Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 2) Act 2011 (41 of 2011)

Schedule 5  

Part 4   Employee share schemes

Division 1   Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

27   Before subsection 130-90(1)

Insert:

Shares held for future acquisition under employee share schemes

(1A) Disregard any *capital gain or *capital loss made by an *employee share trust to the extent that it results from a *CGT event, if:

(a) immediately before the event happens, an *ESS interest is a *CGT asset of the trust; and

(b) either of the following subparagraphs applies:

(i) the event is CGT event E5, and the event happens because a beneficiary of the trust becomes absolutely entitled to the ESS interest as against the trustee;

(ii) the event is CGT event E7, and the event happens because the trustee *disposes of the ESS interest to a beneficiary of the trust; and

(c) Subdivision 83A-B or 83A-C (about employee share schemes) applies to the ESS interest.

Shares held to satisfy the future exercise of rights acquired under employee share schemes