This part requires you to reconcile the entity's tax losses brought forward from the prior income year with those carried forward to later income years.
Do not include net capital losses or film losses at this item.
A Balance of tax losses brought forward from prior year
Write at A the undeducted and not transferred amount of tax losses incurred by the entity and brought forward to 2016–17 under section 36-15 or section 36-17 (as applicable) of the ITAA 1997.
B Uplift of tax losses of designated infrastructure project entities
A company or a fixed trust that is a designated infrastructure project (DIP) entity in an income year is able to uplift its unutilised tax losses before deducting them. The tax losses are uplifted by the income year’s long-term bond rate, which is the year’s average yield for 10-year non-rebate Australian Treasury bonds.
To be eligible for the uplift:
- the project that you are undertaking must be designated; and
- you must notify the Commissioner that you are a DIP entity.
If an entity is a DIP entity only for part of an income year in which the uplift occurs, the uplift is apportioned according to the number of days in the income year for which it was such an entity.
The tax losses will continue being uplifted in future income years until the entity either fully deducts them or stops being a DIP entity. An entity will cease to be a DIP entity and therefore not be able to uplift its tax losses when it stops carrying on the DIP or if it engages in activities that are not for the purpose of the DIP.
For more information, see Designated infrastructure project entities.
If the entity is a DIP entity, write at B the amount of the uplift of tax losses as determined under Division 415 of the ITAA 1997.
C Net forgiven amount of debt
Tax losses brought forward are reduced by any commercial debt forgiveness amounts (Division 245 of the ITAA 1997). If a commercial debt owed by the entity is forgiven during the income year, then you should apply the net forgiven amount to reduce the following attributes of the entity in the order listed:
- deductible revenue losses
- net capital losses
- certain undeducted revenue or capital expenditure, and then
- cost base of CGT assets.
Write at C the total net forgiven amount applied to reduce tax losses (if any) incurred in years of income before the forgiveness year of income.
D Tax loss incurred (if any) during current income year
Write at D the entity's tax loss for the year disregarding net exempt income and excess franking offsets.
There is a limit on the total of the amount you can deduct for the income year for gifts and contributions (section 26-55 of the ITAA 1997). A tax loss cannot be produced or increased by the deduction allowable under Division 30 of the ITAA 1997, which is about deductions for gifts or contributions.
E Tax loss amount from conversion of excess franking offsets
If the entity is a corporate tax entity and has excess franking offsets, it must convert the excess franking offsets into an amount of tax loss to carry forward to later income years. You convert the amount of excess franking offsets into a tax loss by dividing the excess franking offsets amount by the corporate tax rate, which gives you the tax loss amount. You record the amount of this tax loss at E.
F Net exempt income
Write at F the amount of net exempt income to be taken into account in calculating the entity's tax loss or carried forward tax loss.
You must first deduct a prior year tax loss from any net exempt income in the later income year.
G Tax losses forgone
On 1 March 2019, legislation received Royal Assent that will supplement the current 'same business test' for company loses with a more flexible 'similar business test'. The 'same business test' and the 'similar business test' are collectively referred to as the 'business continuity test'. For more information, see LCR 2019/1 The business continuity test - carrying on a similar business.
Write at G the amount of tax losses that have been forgone by the entity, that is, tax losses that will not be deducted in any later income year.
For example, a company cannot deduct a tax loss unless:
- it has the same owners and the same control throughout the period from the start of the loss year to the end of the income year, or
- it satisfies the business continuity test by carrying on the same or a similar business, and satisfies the four factors in subsection 165-211; see Subdivision 165-A and Subsection 165-211 of the ITAA 1997.
In addition, where all or part of a tax loss of a company is cancelled because the company has created exploration credits under Division 418 of the ITAA 1997 (the exploration development incentive), the amount of the tax loss that has been cancelled must be included in the amount at G.
H Tax losses deducted
Write at H tax losses deducted during the income year under section 36-15 or section 36-17 (as applicable) of the ITAA 1997.
I Tax losses transferred out under Subdivision 170-A
If the entity is a company, write at I the amount of tax losses transferred out by the company to group companies under Subdivision 170-A of the ITAA 1997.
J Total tax losses carried forward to later income years
Write at J the total of tax losses carried forward to later income years.