Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1936 - SECT 121ELA

Investment with OBU

  (1)   Income, derived by an overseas charitable institution, is exempt to the extent that it is:

  (a)   a payment or outgoing from an OBU as part of the OB activities of the OBU; or

  (b)   a distribution of income that is exempt under subsection   121EL(2).

Capital gains and losses

  (2)   If:

  (a)   an OBU is a trustee, or is the central manager and controller, of a unit trust estate; and

  (b)   the only person who benefits, or is capable (whether by the exercise of a power of appointment or otherwise) of benefiting, under the trust is an overseas charitable institution; and

  (c)   the terms of the trust are to the effect that income, profits or capital gains of the trust estate may only come from investment activities covered by subsection   121D(6B); and

  (d)   the overseas charitable institution disposes of its interest in the trust;

then the overseas charitable institution makes no capital gain or capital loss from a CGT event happening in relation to the disposal.