Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures) Act 2019 (129 of 2019)
Schedule 2 Additional capital gains discount for affordable housing
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
2 At the end of Subdivision 115-B
Add:
115-125 Investors disposing of property used for affordable housing
Object
(1) The object of this section is to increase the discount percentage to the extent that the *discount capital gain relates to a *dwelling used to *provide affordable housing.
When this section applies
(2) This section applies to a *discount capital gain if:
(a) you are an individual; and
(b) either:
(i) you make the discount capital gain from a *CGT event happening in relation to a *CGT asset that is your *ownership interest in a *dwelling; or
(ii) because of section 115-215, Division 102 applies to you as if you had made the discount capital gain for a *capital gain of a trust covered by subsection (3); and
(c) where subparagraph (b)(ii) applies - the trust's capital gain was made directly, or indirectly through one or more entities that are all covered by subsection (3), from a CGT event happening in relation to a CGT asset that is an ownership interest in a dwelling; and
(d) the dwelling was used to *provide affordable housing on at least 1095 days:
(i) before the CGT event; and
(ii) during your, or the relevant trustee's or partner's, *ownership period of that dwelling; and
(iii) on or after 1 January 2018.
The days mentioned in paragraph (d) need not be consecutive.
Note: 1095 days is the same as 3 years.
(3) This subsection covers the following:
(a) a trust, other than a *superannuation fund or a public unit trust (within the meaning of section 102P of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936);
(b) a *managed investment trust;
(c) a partnership.
Discount percentage
(4) The percentage resulting from this section is the sum of:
(a) the *discount percentage that would apply to the *discount capital gain apart from this section; and
(b) the result (expressed as a percentage) of subsection (5).
(5) Work out the following:
where:
affordable housing days means the number of days during that *ownership period (see paragraph (2)(d)) of the *dwelling, and on or after 1 January 2018, on which:
(a) the dwelling was used to *provide affordable housing; and
(b) you were neither a foreign resident nor a *temporary resident.
total ownership days means the number of days during that *ownership period (see paragraph (2)(d)) of the *dwelling, less the number of days after 8 May 2012 during that ownership period that you were a foreign resident or a *temporary resident.
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