Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 118.200

  (1)   You get only a partial exemption (or no exemption) if:

  (a)   you are an individual and your * ownership interest in a * dwelling * passed to you as a beneficiary in a deceased estate, or you owned it as the trustee of a deceased estate; and

  (b)   section   118 - 195 does not apply.

  (2)   You calculate your * capital gain or * capital loss using the formula:

where:

"CG or CL amount" is the * capital gain or * capital loss you would have made from the * CGT event apart from this Subdivision.

"non-main residence days" is the sum of:

  (a)   if the deceased * acquired the * ownership interest on or after 20   September 1985--the number of days in the deceased's * ownership period when the * dwelling was not the deceased's main residence; and

  (aa)   if the deceased acquired the ownership interest on or after 20   September 1985 and, just before the deceased's death, the deceased was an * excluded foreign resident--the number of remaining days in the deceased's ownership period; and

  (b)   the number of days in the period from the death until your ownership interest ends when the dwelling was not the main residence of an individual referred to in item   2, column 3 of the table in section   118 - 195.

"total days" is:

  (a)   if the deceased * acquired the * ownership interest before 20   September 1985--the number of days in the period from the death until your ownership interest ends; or

  (b)   if the deceased acquired the ownership interest on or after that day--the number of days in the period from the acquisition of the dwelling by the deceased until your ownership interest ends.

  (3)   However, you can adjust the formula by ignoring any non - main residence days and total days in the period from the deceased's death until your * ownership interest ended, if:

  (a)   the deceased * acquired the ownership interest on or after 20   September 1985; and

  (b)   your ownership interest ends within:

  (i)   2 years of the deceased's death; or

  (ii)   a longer period allowed by the Commissioner; and

  (c)   you get a more favourable result by doing so; and

  (d)   the deceased was not an * excluded foreign resident just before the deceased's death.

Note 1:   The formula in this section will be adjusted (or further adjusted) under section   118 - 205 if the deceased acquired the dwelling through a deceased estate.

Note 2:   There may be a further adjustment if the dwelling was used for the purpose of producing assessable income: see section   118 - 190.

  (4)   You ignore any non - main residence days before the deceased's death if:

  (a)   the * dwelling was the deceased's main residence just before the death; and

  (b)   the dwelling was not being used for the * purpose of producing assessable income just before the death, or any use for that purpose just before the death was ignored because of subsection   118 - 190(3) or (3A); and

  (c)   the deceased was not an * excluded foreign resident just before the deceased's death.