Treasury Laws Amendment (A Tax Plan for the COVID-19 Economic Recovery) Act 2020 (92 of 2020)

Schedule 5   Enhancing the integrity of the R&D Tax Incentive

Part 1   Schemes to reduce income tax

Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

2   After paragraph 177C(1)(bc)

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or (bd) a refundable R&D tax offset, or a non-refundable R&D tax offset, being allowable to the taxpayer in relation to a year of income where the whole or a part of the offset would not have been allowable, or might reasonably be expected not to have been allowable, to the taxpayer in relation to that year of income if the scheme had not been entered into or carried out;