Future Made in Australia (Production Tax Credits and Other Measures) Act 2025 (9 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Hydrogen production tax incentive

Part 3   Schemes to reduce income tax

Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

25   At the end of subsection 177C(2)

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; or (h) a hydrogen production tax offset being allowable to the taxpayer in relation to a year of income the whole or a part of which offset would not have been, 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, where:

(i) the allowance of the offset to the taxpayer is attributable to the making of a declaration, agreement, election, selection or choice, the giving of a notice or the exercise of an option by any person, being a declaration, agreement, election, selection, choice, notice or option expressly provided for by this Act; and

(ii) the scheme was not entered into or carried out by any person for the purpose of creating any circumstance or state of affairs the existence of which is necessary to enable the declaration, agreement, election, selection, choice, notice or option to be made, given or exercised, as the case may be.