New Business Tax System (Thin Capitalisation) Act 2001 (162 of 2001)

Schedule 2   Dictionary amendments

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

1   Section 960-100

Repeal the link note, substitute:

Subdivision 960-F - Distribution by corporate tax entities

Table of sections

960-115 Meaning of corporate tax entity

960-120 Meaning of distribution

960-115 Meaning of corporate tax entity

An entity is a corporate tax entity at a particular time if:

(a) the entity is a company at that time; or

(b) the entity is a *corporate limited partnership in relation to the income year in which that time occurs; or

(c) the entity is a *corporate unit trust in relation to the income year in which that time occurs; or

(d) the entity is a *public trading trust in relation to the income year in which that time occurs.

960-120 Meaning of distribution

(1) What constitutes a distribution by various *corporate tax entities is set out in the following table:

Distribution

Item

Corporate tax entity

Distribution

1

company

a dividend, or something that is taken to be a dividend, under this Act

2

*corporate limited partnership

(a) a distribution made by the partnership, whether in money or in other property, to a partner in the partnership, other than a distribution, or so much of a distribution, as is attributable to profits or gains arising during a year of income in relation to which the partnership was not a corporate limited partnership

(b) something that is taken to be a dividend by the partnership under this Act

3

*corporate unit trust

a unit trust dividend, as defined in subsection 102D(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

4

*public trading trust

a unit trust dividend, as defined in section 102M of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

(2) A *corporate tax entity makes a distribution in the form of a dividend on the day on which the dividend is paid, or taken to have been paid.