Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
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Hide history noteAn amount paid by way of interest on a judgment debt, whether payable under an *Australian law, or otherwise, is exempt from income tax if:
(a) the judgment debt arose from a judgment (the original judgment ) given by, or entered in, a court for an award of damages for personal injury; and
(b) the amount is in respect of the whole or any part of the period:
(i) beginning at the time of the original judgment, or, if the judgment debt is taken to have arisen at an earlier time, at that earlier time; and
(ii) ending when the original judgment is finalised.
51-57(2)
For the purposes of subsection (1), an original judgment is finalised at whichever of the following times is applicable:
(a) if the period for lodging an appeal against either the original judgment or a subsequent related judgment ends without an appeal being lodged - the end of the period;
(b) if an appeal from either the original judgment or a subsequent related judgment is lodged and final judgment on the appeal is given by, or entered in, a court - when the final judgment takes effect;
(c) if an appeal from either the original judgment or a subsequent related judgment is lodged but is settled or discontinued - when the settlement or discontinuance takes effect.
51-57(3)
For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), a judgment is a final judgment if:
(a) no appeal lies against the judgment; or
(b) leave to appeal against the judgment has been refused.
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