Taxation Determination
TD 92/171A1 - Addendum
Income tax: capital gains: does the principal residence exemption extend to additional land acquired after the time of acquisition of the residence?
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This Addendum amends Taxation Determination TD 92/171 to reflect the rewritten capital gains tax provisions in Part 3-1 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. |
Addendum
TD 92/171 is amended as follows:
Omit 'principal'; substitute 'main'.
(a) Omit 'subsections 160ZZQ(3) and 160ZZQ(4)'; substitute 'sections 118-120 and 118-165 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997'.
(b) After 'land' (first occurrence) insert ' (including the area of land on which the dwelling is built)'.
(c) Omit subparagraph 1(iv); substitute:
(iv) the CGT event that happens in relation to the additional land also happens in relation to the dwelling (or your ownership interest in it).
(a) In the first paragraph omit 'sole or principal'; substitute 'main'.
(b) Omit the second paragraph; substitute:
In 1989, they purchase the vacant block of land that adjoins the land on which their dwelling is situated and construct a private swimming pool. The total of the area of adjacent land and the area of the land on which the home is situated is less than 2 hectares. In 2001, they enter into a contract to sell the home with the adjoining block.
(c) In the third paragraph omit 'full principal'; substitute 'full main'.
Omit 'TD 92/115'.
Omit the subject references; substitute
adjacent land; CGT main residence exemption
Omit the legislative references; substitute:
ITAA 1997 118-120; ITAA 1997 118-165
This Addendum applies from 14 September 2006, the date of effect of the repeal of the former capital gains tax provisions in Part IIIA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 by Tax Laws Amendment (Repeal of Inoperative Provisions) Act 2006.
Commissioner of Taxation
21 April 2010
References
ATO references:
NO 2006/20258