Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

CHAPTER 3 - SPECIALIST LIABILITY RULES  

PART 3-90 - CONSOLIDATED GROUPS  

Division 716 - Miscellaneous special rules  

Subdivision 716-S - Miscellaneous consequences of tax cost setting  

SECTION 716-400   Tax cost setting and bad debts  

716-400(1)    
The object of this section is to clarify the effect of section 701-5 (entry history rule) and subsection 701-55(6) in relation to an asset that may give rise to a bad debt. It achieves this object by clarifying that certain things are taken to have happened in relation to the asset through the operation of section 701-5 and subsection 701-55(6) .

716-400(2)    
This section applies if:


(a) the tax cost of an asset was set at the time (the joining time ) an entity (the joining entity ) became a subsidiary member of a *consolidated group at the asset's tax cost setting amount; and


(b) the asset is a debt; and


(c) any of the following apply:


(i) the debt was included in the joining entity's assessable income before the joining time;

(ii) the debt was in respect of money that the joining entity lent before the joining time in the ordinary course of a business of lending money;

(iii) the joining entity bought the debt before the joining time in the ordinary course of a business of lending money; and


(d) the requirements in subsection 701-58(1) (intra-group assets) are not satisfied in relation to the asset.

716-400(3)    
To avoid doubt, in determining the extent to which the *head company of the group can deduct an amount under section 25-35 (bad debts) in relation to the asset, section 701-5 (entry history rule) and subsection 701-55(6) have the effect that, before the joining time:


(a) in a case covered by subparagraph (2)(c)(i) - the head company included an amount equal to the tax cost setting amount in its assessable income in respect of the debt; or


(b) in a case covered by subparagraph (2)(c)(ii) - the head company lent an amount of money in respect of the debt equal to the tax cost setting amount in the ordinary course of a business of lending money; or


(c) in a case covered by subparagraph (2)(c)(iii) - the head company incurred expenditure equal to the tax cost setting amount in buying the debt in the ordinary course of a business of lending money.


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