Tax Laws Amendment (Repeal of Inoperative Provisions) Act 2006 (101 of 2006)

Schedule 2   Consequential amendments relating to Schedule 1 repeals etc.

Part 1   Amendments: general

Taxation Administration Act 1953

949   Section 12-150 in Schedule 1

Repeal the section, substitute:

12-150 Limited application of section 12-140 to payment under financial arrangement

(1) This section limits the extent to which section 12-140 applies to a payment in respect of a *Part VA investment if the investment is a qualifying security (within the meaning of Division 16E of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (about gains accruing on securities)) and:

(a) is of a kind mentioned in item 1 or 2 of the table in subsection 202D(1) of that Act; or

(b) is of a kind mentioned in item 3 of that table and is non-transferable.

Note: Section 202D of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 lists the investments in connection with which tax file numbers are to be quoted.

(2) Section 12-140 applies to the payment only to the extent that is covered by one or both of these paragraphs:

(a) so much of the payment as consists of periodic interest (within the meaning of Division 16E of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936);

(b) if the payment became payable at the end of the term (within the meaning of that Division) of the investment - so much of the payment as does not exceed what section 159GQ of that Act would include in the *investor's assessable income for the income year in which that term ended.

Note: This limitation ensures that an amount is not withheld from payment of an amount in respect of which TFN withholding tax is payable. See Subdivision 14-B.

(3) The adoption (under section 18 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936) of an accounting period ending on a day other than 30 June is disregarded for the purposes of:

(a) paragraph (2)(b) of this section; and

(b) the application of Division 16E of Part III of that Act for the purposes of that paragraph.