Taxation Administration Act 1953
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Chapter 2 - Collection, recovery and administration of income taxNote: A Commissioner ' s Remedial Power modification is relevant to this part of the tax law.
Taxation Administration (Remedial Power - Seasonal Labour Mobility Program) Determination 2020 (F2020L01474) modifies the operation of s 840-905(b)(ii) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA 1997) and s 12-319A(b)(ii) of Sch 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 (TAA 1953) to include foreign resident employees of Approved Employers under the Seasonal Labour Mobility Program ( " employees under the Program " ) who previously held a Temporary Work (International Relations) Visa (subclass 403) and have extended their stay in Australia using a different temporary visa (including a bridging visa) granted under the Migration Act 1958 .
The operation of the relevant provisions is modified as follows:
For the purposes of s 370-5 in Sch 1 to TAA 1953, s 840-905(b)(ii) of ITAA 1997 operates with the following modification:
For the purposes of s 370-5 in Sch 1 to TAA 1953, s 12-319A(b)(ii) of Sch 1 to TAA 1953 operates with the following modification:
The modification applies to salary, wages, commissions, bonuses or allowances paid on and after 24 March 2020. The modification ensures that employees under the Program continue to be taxed by application of a final withholding tax rate of 15%. It also ensures that this income is otherwise treated as non-assessable non-exempt income. As is currently the case for those holding a Temporary Work (International Relations) Visa (subclass 403), these employees under the Program will not have to lodge an income tax return unless they earn other Australian sourced income.
An entity must treat a modification as not applying to it or any other entity if the modification would produce a less favourable result for it. The Commissioner is empowered by s 370-5 of Sch 1 to TAA 1953 to make modifications, by legislative instrument, to ensure the law is administered to achieve its intended purpose or object.
This section applies if:
(a) at the end of an income year of a trust, a beneficiary of the trust is presently entitled, for the purposes of Division 6 of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 , to a share of the income of the trust of that year; and
(b) paragraph 12-175(1)(c) in this Schedule applies to the trustee of the trust; and
(c) paragraph 12-175(1)(d) applies to the beneficiary. Trustee must withhold 12-180(2)
The trustee must withhold an amount from that share of the *net income of the trust, if:
(a) the beneficiary did not *quote the beneficiary ' s *tax file number to the trustee before the end of the year; and
(b) the trustee is not liable to pay tax in respect of that share under section 98 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 ; and
(c) the trustee is not required to make a correct TB statement about that share under Division 6D of Part III of that Act (about trustee beneficiary non-disclosure tax); and
(d) family trust distribution tax is not payable on that share of the income of the trust under Schedule 2F to that Act.
Note 1:
If the trust is a unit trust, the trustee may be required to withhold under section 12-145 in priority to this section: see section 12-5 .
Note 2:
The trustee commits an offence if the trustee fails to withhold an amount as required by this section: see section 16-25 .
Application of rest of Part 12-180(3)This Part (other than section 12-175 ) applies as if the trustee had paid that share of the *net income of the trust to the beneficiary at the end of the income year. Entitlements already paid 12-180(4)
Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to that share of the *net income of the trust to the extent that the trustee distributed any of that share to the beneficiary during the income year.
Note:
The trustee may have been required to withhold from that distribution under section 12-175 .
Trusts that end during the year 12-180(5)This section applies as if each reference to the end of an income year were a reference to the time occurring just before the trust ends, if the trust ends during the income year.
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