- Taxation Ruling TR 2004/18 - Income tax: capital gains: application of CGT event K6 (about pre-CGT shares and pre-CGT trust interests) in section 104-230 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
- Taxation Ruling TR 2005/6 - Income tax: lease surrender receipts and payments
- Taxation Ruling TR 2005/9 - Income tax: record keeping - electronic records
- Taxation Ruling TR 2005/15 - Income tax: tax consequences of financial contracts for differences
- Taxation Ruling TR 2005/23: Income tax: Listed investment companies
- Taxation Ruling TR 2006/4 - Income tax: capital gains: meaning of the words 'the beneficiaries and terms of both trusts are the same' in paragraphs 104-55(5)(b) and 104-60(5)(b) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
- Taxation Ruling TR 2006/14 - Income tax: capital gains tax: consequences of creating life and remainder interests in property and of later events affecting those interests
- Trust tax return 2007 (NAT 0660-6.2007)
- You and your shares 2007 (NAT 2632-6.2007)
- Fact sheets for shareholders referred to in appendix 4