Tax Laws Amendment (2009 Measures No. 2) Act 2009 (42 of 2009)

Schedule 1   Tax treatment of payments under financial claims scheme

Insurance Act 1973

30   After section 62ZZK

Insert:

62ZZKA Giving information about payments in a financial year

(1) This section applies if one or more amounts are paid to, or applied for the benefit of, one or more persons (the recipients ) in a financial year to meet (wholly or partly) the recipients' entitlements under this Division.

Giving each recipient an annual statement

(2) Within 14 days after the end of the financial year, APRA must give each of the recipients a statement about the amounts paid to, or applied for the benefit of, the recipient in the financial year. The statement must:

(a) be in the approved form; and

(b) name the recipient; and

(c) state the recipient's tax file number, if APRA knows it; and

(d) state the total of the amounts and the total of the amounts (if any) withheld from them under the Taxation Administration Act 1953; and

(e) specify the financial year to which the statement relates.

Giving the Commissioner of Taxation an annual report

(3) Within 4 months after the end of the financial year, APRA must give the Commissioner a report in the approved form about all the amounts described in subsection (1).

Provisions about statements and reports in approved forms

(4) Division 388 in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 applies as if this section were a taxation law for the purposes of that Act.

Note: That Division sets out rules about approved forms and when they can be given.

This section does not limit the Taxation Administration Act 1953

(5) Subsection (4) does not limit the operation of the Taxation Administration Act 1953 in relation to APRA.