Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where, by reason of an amendment of an assessment, a person's liability to tax is reduced:
(a) the amount by which the tax is so reduced shall be taken, for the purposes of section 93, never to have been payable; and
(b) the Commissioner shall:
(i) refund the amount of any tax overpaid; or
(ii) apply the amount of any tax overpaid against any liability of the person to the Commonwealth and refund any part of the amount that is not so applied.
(2) In subsection (1), unless the contrary intention appears, tax includes additional tax under section 93.