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INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 115.115

Foreign or temporary residents--percentage for individuals

  (1)   This section applies if section   115 - 105 or 115 - 110 applies to a * discount capital gain.

Periods starting after 8   May 2012

  (2)   If the discount testing period starts after 8   May 2012, the following (expressed as a percentage) is the percentage resulting from this section:

    Start formula start fraction Number of days during discount testing period that you were an Australian resident (but not a *temporary resident) over 2 times Number of days in discount testing period end fraction end formula

Note 1:   The percentage will be 0% if you were a foreign resident or temporary resident during all of the discount testing period.

Note 2:   Subsection   115 - 105(3) or 115 - 110(3) may change your residency status for this formula.

Periods starting earlier--Australian residents

  (3)   If:

  (a)   the discount testing period starts on or before 8   May 2012; and

  (b)   you were an Australian resident (but not a * temporary resident) on 8   May 2012;

the following (expressed as a percentage) is the percentage resulting from this section:

Start formula start fraction Number of days in discount testing period minus Number of apportionable days that you were a foreign resident or *temporary resident over 2 times Number of days in discount testing period end fraction end formula

where:

"apportionable day" means a day, after 8   May 2012, during the discount testing period.

Note:   Subsection   115 - 105(3) or 115 - 110(3) may change your residency status for this formula.

Periods starting earlier--other residents may choose market value

  (4)   The percentage resulting from this section is worked out from the following table if:

  (a)   the discount testing period starts on or before 8   May 2012; and

  (b)   you were a foreign resident or * temporary resident on 8   May 2012; and

  (c)   the most recent * acquisition (before the * CGT event) of the * CGT asset happened on or before 8   May 2012; and

  (d)   the CGT asset's * market value on 8   May 2012 exceeds the amount that was its * cost base at the end of that day; and

  (e)   you choose for this subsection to apply.

Note 1:   The CGT event and CGT asset are those expressly or impliedly referred to in section   115 - 105 or 115 - 110.

Note 2:   Section   115 - 30 has special rules about when assets are acquired.

 

Percentage using market value

Item

Column 1

If the excess from paragraph   (d):

Column 2

then, the percentage is:

1

is equal to or greater than the amount of the * discount capital gain

50%.

2

falls short of the amount of the * discount capital gain

worked out under subsection   (5).

  (5)   For the purposes of table item   2 in subsection   (4), the following (expressed as a percentage) is the percentage resulting from this section:

    Start formula start fraction Excess plus open bracket start fraction Shortfall times Number of apportionable days that you were an eligible resident over Number of apportionable days end fraction close bracket over 2 times Amount of the *discount capital gain end fraction end formula

where:

"apportionable day" means a day, after 8   May 2012, during the discount testing period.

"eligible resident" means an Australian resident who is not a * temporary resident.

"excess" means the excess from paragraph   (4)(d).

"shortfall" means the amount that the excess falls short of the amount of the * discount capital gain.

Note:   Subsection   115 - 105(3) or 115 - 110(3) may change your residency status for this formula.

Periods starting earlier--other residents not choosing market value

  (6)   If:

  (a)   the discount testing period starts on or before 8   May 2012; and

  (b)   you were a foreign resident or * temporary resident on 8   May 2012; and

  (c)   subsection   (4) does not apply;

the following (expressed as a percentage) is the percentage resulting from this section:

Start formula start fraction Number of apportionable days that you were an Australian resident (but not a *temporary resident) over 2 times Number of days in discount testing period end fraction end formula

where:

"apportionable day" means a day, after 8   May 2012, during the discount testing period.

Note 1:   The percentage will be 0% if you were a foreign resident or temporary resident on each of the apportionable days.

Note 2:   Subsection   115 - 105(3) or 115 - 110(3) may change your residency status for this formula.


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