CHAPTER 3
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SPECIALIST LIABILITY RULES
PART 3-3
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CAPITAL GAINS AND LOSSES: SPECIAL TOPICS
History
Part 3-3 inserted by No 46 of 1998.
Division 152
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Small business relief
History
Div 152 inserted by No 165 of 1999 (as amended by No 173 of 2000).
Subdivision 152-B
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Small business 15-year exemption
SECTION 152-125
Payments to company
'
s or trust
'
s CGT concession stakeholders are exempt
152-125(1)
This section applies if:
(a)
one or more of the following apply:
(i)
under section
152-110
, a *capital gain (the
exempt amount
) of a company or trust is disregarded;
(ii)
under section
152-110
, an amount of income (the
exempt amount
) is *non-assessable non-exempt income of a company or trust;
(iii)
subparagraph (i) of this paragraph would have applied to an amount (the
exempt amount
) except that the capital gain was disregarded anyway because the relevant *CGT asset was *acquired before 20 September 1985;
(iv)
subparagraph (i) of this paragraph would have applied to an amount (the
exempt amount
) if subsection
149-30(1A)
and section
149-35
had not applied to the relevant asset; and
(b)
the company or trust makes one or more payments relating to the exempt amount to an individual (whether directly or indirectly through one or more interposed entities) before the later of:
(i)
2 years after the relevant *CGT event; and
(ii)
if the relevant CGT event happened because the company or trust *disposed of the relevant CGT asset
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6 months after the latest time a possible *financial benefit becomes or could become due under a *look-through earnout right relating to that CGT asset and the disposal; and
(c)
the individual was a *CGT concession stakeholder of the company or trust just before the relevant CGT event.
Note:
A normal business payment, for example, a payment of wages, would not be made
"
in relation to the exempt amount
"
.
History
S 152-125(1) amended by No 10 of 2016, s 3 and Sch 1 item 14, by substituting para (b) and (c) for para (b), applicable in relation to look-through earnout rights created on or after 24 April 2015. For transitional provision, see note under Subdiv
118-I
heading. Para (b) formerly read:
(b)
the company or trust make one or more payments (whether directly or indirectly through one or more interposed entities) in relation to the exempt amount within 2 years after the relevant *CGT event to an individual who was a *CGT concession stakeholder of the company or trust just before the event.
S 152-125(1) amended by No 88 of 2009, s 3 and Sch 5 items 333 to 335, by substituting
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or more of the following apply
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for
"
of the following applies
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in para (a), omitting
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and
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at the end of para (a)(iii) and inserting para (a)(iv) at the end of para (a), applicable in relation to a payment made by a company or trust on or after 18 September 2009.
152-125(2)
In determining the taxable income of the company, the trust, the individual, or any of the interposed entities, disregard the total amount of the payment or payments made to the *CGT concession stakeholder, up to the following limit:
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Stakeholder
'
s participation
percentage |
× |
Exempt amount |
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where:
stakeholder
'
s participation percentage
means:
(a)
in the case of a company or a trust referred to in item 2 of the table in subsection
152-70(1)
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the stakeholder
'
s *small business participation percentage in the company or trust just before the relevant *CGT event; or
(b)
in the case of a trust referred to in item 3 of that table
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the amount (expressed as a percentage) worked out using the following formula:
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100 |
|
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Number of *CGT concession
stakeholders of the trust
just before the *CGT event |
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152-125(3)
If a company makes such a payment, this Act applies to the payment, to the extent that it is less than or equal to the limit mentioned in subsection (2), as if:
(a)
it were not a *dividend; and
(b)
it were not a *frankable distribution.
152-125(4)
The Commissioner may extend the time limit under paragraph (1)(b).
History
S 152-125 substituted by
No 55 of 2007
, s 3 and Sch 1 item 45, applicable to CGT events happening in the 2006-07 income year or later income years. S 152-125 formerly read:
SECTION 152-125 Payments to company
'
s or trust
'
s CGT concession stakeholders are exempt
152-125(1)
This section applies if:
(a)
under section
152-110
, a *capital gain of a company or trust is disregarded; or
(b)
under section
152-110
, an amount of income is treated as neither assessable income nor *exempt income of the company or trust; or
(c)
paragraph (a) of this subsection would have applied to an amount except that the *capital gain was disregarded anyway because the relevant *CGT asset was *acquired before 20 September 1985.
In this section, that amount is called the
exempt amount
.
History
S 152-125(1) substituted by No 173 of 2000.
152-125(2)
Any payment the company or trust makes (whether directly or indirectly through one or more interposed entities) within 2 years after the *CGT event to an individual who was a *CGT concession stakeholder of the company or trust just before the event is not taken into account in determining the taxable income of the company or trust, the individual or any of the interposed entities.
152-125(3)
However, subsection (2) applies only to the extent that the total of the payments made by the company or trust to a particular *CGT concession stakeholder for an exempt amount does not exceed the following limit:
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Stakeholder
'
s control
percentage |
×
Exempt amount |
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where:
stakeholder
'
s control percentage
means:
(a)
in the case of a company
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the percentage of the interests in *shares in the company of the kind mentioned in subsection
152-55(1)
held by the CGT concession stakeholder just before the *CGT event; or
(b)
in the case of a trust mentioned in subsection
152-55(2)
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the percentage of the income and capital of the trust to which the CGT concession stakeholder was beneficially entitled just before the CGT event; or
(c)
in the case of a trust mentioned in subsection
152-55(3)
that had a single CGT concession stakeholder just before the CGT event
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100%; or
(d)
in the case of a trust mentioned in subsection
152-55(3)
that had 2 CGT concession stakeholders just before the CGT event
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50% each.
S 152-125 inserted by No 165 of 1999 (as amended by No 173 of 2000).