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INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1936 - SECT 102AAB

Interpretation

    In this Division, unless the contrary intention appears:

"1 July 1990 net worth" , in relation to a trust estate, means the market value, as at the beginning of 1   July 1990, of the assets of the trust estate, reduced by the liabilities of the trust estate as at the beginning of that day.

"accounts" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"actual transfer" , in relation to property or services, means a transfer of the property or services other than a transfer that is taken to have been made because of subsection   102AAK(1), (2), (5), (6), (8), (10) or (11).

"arm's length amount" , in relation to an actual transfer of property or services to a trust estate, means the amount that the trustee could reasonably be expected to have been required to pay to obtain the property or the services concerned from the transferor under a transaction where the parties to the transaction are dealing with each other at arm's length in relation to the transaction.

"associate" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"attributable income" , in relation to a trust estate, has the meaning given by section   102AAU.

"attributable taxpayer" has the meaning given by section   102AAT.

"attribution account payment" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"attribution debit" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"Australian entity" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"Australian trust" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"base interest rate" for a day has the same meaning as in section   8AAD of the Taxation Administration Act 1953 .

"CFC" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"controlled foreign trust" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"de facto relationship" means:

  (a)   a relationship between 2 persons (whether of the same sex or different sexes) that is registered under a law of a State or Territory prescribed for the purposes of section   2E of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 as a kind of relationship prescribed for the purposes of that section; or

  (b)   a relationship between 2 persons (whether of the same sex or different sexes) who, although not legally married to each other, live with each other on a genuine domestic basis in a relationship as a couple.

"depreciation provision" means:

  (a)   any provision of Division   40 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (other than Subdivision   40 - E); or

  (b)   any provision of Division   43 of that Act.

"designated concession income" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"discretionary trust estate" means a trust estate where:

  (a)   both of the following conditions are satisfied:

  (i)   a person (who may include the trustee) is empowered (either unconditionally or on the fulfilment of a condition) to exercise any power of appointment or other discretion;

  (ii)   the exercise of the power or discretion, or the failure to exercise the power or discretion, has the effect of determining, to any extent, either or both of the following:

  (A)   the identities of those who may benefit under the trust;

  (B)   how beneficiaries are to benefit, as between themselves, under the trust; or

  (b)   one or more of the beneficiaries under the trust have a contingent or defeasible interest in some or all of the corpus or income of the trust estate; or

  (c)   the trustee of another trust estate, being a trust estate where both of the conditions in paragraph   (a) are satisfied, benefits, or is capable (whether by the exercise of a power of appointment or otherwise) of benefiting, under the first - mentioned trust estate.

"eligible designated concession income" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"entity" means any of the following:

  (a)   a company;

  (b)   a partnership;

  (c)   a person in the capacity of trustee;

  (d)   any other person.

"exempt income" , in relation to a trust estate, means the exempt income of the trust estate calculated as if the trustee were a taxpayer who was a resident.

"IP time" means 7.30 p.m., by standard time in the Australian Capital Territory, on 12   April 1989.

"listed country" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"listed country trust estate" has the meaning given by section   102AAE.

"net income" , in relation to a trust estate, in relation to a year of income, means:

  (b)   if the trust estate is a public trading trust in relation to the year of income--the net income (within the meaning of Division   6C) of the public trading trust of the year of income; or

  (c)   in any other case--the net income (within the meaning of Division   6) of the trust estate.

"non-attributable year of income" , in relation to a trust estate, means a non - resident year of income of the trust estate where no amount calculated by reference to the attributable income of the trust estate of that year of income is included in the assessable income of any taxpayer under subsection   102AAZD(1).

"non-discretionary trust estate" means a trust estate other than a discretionary trust estate.

"non-resident family trust" has the meaning given by section   102AAH.

"non-resident trust estate" (except in section   102AAA), in relation to a year of income, means a trust estate that is not a resident trust estate in relation to the year of income.

"non-resident year of income" , in relation to a trust estate, means a year of income in relation to which the trust estate is a non - resident trust estate.

"profits" includes gains, whether of an income or capital nature.

"property" includes money.

