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INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 709.220

Limit on deduction of swap loss

Object

  (1)   The object of this section is to limit the circumstances in which an entity can deduct a swap loss (as defined in section   63E of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 ) resulting from a debt/equity swap (as defined in that section) to circumstances similar to those in which this Subdivision lets an entity deduct a debt it writes off as bad.

Modified operation of sections   709 - 205, 709 - 210 and 709 - 215

  (2)   Sections   709 - 205, 709 - 210 and 709 - 215 (except subsection   709 - 215(2)) apply in relation to the extinction (however described) of a debt as part of a debt/equity swap in the same way as they apply in relation to the writing off of a debt as bad.

  (3)   Subsection   709 - 215(1):

  (a)   applies in relation to a swap loss from a debt/equity swap in the same way as it applies in relation to a debt, or part of a debt; and

  (b)   applies as if paragraph   709 - 215(1)(a) referred to subsection   63E(3) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 instead of sections   8 - 1 and 25 - 35.

  (4)   This section has effect despite subsection   63E(5) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 .

 



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