Tax Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Act 2015 (170 of 2015)

Schedule 1   Significant global entities

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

1   After subsection 960-50(7)

Insert:

(7A) Despite subsections (6) and (7), an amount that is relevant for the purposes of quantifying, for the purposes of section 960-565, the *annual global income of a *global parent entity as shown in *global financial statements for the entity is to be translated into Australian currency at the average exchange rate applicable for the period for which the statements are prepared.

(7B) For the purposes of subsection (7A):

(a) the entity must obtain:

(i) all of the exchange rates that it will use to work out the average exchange rate; or

(ii) an average exchange rate that has been worked out for the period referred to in that subsection;

from one or more sources that are not *associates of the entity, and not the entity itself, or from one or more sources specified by the Commissioner in a notice to the entity; and

(b) the entity must use the average exchange rate so worked out in translating into Australian currency any amount referred to in that subsection that is relevant to that period.

(7C) A notice under paragraph (7B)(a) is not a legislative instrument.