Tax Laws Amendment (Research and Development) Act 2011 (93 of 2011)

Schedule 4   Application, savings and transitional provisions

Part 3   Transitional provisions appearing as amendments of other Acts

Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

10   After section 40-65

Insert:

40-67 Methods for working out decline in value

(1) Subsections 40-65(6) and (7) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 apply with the changes set out in this section if either or both of the following events have happened:

(a) you have deducted one or more amounts under former section 73BA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 for an asset;

(b) you could have deducted one or more amounts under that former section for the asset if you had not chosen tax offsets under former section 73I of that Act.

(2) Assume:

(a) paragraph 40-65(6)(a) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 included both events set out in subsection (1) of this section; and

(b) subsections 40-65(6) and (7) of that Act deal with all 4 kinds of events in a corresponding way to the way that they deal with 2 kinds of events.