Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

CHAPTER 2 - LIABILITY RULES OF GENERAL APPLICATION

PART 2-10 - CAPITAL ALLOWANCES: RULES ABOUT DEDUCTIBILITY OF CAPITAL EXPENDITURE

Division 40 - Capital allowances

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Subdivision 40-D - Balancing adjustments

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Commissioner ' s Remedial Power

Note: A Commissioner ' s Remedial Power (CRP 2017/2) is relevant to this part of the tax law. Taxation Administration (Remedial Power - Small Business Restructure Roll-over) Determination 2017 (F2017L01687) modifies the operation of s 40-340 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 and any other provisions of a taxation law whose operation is affected by the modified operation of s 40-340 in relation to an asset transferred under a small business restructure roll-over (item 8 of the table in s 40-340(1) ).

The operation of the relevant provisions is modified as follows:

If s 40-340 of ITAA 1997 provides for rollover relief in relation to a disposal of a depreciating asset because the condition in item 8 of the table in s 40-340(1) of ITAA 1997 is satisfied in relation to the asset, that section has effect as if it also provided that the disposal of the asset has no direct consequences under the income tax law (other than Div 40 of ITAA 1997).

The modification applies in respect of transfers on or after 8 May 2018.

An entity must treat a modification as not applying to it or any other entity if the modification would produce a less favourable result for it. The Commissioner is empowered by s 370-5 of Sch 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 to make modifications, by legislative instrument, to ensure the law is administered to achieve its intended purpose or object.

Operative provisions

SECTION 40-292 Adjustments - assets used for both general tax purposes and R & D activities

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40-292(1)
This section applies if:

(a) a *balancing adjustment event happens in an income year (the event year ) for an asset you *held and for which:

(i) you can deduct, for an income year, an amount under section 40-25 , as that section applies apart from Division 355 and former section 73BC of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 ; or

(ii) you could have deducted, for an income year, an amount as described in subparagraph (i) if you had used the asset; and

(b) you are entitled under section 355-100 to *tax offsets for one or more income years for deductions (the R & D deductions ) under section 355-305 for the asset.

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Note 1:

This section applies in a modified way if you have deductions for the asset under former section 73BA or 73BH of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (see section 40-292 of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 ).

Note 2:

To the extent that any amount is included in your assessable income under section 40-285 in relation to R & D activities, you may have an additional amount included in your assessable income (see section 355-447 ).

Note 3:

To the extent any amount that you are entitled to as a deduction under section 40-285 relates to R & D activities, you may have an additional amount you can deduct (see section 355-466 ).

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Section 40-290 to be applied as if use for conducting R & D activities were use for a taxable purpose

40-292(2)
In applying section 40-290 (including references in that section to the reduction of deductions under section 40-25 ) in relation to the asset, assume that using the asset for a *taxable purpose includes using it for the purpose of conducting the *R & D activities to which the R & D deductions relate.

40-292(3)
(Repealed by No 92 of 2020)

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40-292(4)
(Repealed by No 92 of 2020)

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40-292(5)
(Repealed by No 92 of 2020)

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History

S 40-292 substituted by No 93 of 2011, s 3 and Sch 3 item 24, effective 8 September 2011. For application, savings and transitional provisions see note under Div 355 heading. S 40-292 formerly read:

SECTION 40-292 Adjustments where deductions for decline in value also allowable under section 73BA or 73BH of Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
Section applies if deductions for decline in value under both this Division and section 73BA

40-292(1)
This section applies if:

(a) a ^* balancing adjustment event occurs for a ^* depreciating asset you ^* held and:

(i) whose decline in value you worked out under Subdivision 40-B ; or

(ii) whose decline in value you would have worked out under that Subdivision if you had used the asset; and

(b) for any income year in which you held the asset, you also deducted an amount for it under section 73BA or 73BH of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 , or could have done so if:

(i) you had not chosen a tax offset under section 73I of that Act; or

(ii) section 73BAF of that Act had not been enacted.

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S 40-292(1) amended by No 16 of 2003.

Section 40-290 to be applied as if use for carrying on research and development activities were use for a taxable purpose

40-292(2)
If this section applies, you must, in applying section 40-290 (including references in that section to the reduction of deductions under section 40-25 ) in relation to the ^* depreciating asset, assume that when you used it either for a taxable purpose or for the purpose of the carrying on by or on behalf of you of research and development activities, within the meaning of section 73B of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 , you used it for a taxable purpose.

Increase in amounts deductible or assessable under section 40-285 where 1.25 rate deductions under section 73BA or 73BH

40-292(3)
If:

(a) this section applies; and

(b) the amount you deducted under section 73BA or 73BH of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 , as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) of this section, for at least one income year was worked out by multiplying a notional Division 40 deduction (within the meaning of section 73BA) or a notional Division 42 deduction (within the meaning of section 73BJ ) by 1.25 (or would have been so worked out had section 73BAF of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 not been enacted);
then subsection (4) applies.

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S 40-292(3) amended by No 16 of 2003.

40-292(4)
Any amount (the section 40-285 amount ) that you can deduct, or that is included in your assessable income, for the ^* depreciating asset under section 40-285 (after applying subsection (2) of this section) is increased by the amount worked out using the formula:

Sum of all 1.25 rate
notional Division 40/42
deductions
Total decline in value

×
Adjusted section 40-285 amount

×

0.25

where:

adjusted section 40-285 amount
means:

(a) if the section 40-285 amount is a deduction - the amount of the deduction; or

(b) if the section 40-285 amount is an amount included in your assessable income - so much of the section 40-285 amount as does not exceed the formula component total decline in value .

sum of all 1.25 rate notional Division 40/42 deductions
means the sum of all notional Division 40 deductions and notional Division 42 deductions (see paragraph (3)(b)) that were multiplied by 1.25 in working out the amounts you deducted for the ^* depreciating asset as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b).

total decline in value
means the cost of the ^* depreciating asset less its ^* adjustable value.

Note:

An asset whose tax cost is set under Division 701 of this Act may have its adjustable value reduced in applying this section: see section 73BAG of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 .

S 40-292 amended by No 16 of 2003 and inserted by No 170 of 2001.

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	Sum of your R & D deductions	×	Adjusted section 40-285 amount
	Total decline in value	×	Adjusted section 40-285 amount