Taxation Administration Act 1953
Note: See section 3AA .
Chapter 4 - Generic assessment, collection and recovery rulesSECTION 284-90 BASE PENALTY AMOUNT 284-90(1)
The base penalty amount under this Subdivision is worked out using this table and subsections (1A) to (2), and section 284-224 if relevant:
Base penalty amount | |||
Item | In this situation: | The base penalty amount is: | |
1 | You have a *shortfall amount as a result of a statement described in subsection 284-75(1) or (4) and the amount, or part of the amount, resulted from intentional disregard of a *taxation law (other than the *Excise Acts) by you or your agent | 75% of your *shortfall amount or part | |
2 | You have a *shortfall amount as a result of a statement described in subsection 284-75(1) or (4) and the amount, or part of the amount, resulted from recklessness by you or your agent as to the operation of a *taxation law (other than the *Excise Acts) | 50% of your *shortfall amount or part | |
3 | You have a *shortfall amount as a result of a statement described in subsection 284-75(1) or (4) and the amount, or part of the amount, resulted from a failure by you or your agent to take reasonable care to comply with a *taxation law (other than the *Excise Acts) | 25% of your *shortfall amount or part | |
3A | A statement described in subsection 284-75(1) or (4) was false or misleading because of intentional disregard of a *taxation law (other than the *Excise Acts) by you or your *agent but did not result in you having a *shortfall amount | 60 penalty units | |
3B | A statement described in subsection 284-75(1) or (4) was false or misleading because of recklessness by you or your *agent as to the operation of a *taxation law (other than the *Excise Acts) but did not result in you having a *shortfall amount | 40 penalty units | |
3C | A statement described in subsection 284-75(1) or (4) was false or misleading because of a failure by you or your *agent to take reasonable care to comply with a *taxation law (other than the *Excise Acts) but did not result in you having a *shortfall amount | 20 penalty units | |
4 | You have a *shortfall amount, all or part of which resulted from you or your agent treating an *income tax law or the *petroleum resource rent tax law as applying to a matter or identical matters in a particular way that was not *reasonably arguable, and that amount is more than your *reasonably arguable threshold. | 25% of your *shortfall amount or part | |
5 | You have a *shortfall amount because of section 284-30 (about trusts) and: | 25% of your *shortfall amount or part | |
(a) | your shortfall amount or part of it resulted from you or your agent treating an *income tax law as applying to a matter or identical matters in a particular way that was not *reasonably arguable; and | ||
(b) | because of that treatment, the trust ' s net income would have been reduced, or the trust ' s *tax loss would have been increased, for the income year by more than the trust ' s *reasonably arguable threshold | ||
6 | You have a *shortfall amount because of section 284-35 (about partnerships) and: | 25% of your *shortfall amount or part | |
(a) | your shortfall amount or part of it resulted from you or your agent treating an *income tax law as applying to a matter or identical matters in a particular way that was not *reasonably arguable; and | ||
(b) | because of that treatment, the partnership net income would have been reduced, or the partnership loss would have been increased, for the income year by more than the partnership ' s *reasonably arguable threshold | ||
7 | You are liable to an administrative penalty under subsection 284-75(3) | 75% of the tax-related liability concerned | |
8 | (Repealed by No 75 of 2005) |
284-90(1A)
The *base penalty amount in an item of the table in subsection (1) that applies to you is taken to be doubled if:
(a) on or before the day (your trigger day ) applying to you under subsection (4) for that table item:
(i) the Commissioner has made an assessment of your income tax for one or more income years; or
(ii) the Commissioner has made a determination under subsection 960-555(3) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 in relation to you, or in relation to the *global parent entity for the group of which you are a member, for a period; or
(iii) you have given the Commissioner statements in accordance with Subdivision 815-E of that Act for an income year or another 12 month period; or
(iv) you were a *subsidiary member of a *consolidated group or a *MEC group for one or more income years, and the Commissioner has made an assessment of the income tax of another entity that was a *member of the group for one or more of those income years; and
(b) you were a *significant global entity for:
(i) whichever of those income years or periods that ends on the most recent day; or
(ii) if more than one of them ends on that most recent day - any of those income years or periods that ends on that most recent day.
Note:
For subparagraph (a)(iii), you may be allowed to give statements for a 12 month period other than an income year (see section 815-360 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 ).
284-90(1B)
However, subsection (1A) is taken never to have applied to you in relation to your trigger day if:
(a) the Commissioner makes an assessment of:
(i) your income tax for the income year that includes your trigger day; or
(ii) if you were a *subsidiary member of a *consolidated group or a *MEC group for the income year that includes your trigger day - the income tax, for that income year, of another *member of that group; and
(b) you are not a *significant global entity for that income year.
284-90(2)
If 2 or more items in that table apply and one of them produces a greater *base penalty amount than any of the others, use that item.
284-90(3)
An entity ' s reasonably arguable threshold for an income year is:
(a) unless paragraph (b) applies - the greater of $10,000 or 1% of whichever of the following applies:
(i) the income tax payable by the entity for the income year, worked out on the basis of the entity ' s *income tax return;
(ii) the *petroleum resource rent tax payable by the entity for the year of tax (within the meaning of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987 ) most closely corresponding to the income year, worked out on the basis of the entity ' s return under Division 1 of Part VI of that Act; or
(b) if the entity is a trust or partnership - the greater of the following amounts:
(i) $ 20,000;
(ii) 2 % of the entity ' s * net income (if any) for the income year worked out on the basis of the entity ' s * income tax return.
284-90(4)
For the purposes of paragraph (1A)(a), the following day applies to you for the relevant item of the table in subsection (1):
(a) for any of table items 1 to 3C - the day you made the statement referred to in that item;
(b) for any of table items 4 to 6 - the day you made the statement to which that item relates and that is referred to in subsection 284-75(2) ;
(c) for table item 7 - the day the return, notice or other document to which that item relates, and that is referred to in subsection 284-75(3) , was required to be given.
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