Taxation Administration Act 1953

SCHEDULE 1 - COLLECTION AND RECOVERY OF INCOME TAX AND OTHER LIABILITIES  

Note: See section 3AA .

Chapter 2 - Collection, recovery and administration of income tax  

PART 2-5 - PAY AS YOU GO (PAYG) WITHHOLDING  

Division 12 - Payments from which amounts must be withheld  

Subdivision 12-H - Distributions of withholding MIT income  

Operative provisions

SECTION 12-385   WITHHOLDING BY WITHHOLDING MITs  

12-385(1)    


A trustee of a trust that is a *withholding MIT in relation to an income year that makes a *fund payment in relation to that income year to an entity covered by section 12-410 must withhold an amount from the payment.
Note 1:

An entity may be covered by section 12-410 if the entity has an address outside Australia or payment is authorised to be made to a place outside Australia.

Note 2:

If the payment is made to a recipient not covered by section 12-410 , the trustee is required to give a notice to the recipient or publish information on a website setting out certain details about the payment: see section 12-395 .


12-385(2)    
The amount the trustee must withhold is:


*Fund payment × Rate applicable under subsection (3)


12-385(3)    
The rate is:


(a) if the address or place for payment of the recipient is in an *information exchange country:


(i) 15% for *fund payments (except to the extent mentioned in subparagraph (ii) or (iii)); or

(ii) 10% for fund payments, to the extent that they are, or are attributable to, fund payments from a *clean building managed investment trust (except to the extent mentioned in subparagraph (iii)); or

(iii) 30% for fund payments, to the extent that they are attributable to *non-concessional MIT income (see section 12-435 ); or


(b) otherwise - 30%.


12-385(4)    
An information exchange country is a foreign country or foreign territory specified in the regulations for the purposes of this section.

12-385(5)    


This section does not apply to an amount paid by a *withholding MIT to the extent that no *managed investment trust withholding tax is payable in respect of the payment or an amount reasonably attributable to the payment.



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