We may have already pre-printed some of your organisation's details on your application form. Notify us in writing if any of these details are incorrect.
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If you need help filling out the application form, phone us on 1300 130 248.
Name of organisation
Make sure the name of the organisation provided is your organisation's full legal name. If your organisation's name has changed, send written advice of the change to:
Australian Taxation Office
PO Box 3373
PENRITH NSW 2740
Postal address
Make sure the postal address provided is your organisation's address for the service of notices. If the address is incorrect, provide the correct address for service of notices in the space provided on the form.
Important changes
Recent changes to the tax law mean your organisation now has objection rights and time limits in which to amend its claims for tax offset refunds (here being a refund of franking credits). These changes apply to franking credits attached to dividend income and to the entitlement to franked distributions for the year ended 30 June 2014 onwards.
The changes also mean your claim for (or an amendment of) a refund of franking credits will be subject to an income tax assessment.
Notices of assessment
If you are a:
- trust or a government entity, we will issue you with a notice of assessment;
- company, a notice of assessment will be deemed at the time you lodge this form.
If an amendment is made to an original assessment, we will issue you with a notice of amended assessment.
The notices will include the following information:
- the amount of your organisation’s taxable or net income (or that the amount is zero)
- the amount of the tax payable on that taxable or net income (or that the amount is zero)
- the total of your organisation’s tax offset refunds (or that the amount is zero).
There are time limits for requesting an amendment to an assessment. We cannot amend an assessment if the time limit has passed.
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Application form changes
The following changes have been made to the application form as a result of tax offset refunds being brought into the assessment regime:
- Label B now specifies that your total of franking credits is your tax offset refunds amount.
- New label C has been added, in which you are required to you add the amounts at label A and label B. If you do not complete this label correctly, it may take longer for us to process your refund.
- New label D has been added to show your taxable or net income. You must be income tax exempt or an income tax exempt deductible gift recipient to be eligible to complete this form, so we have prefilled the new label D with ‘00’.
- New label E has been added to show your tax payable. You must be income tax exempt or an income tax exempt deductible gift recipient to be eligible to complete this form, so we have prefilled the new label E with ‘00’.
Preventing dividend washing
In the 2013-14 Federal Budget, the government announced its intention to prevent dividend washing by inserting a specific integrity rule into the tax law applicable from 1 July 2013. Dividend washing is when two sets of franking credits are claimed by selling and then effectively repurchasing the same parcel of shares using a special Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) market.
At the time of publication these changes had not become law.
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Franked dividend, trust distribution and franking credit details
To complete this section, you will need:
- dividend statements for dividends paid to your organisation from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014
- distribution statements from fund managers and trustees provided to your organisation for distribution entitlements for the income year ended 30 June 2014.
At label A, provide the total of the following:
- franked amounts from dividend statements, including those amounts paid from a New Zealand company - if you were paid a dividend from the New Zealand company with an attached Australian franking credit.
- franked distribution amounts from distribution statements from a trust or managed fund.
Do not include the amount of any franking credit at label A.
In particular, if the amount of your distribution from a trust or managed fund includes the amount of any franking credit in the distribution amount, the amount to be included at label A must be reduced by the franking credit amount.
At label B, provide the total franking credits attached to the following:
- dividends, including Australian franking credits attached to dividends paid from a New Zealand company
- franking credits included in distribution statements from trusts and managed funds.
At label C, add the amounts at label A and label B.
At label D, provide taxable or net income.
At label E, provide Tax payable.
You must be income tax exempt or an income tax exempt deductible gift recipient to be eligible to complete this form, so we have prefilled the new labels D and E with ‘00’. If you have any taxable net income or tax payable you are not eligible to use this form.
Do not include any New Zealand franking credits.
If the New Zealand company that paid the dividend has not specified that the franking credit is Australian, you should contact the company to work out if it is an Australian or New Zealand franking credit. In most cases, if it is not specified as Australian, it will be a New Zealand franking credit.
Next step:
An example of how to complete the labels is included on the back of the application form.
Do not show cents at any label.
You should keep dividend and distribution statements provided to your organisation. Do not send them to us with your application form unless we ask you to.
Electronic funds transfer (EFT)
If you complete the EFT details on the application form your organisation will have its refund paid directly to its Australian financial institution account. If you do not complete the EFT details, your organisation will receive a refund cheque in the mail.
Direct refund
We need your financial institution details to pay any refund owing to you, even if you have provided them to us before.
Complete the following:
- bank state branch (BSB) number – this six-digit number identifies the financial institution (do not include spaces or hyphens)
- account number – this should not have more than nine characters (do not include spaces)
- account name – in most cases, your account name should be shown on your bank account records. It should include spaces between each word and between initials. If your account name exceeds 32 characters, provide the first 32 characters only.
To ask about the progress of your organisation's refund, phone us on 1300 130 248.
Privacy
Taxation law authorises the ATO to collect information including personal information about the person authorised to sign the declaration.
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Declaration
The declaration must be read, signed and dated (after completion of the application) by the authorised person for the organisation. Such a person might include:
- the trustee of the trust
- an office holder of the association or organisation
- a director of the company
- the company secretary
- the public officer of the company.
Incomplete declaration details may delay the processing of your organisation's application.