"public trading trust" , in relation to a year of income, means a unit trust that is a public trading trust in relation to the year of income for the purposes of Division   6C.

"public unit trust" has the meaning given by section   102AAF.

"resident trust estate" , in relation to a year of income, means:

  (a)   a resident trust estate in relation to the year of income within the meaning of Division   6; or

  (b)   a unit trust that is a public trading trust, in relation to the year of income; or

  (c)   a complying superannuation fund, a non - complying superannuation fund, a complying approved deposit fund, a non - complying approved deposit fund or a pooled superannuation trust in relation to the year of income.

"scheme" means:

  (a)   any agreement, arrangement, understanding, promise or undertaking, whether express or implied and whether or not enforceable, or intended to be enforceable, by legal proceedings; and

  (b)   any scheme, plan, proposal, action, course of action or course of conduct, whether there are 2 or more parties or only one party involved.

"services" includes any benefit, right (including a right in relation to, and an interest in, real or personal property), privilege or facility and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes a benefit, right, privilege, service or facility that is, or is to be, provided under:

  (a)   an arrangement for or in relation to:

  (i)   the performance of work (including work of a professional nature), whether with or without the provision of property; or

  (ii)   the provision of, or of the use of facilities for, entertainment, recreation or instruction; or

  (iii)   the conferring of benefits, rights or privileges for which remuneration is payable in the form of a royalty, tribute, levy or similar exaction; or

  (b)   a contract of insurance; or

  (c)   an arrangement for or in relation to the lending of money.

"subject to tax" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"tax accounting period" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"tax law" , in relation to a listed country or an unlisted country, has the same meaning as in Part   X.

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

"transfer" :

  (a)   in relation to property--includes dispose of (whether by assignment, declaration of trust or otherwise) or provide; and

  (b)   in relation to services--includes allow, confer, give, grant, perform or provide.

"trust estate" , in relation to a transfer of property or services, means the trust estate or, as the case requires, the trustee of the trust estate.

"underlying transfer" , in relation to a transfer of property or services to a trust estate, means:

  (a)   if that transfer was an actual transfer--the actual transfer; or

  (b)   if that transfer was taken to have been made because of subsection   102AAK(1)--the actual transfer referred to in that subsection; or

  (c)   if that transfer was taken to have been made because of subsection   102AAK(2)--the actual transfer referred to in paragraph   102AAK(2)(d); or

  (d)   if that transfer was taken to have been made because of subsection   102AAK(5)--the actual transfer referred to in paragraph   102AAK(5)(b); or

  (e)   if that transfer was taken to have been made because of the application of subsection   102AAK(6) or (8) to an actual transfer--the actual transfer; or

  (f)   if that transfer was taken to have been made because of the application of subsection   102AAK(6) or (8) to a transfer that was taken to have been made because of subsection   102AAK(1)--the actual transfer referred to in subsection   102AAK(1); or

  (g)   if that transfer was taken to have been made because of the application of subsection   102AAK(6) or (8) to a transfer that was taken to have been made because of subsection   102AAK(5)--the actual transfer referred to in paragraph   102AAK(5)(b); or

  (h)   if that transfer was taken to have been made because of subsection   102AAK(10)--the actual transfer referred to in paragraph   102AAK(10)(b); or

  (j)   if that transfer was taken to have been made because of one or more applications of subsection   102AAK(11) to an actual transfer--the actual transfer; or

  (k)   if that transfer was taken to have been made because of one or more applications of subsection   102AAK(11) to a transfer (in this paragraph called the deemed transfer ) that was taken to have been made because of subsection   102AAK(1), (2), (5), (6), (8) or (10)--the actual transfer that, under a preceding paragraph of this definition, is the underlying transfer in relation to the deemed transfer.

"underlying transferor" , in relation to a transfer of property or services to a trust estate, means the entity who made the underlying transfer concerned.

"unlisted country" has the same meaning as in Part   X.

"weighted statutory interest rate" , in relation to a year of income, means:

  (a)   if there is only one base interest rate in relation to the year of income--that rate; or

  (b)   if there are 2 or more base interest rates in relation to the year of income--the weighted average of the base rates for the year of income.



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