Product Ruling
PR 2004/44A - Addendum
Income tax: Gunns Plantations Woodlot Project 2004
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may be releasedAddendum
This Addendum amends Product Ruling PR 2004/44 to reflect changes to simplified tax system legislation from 2005-06 onwards.
PR 2004/44 is amended as follows:
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62. To be an 'STS taxpayer' a Grower must be eligible to be an 'STS taxpayer' and must have elected to be an 'STS taxpayer'. Changes to the STS rules apply from 1 July 2005. From that date, STS taxpayers may use the accruals accounting method. For a Grower participating in the Project, the recognition of income and the timing of tax deductions under the STS where the Grower uses the cash accounting method is different.
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65. Other than Growers referred to in paragraph 66, a Grower is assessable on ordinary income from carrying on their business of afforestation in the income year in which that income is derived.
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66. A Grower who is an 'STS taxpayer' (for the 2003-04 and 2004-05 income years) or an 'STS taxpayer' using the cash accounting method (for the 2005-06 income year and later years) is assessable on ordinary income from carrying on their business of afforestation at the time the income is received.
(a) Replace the table with:
| Fee Type | Year ended 30 June 2004 | Year ended 30 June 2005 | Year ended 30 June 2006 |
| Establishment Fee | $4,950 - See Notes (i) & (ii) | nil | nil |
| Interest payable to Gunns Finance under the finance arrangements | nil | As incurred (Non-STS taxpayers) Or as paid (STS taxpayers) See Notes (iii) & (iv) |
As incurred (Non-STS taxpayers & STS taxpayers using accruals accounting) Or as paid (STS taxpayers using cash accounting) See Notes (iii) & (iv) |
| Fee Type | Year ended 30 June 2005 | Year ended 30 June 2006 | Year ended 30 June 2007 |
| Establishment Fee | $4,950 - See Notes (i) & (ii) | nil | nil |
| Interest payable to Gunns Finance under the finance arrangements | nil | As incurred (Non-STS taxpayers & STS taxpayers using accruals accounting) Or as paid (STS taxpayers using cash accounting) See Notes (iii) & (iv) |
As incurred (Non-STS taxpayers & STS taxpayers using accruals accounting) Or as paid (STS taxpayers using cash accounting) See Notes (iii) & (iv) |
(b) In Note (iii), replace the last sentence with:
Where the Grower is not an 'STS taxpayer', such interest is deductible in the income year in which it is incurred.
For the 2004-05 income year, such interest is deductible in the income year in which it is paid where the Grower is an 'STS taxpayer'.
For the 2005-06 and 2006-07 income years, such interest is deductible in full in the year that it is incurred where the Grower is an 'STS taxpayer' using the accruals accounting method or in the year it is paid where the Grower is an 'STS taxpayer' using the cash accounting method.
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89. The interest incurred will be in respect of a loan to finance the Grower's business operations - the cultivation and growing of 'Trees' - that will continue to be directly connected with the gaining of 'business income' from the Project. Such interest will, therefore, have a sufficient connection with the gaining of assessable income to be deductible under section 8-1 in the income year in which it is incurred (where the Grower is not an 'STS taxpayer' or an 'STS taxpayer' using accruals accounting method) or the income year in which it is paid (where the Grower is an 'STS taxpayer' using cash accounting method).
This Addendum applies on and from 1 July 2005.
Commissioner of Taxation
16 November 2005
References
ATO references:
NO 2003/11684
ISSN: 1441-1172