Taxation Determination
TD 94/79
Income tax: capital gains: if a post-CGT asset bequeathed to a legal personal representative/beneficiary (LPR/B) is disposed of within 12 months of the LPR/B's acquisition, in which circumstances is indexation available?
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Disposal after more than 12 months from deceased's acquisition
1. If the LPR/B disposes of the asset within 12 months of the LPR/B's acquisition but after more than 12 months from when the deceased acquired the asset, the benefits of indexation are available to the LPR/B.
2. In these circumstances, the deemed consideration on acquisition by the LPR/B equals the amount that would have been the indexed cost base to the deceased at the date of death (subparagraph 160X(5)(b)(i) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 ).
3. On a later disposal of the asset by the LPR/B, the LPR/B can, by virtue of subsection 160Z(4), index his/her cost base (i.e. the deemed consideration on acquisition). Subsection 160Z(4) alters, in effect, the subsection 160Z(3) reference date, for the purposes of determining whether or not to use the cost base or indexed cost base, to the time the asset was acquired by the deceased .
4. The combined effect of subparagraph 160X(5)(b)(i) and subsection 160Z(4) is that the LPR/B can receive the benefits of indexation from the time of the original acquisition of the asset by the deceased.
Disposal within 12 months of deceased's acquisition
5. If the LPR/B disposes of the asset within 12 months of the LPR/B's acquisition and within 12 months of the deceased's acquisition, the LPR/B is denied any benefits of indexation.
6. In these circumstances, the deemed consideration on acquisition by the LPR/B equals the amount that would have been the cost base to the deceased at the date of death (subsection 160X(6)).
7. On a later disposal of the asset by the LPR/B, the LPR/B cannot index his/her cost base (i.e. the deemed consideration on acquisition) because, for the purposes of subsection 160Z(3) as altered by subsection 160Z(4), the disposal occurs within 12 months of the deceased's acquisition.
Example 1
1 February 91 31 August 91 30 March 92 ------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------- Asset acquired by A for $1,000,000 A dies and bequeaths asset to LPR/B Asset disposed of by LPR/B for $2,000,000
As disposal by the LPR/B occurs more than 12 months after the time of the original acquisition by the deceased, the LPR/B effectively receives the benefit of indexation from the date the asset was originally acquired by the deceased. Therefore, both the deemed consideration on acquisition and the cost base on disposal is indexed. Accordingly, the capital gain resulting from this example is as follows:
Asset acquired by LPR/B on 31 August 1991 (paragraph 160 X(5)(b))
Deemed consideration on acquisition by LPR/B:(using the 'new series' of index numbers),
$1,000,000 * 1.008[i.e.106.6/105.8]
= $1,008,000Indexed cost base on disposal by LPR/B
$1,008,000 * 1.009 [i.e.107.6/106.6.]
= $1,017,072Consideration on disposal $2,000,000 Indexed cost base $1,017,072 Capital Gain $ 982,928
Example 2
1 February 91 31 August 91 30 January 92 ------------------- ---------------------- ---------------------- Asset acquired by A for $1,000,000 A dies and bequeaths asset to LPR/B Asset disposed of by LPR/B for $2,000,000
On disposal of the asset on 30 January 92, the LPR/B does not receive any benefit of indexation in determining the deemed consideration on acquisition and the cost base on disposal. This is because the time of disposal by the LPR/B occurs within 12 months of the time of the original acquisition by the deceased. Consequently, the LPR/B is assessable on the capital gain of $1,000,000.
Commissioner of Taxation
15/9/94
Previously issued as Draft TD 93/D289
References
ATO references:
NO MPS 2001/1 (CGTDET79)
Related Rulings/Determinations:
TD 94/75
Subject References:
beneficiary;
capital gain;
consideration;
cost base;
death;
indexed cost base
Legislative References:
ITAA 160X(5)(b);
ITAA 160X(5)(b)(i);
ITAA 160X(6);
ITAA 160Z;
ITAA 160Z(3);
ITAA 160Z(4)
| Date: | Version: | Change: | |
| 15 September 1994 | Original ruling | ||
| You are here | 29 November 2006 | Original ruling + note | Repeal provision note |
| 27 June 2018 | Withdrawn |