Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2013 Measures No. 1) Act 2013 (88 of 2013)

Schedule 5   Loss carry back

Part 3   Anti-avoidance

Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

38   After paragraph 177F(3)(c)

Insert:

(ca) if, in the opinion of the Commissioner:

(i) an amount would have been allowed, or would be allowable, to the relevant taxpayer as a loss carry back tax offset if the scheme had not been entered into or carried out, being an amount that was not allowed or would not, apart from this subsection, be allowable, as the case may be, as a loss carry back tax offset to the relevant taxpayer; and

(ii) it is fair and reasonable that the amount, or a part of the amount, should be allowable as a loss carry back tax offset to the relevant taxpayer;

determine that that amount or that part, as the case may be, should have been allowed or is allowable, as the case may be, as a loss carry back tax offset to the relevant taxpayer; or