CHAPTER 3
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SPECIALIST LIABILITY RULES
PART 3-5
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CORPORATE TAXPAYERS AND CORPORATE DISTRIBUTIONS
Division 175
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Use of a company
'
s tax losses or deductions to avoid income tax
Subdivision 175-A
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Tax benefits from unused tax losses
SECTION 175-5
When Commissioner can disallow deduction for tax loss
175-5(1)
This Subdivision sets out cases where the Commissioner may disallow some or all of a *tax loss (or of part of a tax loss) (the
excluded loss
) as a deduction in calculating a company
'
s taxable income of an income year after the *loss year.
175-5(2)
However, the Commissioner cannot disallow the *excluded loss if the company:
(a)
fails to meet a condition in section
165-12
(which is about the company maintaining the same owners) in respect of the *loss year or the income year; but
(b)
meets the condition in section
165-13
in respect of the income year by satisfying the *business continuity test under section
165-210
.
History
S 175-5(2) amended by No 7 of 2019, s 3 and Sch 1 item 9, by substituting para (b), effective 1 April 2019 and applicable in relation to income years starting on or after 1 July 2015. Para (b) formerly read:
(b)
meets the condition in section 165-13 (which is about the company satisfying the same business test) in respect of the income year.
S 175-5(2) amended by
No 164 of 2007
, s 3 and Sch 6 item 35, by repealing the note, applicable to:
(a) any tax loss that is incurred in an income year commencing on or after 1 July 2005; and
(b) any net capital loss that is made in an income year commencing on or after 1 July 2005; and
(c) any deduction in respect of a bad debt that is incurred in an income year commencing on or after 1 July 2005.
The note formerly read:
Note:
Companies whose total income for an income year is more than $100 million cannot meet the condition in section
165-13
in respect of that year: see section
165-212A
.
S 175-5(2) amended by No 147 of 2005, No 114 of 2000 and No 16 of 1998.