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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2016-2017-2018
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Income Tax Rates Amendment
(Sovereign Entities) Bill 2018
No. , 2018
(Treasury)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Income Tax Rates
Act 1986
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Income Tax Rates Amendment (Sovereign Entities) Bill 2018
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Income Tax Rates Act 1986
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No. , 2018
Income Tax Rates Amendment (Sovereign Entities) Bill 2018
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Income Tax Rates
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Act 1986
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the Income Tax Rates Amendment (Sovereign Entities)
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Act 2018.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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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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Income Tax Rates Amendment (Sovereign Entities) Bill 2018
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
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 4 to the
Treasury Laws Amendment (Making Sure
Foreign Investors Pay Their Fair Share of
Tax in Australia and Other Measures) Act
2018 commences.
However, the provisions do not commence
at all if that Schedule does not commence.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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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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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Income Tax Rates Act 1986
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1 Subsection 3(1)
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Insert:
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sovereign entity has the same meaning as in the Income Tax
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Assessment Act 1997.
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2 Part III (heading)
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Omit "and certain other trusts", substitute ", certain other trusts and
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sovereign entities".
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3 After section 29
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Insert:
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30 Rate of tax payable by sovereign entities
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The rate of tax payable in respect of the taxable income of a
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sovereign entity is 30%, unless another provision of this Part sets
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the rate of tax in respect of that taxable income.
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