Treasury Laws Amendment (Housing Tax Integrity) Act 2017 (126 of 2017)

Schedule 1   Travel related to use of residential premises

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

2   After section 26-30

Insert:

26-31 Travel related to use of residential premises as residential accommodation

(1) You cannot deduct under this Act a loss or outgoing you incur, insofar as it is related to travel, if:

(a) it is incurred in gaining or producing your assessable income from the use of *residential premises as residential accommodation; and

(b) it is not necessarily incurred in carrying on a *business for the purpose of gaining or producing your assessable income.

Exception - kind of entity

(2) Subsection (1) does not stop you deducting a loss or outgoing if, at any time during the income year in which the loss or outgoing is incurred, you are:

(a) a *corporate tax entity; or

(b) a *superannuation plan that is not a *self managed superannuation fund; or

(c) a *managed investment trust; or

(d) a public unit trust (within the meaning of section 102P of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936); or

(e) a unit trust or partnership, if each *member of the trust or partnership is covered by a paragraph of this subsection at that time during the income year.