Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
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Hide history noteNote: A Commissioner ' s Remedial Power modification is relevant to this part of the tax law. Taxation Administration (Remedial Power - Work Test for Personal Superannuation Contributions) Determination 2023 (F2023L00564) modifies the operation of s 290-165(1A) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 and any other provisions of a taxation law whose operation is affected by the modified operation of s 290-165(1A) .
The operation of the relevant provision is modified as follows:
For the purposes of s 370-5 in Sch 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 , s 290-165(1A) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 is modified to operate as if:
The modification applies in relation to contributions made on or after 1 July 2022.
An entity must treat a modification as not applying to it or any other entity if the modification would produce a less favourable result for it. The Commissioner is empowered by s 370-5 of Sch 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 to make modifications, by legislative instrument, to ensure the law is administered to achieve its intended purpose or object.
SECTION 290-155 Complying superannuation fund condition 290-155(1)
If the contribution is made to a *superannuation fund:
(a) the fund must be a *complying superannuation fund, for the income year of the fund in which you made the contribution, that is not:
(i) a *Commonwealth public sector superannuation scheme in which you have a *defined benefit interest; or
(ii) a superannuation fund that would not include the contribution in its assessable income under section 295-190 ; or
(iii) a superannuation fund of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this subparagraph; and
(b) the contribution must not be a contribution of a kind prescribed by the regulations that is made to a superannuation fund of a kind prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.
290-155(2)
In determining for the purposes of subparagraph (1)(a)(ii) whether section 295-190 would apply in relation to a contribution, disregard Subdivision 295-D .
290-155(3)
The Commissioner may publish, in such manner as the Commissioner thinks fit, lists of:
(a) the *superannuation funds to which subparagraph (1)(a)(i), (ii) or (iii) applies for an income year; and
(b) the kinds of contributions to which paragraph (1)(b) applies for an income year, and the superannuation funds to which those contributions have been or would be made.
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