Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 9) Act 2012 (12 of 2012)

Schedule 2   Capital gains tax and certain business restructures

Part 1   Share and interest sale facilities for foreign interest holders in a restructure

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

10   At the end of Subdivision 126-G

Add:

126-265 Interest sale facilities

Interest sale facilities

(1) For the purposes of this Subdivision, an entity (the investor ) is treated as owning a *membership interest (the roll-over interest ) in the receiving trust at a time (the deeming time ), if:

(a) the investor owned a membership interest in the transferring trust; and

(b) a trust is created, or a transfer happens, (the transaction ) as mentioned in paragraph 126-225(1)(a) in relation to *CGT assets of the transferring trust; and

(c) because:

(i) a *foreign law impedes the ability of the receiving trust to issue or transfer the roll-over interest to the investor; or

(ii) it would be impractical or unreasonably onerous to determine whether a foreign law impedes the ability of the receiving trust to issue or transfer the roll-over interest to the investor;

it is *arranged that the receiving trust will issue or transfer the roll-over interest to another entity (the facility ) under the transaction instead of to the investor; and

(d) in accordance with that arrangement and as a result of the transaction, the facility:

(i) becomes the owner of the roll-over interest; and

(ii) owns the roll-over interest at the deeming time; and

(e) under the arrangement, the investor is entitled to receive from the facility:

(i) an amount equivalent to the *capital proceeds of any *CGT event that happens in relation to the roll-over interest (less expenses); or

(ii) if a CGT event happens in relation to the roll-over interest together with CGT events happening in relation to other membership interests - an amount equivalent to the investor’s proportion of the total capital proceeds of the CGT events (less expenses).

(2) The facility is treated as not owning the roll-over interest at the deeming time.