Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures) Act 2019 (129 of 2019)

Schedule 1   Capital gains tax changes for foreign residents

Part 1   Main residence exemption

Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

32   Before section 118-195

Insert:

118-110 Foreign residents

(1) None of the amendments made by Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures) Act 2019 apply in relation to a capital gain or capital loss you make from a CGT event if:

(a) the CGT event happens on or before 30 June 2020; and

(b) you held an ownership interest in the dwelling to which the CGT event relates throughout the period:

(i) starting just before 7.30 pm, by legal time in the Australian Capital Territory, on 9 May 2017; and

(ii) ending just before the CGT event happens.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), treat the ownership interest in the dwelling as having been held by you during a time during which the interest was held by:

(a) in relation to sections 118-195 to 118-210 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 - the deceased or the trustee of the deceased estate; or

(b) in relation to sections 118-215 to 118-230 of that Act - the trustee of the special disability trust.