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Question 5

Last updated 8 November 2011

In order to evaluate any potential compliance risks in respect of Australian taxpayers' dealings undertaken with related parties in specified countries, we need to understand the nature of these dealings. Therefore, we seek to identify the principal activities undertaken by Australian taxpayers and related parties in specified countries, where these activities are mainly undertaken and the extent/significance of these activities. This question seeks information on activities other than those dealt with in question 4.

This question also collects information about use of your property, services or any other benefit in your offshore branch operations where your attribution of your income or expenses in relation to the property, services or other benefit is internally recorded as a 'dealing' with your branch operations: refer to the Introduction of these instructions for more information. Accordingly, also treat the reference in this question to a 'party' as though it extended to:

  • offshore branch operations carried on by an Australian resident - treat such operations as though they were instead a separate 'party' located in the branch country
  • Australian branch operations carried on by a non-resident - treat such operations as though they were instead a separate 'party' located in Australia.

If you had related party dealings with entities in any of the specified countries during the income year, other than the dealings listed in question 4, answer yes to this question and complete the required fields.

Only dealings conducted on the taxpayer's own behalf need to be taken into account in the answer to this question. That is, dealings by a financial services entity on behalf of its clients are not to be included. For example, transactions with a related party in specified countries in respect of cash management services on behalf of your customers would not be a dealing included in the answer to this question.

The dollar amounts or values asked for this question are all based on your accounting records.

The amounts reported at this question may be reported in the financial statements as revenue/gains or expenses/losses, depending on the accounting treatment of the relevant item (for example, for dealings in derivatives, you may report revenue from net cash flows or you may report a gain in fair value). Therefore for the purposes of this question, the terms: 'expenditure and losses' and 'revenue and gains' are interchangeable.

To complete this question, you need to:

  • identify all your dealings with related parties located in specified countries during the income year
  • disregard all your related party dealings that were covered by question 4
  • group your remaining dealings according to activity type
  • determine the total dollar value of each activity type (expenses/losses plus revenue/gains, excluding principal and principal repayment amounts)
  • determine the three activity types with the highest dollar value of dealings
  • determine for each activity type identified in the first column the specified country where this activity type was principally undertaken
  • work out the expenditure/losses incurred and the revenue/gains earned (excluding principal and principal repayment amounts) in respect of the specified country identified in the second column in relation to the activity type identified in the first column.

In the first column at C, G and K, list the codes of the three activity types with the highest dollar values in respect of your dealings with related parties located in specified countries (excluding activities listed in question 4).

List these codes in descending order of total dollar value.

Further Information

For the list of activity types and codes, see Appendix 5.

End of further information

In the second column at D, H and L, provide the codes of the specified countries in respect of each of your activities identified in the first column that has the highest dollar value of those activities.

Further Information

For the list of specified country codes, see Appendix 2.

End of further information

In the third column at E, I and M, provide the total amount of expenditure/losses incurred (excluding principal and principal repayment amounts) in respect of each of your activity types identified in the first column in relation to the relevant specified country identified in the second column.

In the fourth column, at F, J and N, provide the total amount of revenue/gains earned (excluding principal and principal repayment amounts) in respect of each of your activity types identified in the first column in relation to the relevant specified country identified in the second column.

Example

During the income year an Australian taxpayer undertook the following dealings with entities located in specified countries.

Activity

Relation to taxpayer

Country entity located

Expenditure amounts

Revenue amounts

Total dollar values

Underwriting

Branch of subsidiary

Andorra

1,500,000

600,000

2,100,000

Derivatives

100% subsidiary

Andorra

3,190,000

4,220,000

7,410,000

Leasing

Branch of subsidiary

Andorra

4,280,000

1,770,000

6,050,000

Derivatives

na

Andorra

1,300,000

490,000

1,790,000

Underwriting

Branch of subsidiary

Belize

2,450,000

400,000

2,850,000

Derivatives

100% subsidiary

Belize

2,145,000

3,760,000

5,905,000

Leasing

Branch

Belize

3,000,000

1,600,000

4,600,000

Derivatives

100% subsidiary

Niue

600,000

500,000

1,100,000

Securitisation

100% subsidiary

Niue

6,000,000

8,500,000

14,500,000

Securitisation

100% subsidiary

Panama

900,000

450,000

1,350,000

Note: The expenditure incurred and revenue earned by the Australian taxpayer undertaking derivative transactions with unrelated parties in Andorra is disregarded in determining the total value of derivative transactions.

The Australian taxpayer extracts the relevant data from the information above.

Activity

Activity code

Total expenditure amount

Total revenue amount

Total dollar value

Derivatives

6

5,935,000

8,480,000

14,415,000

Leasing

10

7,280,000

3,370,000

10,650,000

Securitisation

12

6,900,000

8,950,000

15,850,000

Underwriting

15

3,950,000

1,000,000

4,950,000

The three main activity types undertaken by the Australian taxpayer and related parties located in specified countries are securitisation, derivatives and leasing.

With this information the Australian taxpayer completes question 5 as follows.

Example of question 5 completed

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