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INCOME TAX RATES AMENDMENT (TEMPORARY BUDGET REPAIR LEVY) BILL 2014

 

 

 

2013-2014 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

Income Tax Rates Amendment 

(Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 

2014 

 

No.      , 2014 

 

(Treasury) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Income Tax Rates 

Act 1986, and for related purposes 

   

   

 

 

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Income Tax Rates Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 

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Contents 

Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

Schedule(s) ........................................................................................ 2

 

Schedule 1--Temporary budget repair levy

 

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Income Tax Rates Act 1986

 

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Income Tax Rates Amendment (Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Bill 

2014 

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A Bill for an Act to amend the Income Tax Rates 

Act 1986, and for related purposes 

The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

1  Short title 

 

  This Act may be cited as the Income Tax Rates Amendment 

(Temporary Budget Repair Levy) Act 2014

2  Commencement 

 

(1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table 

commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with 

column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Commencement information 

Column 1 

Column 2 

Column 3 

Provision(s) 

Commencement 

Date/Details 

1.  Sections 1 to 3 

and anything in 

this Act not 

elsewhere covered 

by this table 

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 

 

2.  Schedule 1 

At the same time as Schedule 1 to the Tax 

Laws Amendment (Temporary Budget 

Repair Levy) Act 2014 commences. 

 

Note: 

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally 

enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of 

this Act. 

 

(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. 

Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it 

may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 

3  Schedule(s) 

 

  Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or 

repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 

concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Temporary budget repair levy  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Schedule 1

--Temporary budget repair levy 

   

Income Tax Rates Act 1986 

1  After Part III 

Insert: 

Part IV--Temporary budget repair levy 

   

32  Interpretation 

 

  In this Part: 

temporary budget repair levy year means a year of income 

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corresponding to a temporary budget repair levy year (within the 

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meaning of section 4-11 of the Income Tax (Transitional 

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Provisions) Act 1997). 

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33  Application 

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  This Part applies in relation to the temporary budget repair levy 

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years. 

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34  Extra income tax for temporary budget repair levy 

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  The rate of extra income tax payable as mentioned in section 4-11 

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of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 (temporary 

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budget repair levy) for a financial year on a taxpayer's taxable 

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income for the corresponding year of income is the rate applicable 

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under the table. 

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Rate of temporary budget repair levy 

Item 

Column 1 

For the part of the taxable income of the taxpayer 

that: 

Column 2 

The rate is: 

exceeds $180,000 

2% 

Schedule 1  Temporary budget repair levy 

   

 

 

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35  Temporary budget repair levy for other income tax rates 

References to 45% 

 

(1)  The provisions of this Act set out in column 1 of the table apply as 

if each reference in the provision to 45% was increased by 2 

percentage points. 

 

Provisions containing references to 45% 

Item 

Column 1 

Provision 

Column 2 

Topic of provision 

Subsection 12(7) 

Rate for subsection 94(9) of the Assessment Act 

Subsection 12(8) 

Rate for subsections 94(11) and (12) of the 

Assessment Act 

Subsection 12(9) 

Rate for section 99A of the Assessment Act 

Paragraph 26(1)(b) 

Rate for superannuation funds with non-arm's length 

component 

Subsection 26(2) 

Rate for non-complying superannuation funds 

Paragraph 27(1)(b) 

Rate for complying ADFs with non-arm's length 

component 

Subsection 27(2) 

Rate for non-complying ADFs 

Subsection 27A(b) 

Rate for pooled superannuation trusts with non-arm's 

length component 

 

Note: 

Some provisions, such as the Schedules, are excluded from this list so 

as not to duplicate the operation of the levy. 

References to maximum rate 

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(2)  The following provisions of this Act apply as if the maximum rate 

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specified as mentioned in the provision was increased by 2 

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percentage points: 

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(a)  paragraph 28(b) (rate for subsection 98(4) of the Assessment 

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Act); 

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(b)  paragraph 29(2)(a) (rate for no-TFN contributions income). 

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Note: 

This subsection does not cover references to the "highest rate" in 

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subsection 13(1) and 15(8), which are about phase-out limits. 

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Temporary budget repair levy  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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36  Rate where Division 6AA of Part III of the Assessment Act 

applies 

 

(1)  This section applies in respect of the following amounts: 

 

(a)  so much of the eligible taxable income of a resident taxpayer 

who is a prescribed person for the purposes of Division 6AA 

of Part III of the Assessment Act as exceeds $416 but does 

not exceed $180,000; 

 

(b)  so much of the eligible taxable income of a non-resident 

taxpayer who is a prescribed person for the purposes of that 

Division as does not exceed $180,000; 

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(c)  so much of a share of the net income of a trust estate in 

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respect of which the trustee is liable to be assessed and to pay 

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tax as: 

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(i)  is a share to which that Division applies; and 

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(ii)  does not exceed $180,000. 

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(2)  Increase by 2 percentage points the rate of tax that would, apart 

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from this section, apply to the amount. 

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37  Operation of this Part 

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  Nothing in the provisions of this Act (other than this Part) limits 

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the operation of this Part. 

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Note: 

This reflects the fact that temporary budget repair levy is extra income 

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tax. 

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