Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

CHAPTER 3 - SPECIALIST LIABILITY RULES  

PART 3-30 - SUPERANNUATION  

Division 294 - Transfer balance cap  

Subdivision 294-C - Transfer balance debits  

Operative provisions

SECTION 294-90   Payment splits  

294-90(1)  
A *transfer balance debit arises in your *transfer balance account if:

(a) subsection (2) provides that the debit arises; and

(b) the Commissioner is notified in the *approved form that the debit has arisen. Payment splits

294-90(2)  
A debit arises if:

(a) a *superannuation interest is subject to a *payment split but remains an interest of the *member spouse; and

(b) the superannuation interest supports a *superannuation income stream that is in the *retirement phase; and

(c) as a result of the payment split, a proportion of all *superannuation income stream benefits from the income stream is to be paid to a *non-member spouse; and

(d) as a result, the member spouse and the non-member spouse are both *retirement phase recipients of the superannuation income stream.

294-90(3)  
The amount of the debit is:

(a) if you are the *member spouse - the proportion mentioned in paragraph (2)(c); and

(b) if you are the *non-member spouse - the remaining proportion;

of the *value, on the day the debit arises, of the *superannuation interest that supports the *superannuation income stream affected by the *payment split.

294-90(4)  
The debit arises at the later of:

(a) the operative time (within the meaning of Part VIIIB of the Family Law Act 1975 ) for the *payment split; and

(b) at the start of the day you first start to have a *transfer balance account.