Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

CHAPTER 2 - LIABILITY RULES OF GENERAL APPLICATION  

PART 2-10 - CAPITAL ALLOWANCES: RULES ABOUT DEDUCTIBILITY OF CAPITAL EXPENDITURE  

Division 40 - Capital allowances  

Subdivision 40-D - Balancing adjustments  

Operative provisions

SECTION 40-305   Amount you are taken to have received under a balancing adjustment event  

40-305(1)    
This Division applies to you as if you had received, under a ^* balancing adjustment event, the greater of these amounts:

(a) the sum of the amounts you have deducted or can deduct, or has been or will be taken into account in working out an amount you can deduct because of the balancing adjustment event and any amount by which the amount so deductible was reduced because of a case described in the table in this subsection; and

(b) the sum of the applicable amounts set out in that table:

Amount you are taken to have received under a balancing adjustment event
Item	In this case:	The amount is:
1	You receive an amount	The amount
.
2	You terminate all or part of a liability to pay an amount	The amount of the liability or part when you terminate it
.
3	You are granted a right to receive an amount or an amount to which you are entitled is increased	The amount of the right or increase when it is granted or increased
.
4	You receive a *non-cash benefit	The *market value of the non-cash benefit when it is received
.
5	You terminate all or part of a liability to provide a *non-cash benefit	The *market value of the non-cash benefit or reduction in the non-cash benefit when the liability or part is terminated
.
6	You are granted a right to receive a *non-cash benefit or you become entitled to an increased non-cash benefit	The *market value of the non-cash benefit, or the increase, when it is granted or increased

Note 1:

Item 1 includes not only amounts actually received but also amounts taken to have been received. Examples include the price of the notional sale made when a depreciating asset is converted to trading stock under section 70-30 , the consideration for an asset held under a hire purchase arrangement under section 240-25 and a lessee ' s deemed consideration when a luxury car lease ends under subsection 242-90(3) .

Note 2:

Section 230-505 provides special rules for working out the amount of consideration for an asset if the asset is a Division 230 financial arrangement or a Division 230 financial arrangement is involved in that consideration.

40-305(2)    
In applying the table in subsection (1) to a right you have to receive an amount or a ^* non-cash benefit, don ' t count any part of the right that has already been satisfied.