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INCOME TAX RATES ACT 1986 - SECT 3

Interpretation

  (1)   In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

"abnormal income amount" , in relation to the taxable income of a taxpayer of a year of income, means any above - average special professional income included in the taxpayer's taxable income for the year of income under section   405 - 15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"ADI" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"AMIT" (short for attribution managed investment trust) has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"Assessment Act" means the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 .

"attribution managed investment trust" : see AMIT .

"base rate entity" has the meaning given by section   23AA.

"base rate entity passive income" has the meaning given by section   23AB.

"complying ADF" means a complying approved deposit fund as defined in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"complying superannuation class" of the taxable income of a life insurance company has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"complying superannuation fund" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"determined member component" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"eligible ADF" means a fund that is a complying approved deposit fund or a non - complying approved deposit fund, as defined in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"eligible part" , in relation to the special income component of the taxable income of a taxpayer, means so much of the special income component as is eligible taxable income for the purposes of Division   6AA of Part   III of the Assessment Act.

"eligible superannuation fund" means a fund that is a complying superannuation fund or a non - complying superannuation fund, as defined in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"employment termination remainder" of taxable income means so much of the taxable income as:

  (a)   is included in assessable income under a maximum tax rate provision in Division   82 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 or Division   82 of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 ; and

  (b)   does not give rise to an entitlement to a tax offset under that maximum tax rate provision.

"friendly society" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"life insurance company" has the same meaning as in the Life Insurance Act 1995 .

"low tax component" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"managed investment trust" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"maximum tax rate provision" means any of the following provisions:

  (a)   section   82 - 10 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ;

  (b)   section   82 - 65 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ;

  (c)   section   82 - 70 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ;

  (d)   section   301 - 95 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ;

  (e)   section   301 - 105 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ;

  (f)   section   301 - 115 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ;

  (g)   section   82 - 10A of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 ;

  (h)   section   82 - 10C of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 .

"net income phase-out limit" has the meaning given by subsection   14(3).

"non-arm's length component" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"non-complying ADF" means a fund that, at all times during the year of income when the fund is in existence, is an approved deposit fund within the meaning of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 , but does not include a fund that is a complying ADF.

"non-complying superannuation fund" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"non-profit company" means:

  (a)   a company that is not carried on for the purposes of profit or gain to its individual members and is, by the terms of the company's constituent document, prohibited from making any distribution, whether in money, property or otherwise, to its members; or

  (b)   a friendly society dispensary.

"non-resident beneficiary" , in relation to a year of income, means a beneficiary of a trust estate who is a prescribed non - resident in relation to that year of income.

"non-resident phase-out limit" has the meaning given by subsection   15(8).

"non-resident taxpayer" , in relation to a year of income, means a taxpayer who is a prescribed non - resident in relation to that year of income.

"non-resident trust estate" , in relation to a year of income, means a trust estate that is not a resident trust estate in relation to that year of income.

"no-TFN contributions income" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"ordinary class" of the taxable income of a life insurance company has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"ordinary taxable income" means the taxable income, reduced by the superannuation remainder of the taxable income and by the employment termination remainder of the taxable income.

"PDF" (pooled development fund) has the same meaning as in the Assessment Act.

"PDF component" has the same meaning as in the Assessment Act.

"pooled superannuation trust" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"prescribed non-resident" , in relation to a year of income, means a person who, at all times during the year of income, is a non - resident, not being a person to whom, at any time during the year of income, compensation or a pension, allowance or benefit is payable under:

  (a)   the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 ;

  (b)   subsection   4(6) of the Veterans' Entitlements (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 1986 ; or

  (ba)   the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 ; or

  (c)   the Social Security Act 1991 ;

being compensation or a pension, allowance or benefit in respect of which the person is liable to be assessed and to pay income tax in Australia.

"prescribed unit trust" , in relation to a year of income, means a trust estate that is a public trading trust in relation to the year of income.

"public trading trust" , in relation to a year of income, means a unit trust that is a public trading trust, within the meaning of Division   6C of Part   III of the Assessment Act, in relation to the year of income.

"reduced taxable income" means the part (if any) of the taxable income other than the special income component.

"resident beneficiary" , in relation to a year of income, means a beneficiary of a trust estate who is not a prescribed non - resident in relation to that year of income.

"resident phase-out limit" has the meaning given by subsection   13(10).

"resident taxpayer" , in relation to a year of income, means a taxpayer who is not a prescribed non - resident in relation to that year of income.

"resident trust estate" , in relation to a year of income, means a trust estate that, under subsection   95(2) of the Assessment Act, is to be taken to be a resident trust estate in relation to that year of income.

"RSA component" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"second resident personal tax rate" means the rate mentioned in item   2 of the table in clause   1 of Part   I of Schedule   7 that is applicable to the year of income.

"SME income component" has the same meaning as in Subdivision   B of Division   10E of Part   III of the Assessment Act.

"sovereign entity" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"special income component" , in relation to a taxable income for which there is an abnormal income amount, means:

  (a)   so much of the taxable income as does not exceed the abnormal income amount; or

  (b)   if the sum (the component sum ) of:

  (i)   the abnormal income amount; and

  (ii)   the superannuation remainder of the taxable income; and

  (iii)   the employment termination remainder of the taxable income;

    is more than the taxable income--the abnormal income amount, reduced by the amount by which the component sum exceeds the taxable income.

"standard component" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"superannuation remainder" of taxable income means so much of the taxable income as:

  (a)   is included in assessable income under a maximum tax rate provision in Division   301 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ; and

  (b)   does not give rise to an entitlement to a tax offset under that maximum tax rate provision.

"tax" means income tax imposed as such by any Act other than income tax payable in accordance with section   121H, 126, 128B, 128N, 128NA, 128NB, 128T, 128V, 136A or 159C of the Assessment Act.

"tax-free threshold" means $18,200.

"tax offset" has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 .

"unregulated investment component" has the same meaning as in Subdivision   B of Division   10E of Part   III of the Assessment Act.

"working holiday maker" has the meaning given by subsection   3A(1).

"working holiday taxable income" has the meaning given by subsections   3A(2) and (3).

  (2)   In this Act:

  (a)   a reference to net income, taxable income or reduced taxable income shall be read as a reference to net income, taxable income or reduced taxable income, as the case may be, of the year of income; and

  (b)   a reference to eligible taxable income for the purposes of Division   6AA of Part   III of the Assessment Act shall be read as a reference to eligible taxable income of the year of income for the purposes of that Division.

  (3)   A reference in this Act to the part to which Division   6AA of Part   III of the Assessment Act applies of the share of a beneficiary of the net income of a trust estate shall, if that Division   applies to the whole of such a share, be read as a reference to the whole of that share.


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