Tax Laws Amendment (Tax Incentives for Innovation) Act 2016 (54 of 2016)

Schedule 1   Tax incentives for early stage investors

Part 2   Other amendments

Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

11   After paragraph 177F(3)(d)

Insert:

(da) if, in the opinion of the Commissioner:

(i) an amount would have been allowed, or would be allowable, to the relevant taxpayer as an innovation tax offset if the scheme had not been entered into or carried out, being an amount that was not allowed or would not, apart from this subsection, be allowable, as the case may be, as an innovation tax offset to the relevant taxpayer; and

(ii) it is fair and reasonable that the amount, or a part of the amount, should be allowable as an innovation tax offset to the relevant taxpayer;

determine that that amount or that part, as the case may be, should have been allowed or is allowable, as the case may be, as an innovation tax offset to the relevant taxpayer; or