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TREASURY LAWS AMENDMENT (ENTERPRISE TAX PLAN) ACT 2017 - SCHEDULE 3

Access to small business concessions, etc.

Part   1 -- Amendments

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

1   Section   152 - 5

Omit:

  (a)   the entity must be a small business entity or a partner in a partnership that is a small business entity, or the net value of assets that the entity and related entities own must not exceed $6,000,000;

substitute:

  (a)   the entity must be a CGT small business entity or a partner in a partnership that is a CGT small business entity, or the net value of assets that the entity and related entities own must not exceed $6,000,000;

2   Subparagraph 152 - 10(1)(c)(i)

Omit " * small business entity", substitute " * CGT small business entity".

3   Subparagraph 152 - 10(1)(c)(iii)

Omit "small business entity", substitute "CGT small business entity".

4   Paragraph 152 - 10(1)(c) (note)

Repeal the note.

5   After subsection   152 - 10(1)

Insert:

CGT small business entity

  (1AA)   You are a CGT small business entity for an income year if:

  (a)   you are a * small business entity for the income year; and

  (b)   you would be a small business entity for the income year if each reference in section   328 - 110 to $10 million were a reference to $2 million.

Note:   For the purposes of subsection   ( 1A) or (1B), in determining whether an entity would be a small business entity, see also sections   152 - 48 and 152 - 78.

6   Paragraph 152 - 10(1A)(a)

Omit " * small business entity", substitute " * CGT small business entity".

7   Paragraph 152 - 10(1A)(d)

Omit "small business entity", substitute "CGT small business entity".

8   Subsection   152 - 10(1A) (note 2)

Repeal the note.

9   Paragraph 152 - 10(1B)(b)

Omit " * small business entity", substitute " * CGT small business entity".

10   Subsection   152 - 10(1B) (note 1)

Repeal the note.

11   Subsection   152 - 10(1B) (note 2)

Omit "Note 2", substitute "Note".

12   Subsection   152 - 48(1)

Omit " * small business entity", substitute " * CGT small business entity".

13   Section   152 - 100

Omit "small business entity", substitute "CGT small business entity".

14   At the end of subsection   328 - 10(1)

Add:

Note 1:   The CGT concessions mentioned in items   1, 2, 3 and 4 of the table apply only if you are a CGT small business entity (see section   152 - 10).

Note 2:   The small business income tax offset mentioned in item   6A of the table applies only if you are a small business entity as defined for the purposes of Subdivision   328 - F (see section   328 - 357).

15   Paragraph 328 - 110(1)(b)

Omit "$2 million" (wherever occurring), substitute "$10 million".

16   Subsection   328 - 110(3) (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

Exception: aggregated turnover for 2 previous income years was $10 million or more

17   Paragraph 328 - 110(3)(b)

Omit "$2 million", substitute "$10 million".

18   Paragraph 328 - 110(4)(b)

Omit "$2 million", substitute "$10 million".

19   Section   328 - 350

Repeal the section, substitute:

328 - 350   What this Subdivision is about

You may be entitled to a tax offset if you are an individual:

  (a)   who is a small business entity; or

  (b)   whose assessable income includes a share of the net small business income of an uninc orporated small business entity; or

  (c)   whose assessable income includes an amount because you are a partner in a partnership, or a beneficiary in a trust, that is a small business entity.

In working out whether you are or another entity is a small business entity, a special $5 million turnover threshold applies (see section   328 - 357).

20   After section   328 - 355

Insert:

328 - 357   Special meaning of small business entity for the purposes of this Subdivision--$5 million turnover threshold

    For the purposes of this Subdivision, in working out whether you are a * small business entity for an income year, assume that each reference in section   328 - 110 to $10 million were a reference to $5 million.

21   Subsection   995 - 1(1)

Insert:

"CGT small business entity" has the meaning given by subsection   152 - 10(1AA).

Part   2 -- Application of amendments

22   Application of amendments

(1)   Subject to the following subitems, the amendments made by Part   1 of this Schedule apply to the 2016 - 17 income year and later income years.

(2)   The following apply to CGT events happening on or after the start of the 2016 - 17 income year:

  (a)   the amendments made by items   1 to 1 3 of this Schedule;

  (b)   any other amendments made by this Schedule, to the extent that they relate to the amendments mentioned in paragraph   ( a).

( 3 )   The amendments made by items   1 5 to 18 of this Schedule, to the extent that they relate to the operation of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 , apply to the FBT year starting on 1   April 2017 and to later FBT years.



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