Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies to a debt in relation to a partner in a partnership if:
(a) in connection with an * arrangement, the partner's liability to pay the debt is reduced or eliminated and the partner's interest in the partnership ceases or is varied or transferred; and
(b) an excess would have been worked out under subsection 243 - 35(1) if, at the time when the debt is reduced or eliminated, the debt had been terminated and remained unpaid and this section had not applied.
(2) If this section applies to a debt in relation to a partner in a partnership, an amount is to be included in his or her assessable income.
(3) This is how to work out the amount to be included:
Working out the amount included
Step 1. Work out which income years the partner was a member of the partnership and the partnership was entitled to a * capital allowance deduction in respect of the expenditure or the * financed property (including deductions because of balancing adjustments).
Step 2. For each of those income years, work out the proportion of net income of the partnership or the partnership loss (as the case requires) that was included in the assessable income of the partner or which the partner could deduct.
Step 3. For each of those income years, multiply the * capital allowance deductions in respect of the expenditure or the * financed property (including deductions because of balancing adjustments) of the partnership by the corresponding proportion worked out under Step 2. Sum all of the amounts.
Step 4. Divide the sum by the total of the * capital allowance deductions in respect of the expenditure or the * financed property (including deductions because of balancing adjustments) of the partnership for all of those income years.
Step 5. Work out the amount that would have been included in the partnership's assessable income under section 243 - 40 if the debt had been terminated and remained unpaid and this section had not applied.
Step 6. Multiply the amount worked out in Step 5 by the factor worked out in Step 4. The result is the amount to be included in the partner's assessable income.