Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FUEL TAX ACT 2006 - SECT 75.10

  (1)   An entity gets a fuel tax benefit from a * scheme if:

  (a)   an * amount that is payable by the entity under this Act apart from this Division is, or could reasonably be expected to be, smaller than it would be apart from the scheme or a part of the scheme; or

  (b)   an amount that is payable to the entity under this Act apart from this Division is, or could reasonably be expected to be, larger than it would be apart from the scheme or a part of the scheme; or

  (c)   all or part of an amount that is payable by the entity under this Act apart from this Division is, or could reasonably be expected to be, payable later than it would have been apart from the scheme or a part of the scheme; or

  (d)   all or part of an amount that is payable to the entity under this Act apart from this Division is, or could reasonably be expected to be, payable earlier than it would have been apart from the scheme or a part of the scheme.

Fuel tax benefit can arise even if no economic alternative

  (2)   An entity can get a * fuel tax benefit from a * scheme even if the entity or entities that entered into or carried out the scheme, or a part of the scheme, could not have engaged economically in any activities:

  (a)   of the kind to which this Act applies; and

  (b)   that would produce an effect equivalent (except in terms of this Act) to the effect of the scheme or part of the scheme;

other than the activities involved in entering into or carrying out the scheme or part of the scheme.