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INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 320.37

Non - assessable non - exempt income

  (1)   These amounts * derived by a * life insurance company are not assessable income and are not * exempt income:

  (a)   amounts of ordinary income and statutory income derived from * segregated exempt assets, being income that relates to the period during which the assets were segregated exempt assets;

  (b)   amounts of ordinary income and statutory income derived from the * disposal of units in a * pooled superannuation trust;

  (c)   if an * Australian/overseas fund or an * overseas fund established by the company derived foreign establishment amounts--the foreign resident proportion of the foreign establishment amounts;

  (d)   if the company is a * friendly society:

  (i)   amounts derived before 1   July 2001 that are exempt from income tax under section   50 - 1; and

  (ii)   amounts derived on or after 1   July 2001 but before 1   January 2003, that are attributable to * income bonds, * funeral policies or * sickness policies; and

  (iii)   amounts derived on or after 1   July 2001 but before 1   January 2003, that are attributable to * scholarship plans and would have been exempt from income tax under section   50 - 1 if they had been received before 1   July 2001; and

  (iv)   amounts derived on or after 1   January 2003 that are attributable to income bonds, funeral policies or * sickness policies, that were issued before 1   January 2003; and

  (v)   amounts derived on or after 1   January 2003 that are attributable to scholarship plans issued before 1   January 2003 and that would have been exempt from income tax if they had been received before 1   July 2001.

Note:   The effect of this section is modified when the life insurance business of a life insurance company is transferred to another life insurance company: see section   320 - 325.

  (1A)   For the purposes of paragraph   (1)(c), foreign establishment amounts for the * life insurance company means the total amount of assessable income that was * derived in the income year:

  (a)   in the course of the carrying on by the company of a business in a foreign country at or through a * permanent establishment of the company in that country; and

  (b)   from sources in that or any other foreign country; and

  (c)   from assets that:

  (i)   are attributable to the permanent establishment; and

  (ii)   are held to meet the liabilities under the * life insurance policies issued by the company at or through the permanent establishment.

  (2)   For the purposes of paragraph   (1)(c), the foreign resident proportion of the * foreign establishment amounts is the amount worked out using the formula:

Start formula Foreign establishment amounts times start fraction Foreign resident foreign establishment policy liabilities over All foreign establishment policy liabilities end fraction end formula

where:

"all foreign establishment policy liabilities" means the average value for the income year (as calculated by an * actuary) of the policy liabilities (as defined in the * Valuation Standard) for all * life insurance policies that:

  (a)   were included in the class of * life insurance business to which the company's * Australian/overseas fund or * overseas fund relates; and

  (b)   were issued by the company at or through the * permanent establishment to which the foreign establishment amounts relate.

"foreign resident foreign establishment policy liabilities" means the average value for the income year (as calculated by an * actuary) of the policy liabilities (as defined in the * Valuation Standard) for all * life insurance policies that:

  (a)   are * foreign resident life insurance policies; and

  (b)   were issued by the company at or through the * permanent establishment to which the foreign establishment amounts relate.


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