Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No. 5) Act 2008 (145 of 2008)

Schedule 1   Goods and services tax and real property

A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

9   After section 75-15

Insert:

75-16 Margins for supplies of real property acquired through several acquisitions

(1) If:

(a) you make a *taxable supply of *real property under the *margin scheme; and

(b) the interest, unit or lease in question is one that you acquired through 2 or more acquisitions ( partial acquisitions ); and

(c) one of the following provisions (a margin provision ) applies in relation to such a partial acquisition, or would so apply if the partial acquisition had been an acquisition of the whole of the interest, unit or lease:

(i) section 75-10;

(ii) subsection 75-11(1), (2), (2A), (2B), (3), (4), (5), (6) or (7);

the margin provision applies, in working out the margin for the supply you make, only to the extent that the supply is connected to the partial acquisition.

(2) The application of a margin provision in relation to one of the partial acquisitions does not prevent that margin provision or a different margin provision applying in relation to another of the partial acquisitions.