New Business Tax System (Integrity and Other Measures) Act 1999 (Incorporating amendments up to Act No. 78 of 2001) (169 of 1999)

Schedule 8   Limiting indexation of cost bases of CGT assets

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

4   Section 114-1 (notes 1, 2 and 3)

Repeal the notes, substitute:

Note 1: Subdivision 960-M shows you how to index amounts. The indexation does not take account of inflation after 30 September 1999.

Note 2: You have to work out the cost base of a CGT asset if a CGT event happens in relation to it or if there is a cost base modification.

Note 3: You cannot index expenditure in the third element (non-capital costs of ownership): see subsection 960-275(4).

Note 4: Indexation is not relevant to expenditure incurred after 11.45 am on 21 September 1999 or any expenditure relating to a CGT asset acquired after that time.


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