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INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 205.70

Tax offset arising from franking deficit tax liabilities

When does the tax offset arise?

  (1)   A * corporate tax entity is entitled to a * tax offset for an income year for which it satisfies the * residency requirement (the relevant year ) if at least one of the following applies:

  (a)   the entity has incurred a liability to pay * franking deficit tax in the relevant year;

  (b)   the entity incurred such a liability in a previous income year for which it did not satisfy the residency requirement, and that liability has not been taken into account in working out a tax offset under this section;

  (c)   when the entity was last entitled to a tax offset under this section for a previous income year, some of the offset remained after applying section   63 - 10 (tax offset priority rules).

The amount of the tax offset

  (2)   Work out the amount of the * tax offset for the relevant year as follows:

Method statement

Step 1.   Work out the total amount of * franking deficit tax that is covered by paragraph   (1)(a).

  Then, subject to subsections   (5) and (6), reduce so much of it as is attributable to * franking debits to which subsection   (8) applies by 30% if that part exceeds 10% of the total amount of * franking credits that arose in the entity's * franking account for the relevant year.

Step 2.   Work out the total amount of * franking deficit tax that is covered by paragraph   (1)(b) for a previous income year.

  Then, subject to subsections   (5) and (6), reduce so much of it as is attributable to * franking debits to which subsection   (8) applies by 30% if that part exceeds 10% of the total amount of * franking credits that arose in the entity's * franking account for that previous income year.

Step 3.   Add up the results of step 2 for all the previous income years covered by paragraph   (1)(b).

Step 4.   Work out the remaining amount of a * tax offset covered by paragraph   (1)(c).

Step 5.   Add up the results of steps 1, 3 and 4. The result is the * tax offset to which the entity is entitled under this section for the relevant year.

Note:   This method statement is modified for certain late balancing entities: see section   205 - 70 of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997 .

Example:   The following apply to a corporate tax entity that satisfies the residency requirement for an income year:

  the entity's income tax liability for that year would be $100,000 if its tax offsets were disregarded;

  for that year, the entity has a tax offset of $60,000 under this section (the franking deficit offset ) and a tax offset of $80,000 in respect of foreign income tax paid by the entity (the foreign income tax offset ).

  Under section   63 - 10 (about tax offset priority rules), the foreign income tax offset must be applied before the franking deficit offset is applied. As a result, that offset and $20,000 of the franking deficit offset combine to reduce the entity's income tax liability to nil. The remaining $40,000 of the franking deficit offset will be included in a franking deficit offset for the next income year for which the entity satisfies the residency requirement.

Residency requirement

  (4)   To determine whether the entity satisfies the * residency requirement for the relevant year, section   205 - 25 has effect as if each of the following were an event specified in a relevant table for the purposes of that section:

  (a)   the entity incurring a liability to pay * franking deficit tax in the relevant year;

  (b)   the assessment of the entity's * income tax liability for the relevant year that is made on the * assessment day for that year.

30% reduction will generally not apply to private company's first year of tax liability

  (5)   The 30% reductions in steps 1 and 2 of the method statement in subsection   (2) do not apply in working out the amount of the * tax offset to which the entity is entitled for the relevant year if:

  (a)   the entity is a * private company for the relevant year; and

  (b)   if the company did not have the tax offset (but had all its other tax offsets) it would have had an * income tax liability for the relevant year; and

  (c)   the company has not had an income tax liability for any income year before the relevant year; and

  (d)   the amount of the liability referred to in paragraph   (b) is at least 90% of the amount of the * deficit in the company's * franking account at the end of the relevant year.

Commissioner's discretion

  (6)   The 30% reductions in steps 1 and 2 of the method statement in subsection   (2) do not apply in working out the amount of the * tax offset to which the entity is entitled for the relevant year if the Commissioner determines in writing, on application by the entity in the * approved form, that the excess referred to in those steps was due to events outside the control of the entity.

  (7)   A determination under subsection   (6) is not a legislative instrument.

Applicable franking debits

  (8)   This subsection applies to * franking debits in the * franking account of an entity:

  (a)   that arise under table item   1, 3, 5 or 6 in section   205 - 30 for an income year; and

  (b)   if the entity has franking debits covered by paragraph   (a) for that income year--that arise under table item   2 in that section for that income year.

 

Table of Subdivisions

  Guide to Division   207

207 - A   Effect of receiving a franked distribution generally

207 - B   Franked distribution received through certain partnerships and trustees

207 - C   Residency requirements for the general rule

207 - D   No gross - up or tax offset where distribution would not be taxed

207 - E   Exceptions to the rules in Subdivision   207 - D

207 - F   No gross - up or tax offset where the imputation system has been manipulated

Table of sections

207 - 5   Overview



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