Consolidation Reference Manual

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C2 Assets

C2-3 Worksheets

C2-3-110 Entry ACA worksheet

This worksheet can be used where an entity joins a consolidated group and the cost setting rules apply.

Step 1: Add up the cost of each membership interest • - section 705-65, Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA 1997)

• A non-membership equity interest in the joining entity held by a member of the joined group is treated as a membership interest for the purposes of step 1 of the ACA.

Step 2: Add accounting liabilities and other things

Step 3: Add undistributed profits accrued to the group (section 705-90, ITAA 1997)

Step 3A: Adjust for prior CGT rollovers from a foreign-resident company or a company that became the head company (sections 705-93, 705-147 & 705-227, ITAA 1997)

Adjustment to result after step 3A: adjust for prior CGT rollovers (section 705-150, ITAA 1997)

Step 4: Subtract certain distributions and certain undistributed profits (section 705-95, ITAA 1997)

Step 5: Subtract unused losses that accrued to the group (section 705-100, ITAA 1997)

Step 6: Subtract for tax benefit from transferred losses not accrued to group (section 705-110, ITAA 1997)

Step 7: Subtract inherited deductions (section 705-2215, ITAA 1997)

Step 8: Entry ACA result (section 705-60, ITAA 1997)

History

Revision History

Section C2-3-110 first published 2 December 2002 and updated 28 May 2003.

Further revisions are described below.

Date Amendment Reason
14.7.04 Note on recent and proposed changes to consolidation rules, p. 2. Recent and proposed legislative amendments.
26.10.05 Change to step 3 and update of note on foreign loss of a partnership, p. 3. Legislative amendment.
30.6.09 Removal of note at step 6 to reflect new rules for treatment of foreign losses. Legislative amendments.
6.5.11 Change to include market value of ADI restructure preference shares in step 2.
Removal of table for adjustments to the result of step 3A following the repeal of section 705-150.
Reference to non-membership equity interests at step 1 and step 2.
Revisions to reflect changes to the transitional concession for substituted accounting periods (former subsection 701-30(1) of the IT(TP)A 1997).
Legislative amendments.

Current at 6 May 2011