Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsPeriod over which overall gain or loss is to be spread
(1) If you have a sufficiently certain overall gain or loss from a * financial arrangement under subsection 230 - 105(1), the period over which the gain or loss is to be spread is the period that:
(a) starts when you start to have the arrangement; and
(b) ends when you will cease to have the arrangement.
In applying paragraph (b), you must assume that you will continue to have the arrangement for the rest of its life.
Period over which particular gain or loss is to be spread
(3) If you have a sufficiently certain gain or loss from a * financial arrangement under subsection 230 - 110(1), the period over which the gain or loss is to be spread is the period to which the gain or loss relates. Have regard to the pricing, terms and conditions of the arrangement in working out the period to which the gain or loss relates. This subsection has effect subject to subsections (4) and (5).
(4) The start of the period over which a gain or loss to which subsection (3) applies is to be spread must:
(a) not start earlier than the time when you start to have the * financial arrangement; and
(b) other than in the case of a gain or loss to which subsection 230 - 100(3A) or subsection (4A) of this section applies--not start earlier than the start of the income year during which it becomes sufficiently certain that you will make the gain or loss.
(4A) This subsection applies to a gain or loss to which subsection (3) applies, if:
(a) there is an impairment (within the meaning of the * accounting principles) of:
(i) the * financial arrangement; or
(ii) a financial asset or financial liability that forms part of the arrangement; and
(b) because of the impairment, you make a reassessment under section 230 - 185 in relation to the arrangement; and
(c) you determine on the reassessment that the gain or loss is not sufficiently certain (whether or not the gain or loss was sufficiently certain before the reassessment); and
(d) there is a reversal of the impairment loss (within the meaning of the accounting principles) that resulted from the impairment; and
(e) because of the reversal, you make a reassessment under section 230 - 185 in relation to the arrangement; and
(f) you determine on the reassessment that the gain or loss has become sufficiently certain.
Note: For the income years to which the gain or loss is allocated, see section 230 - 170.
(5) The end of the period over which a gain or loss to which subsection (3) applies is to be spread must not end later than the time when you will cease to have the * financial arrangement.