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INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 405.5

Special rate of income tax on your above - average special professional income

  (1)   If you have above - average special professional income, the Income Tax Rates Act 1986 generally sets a special rate so that the amount of income tax you pay on the top 4 / 5 of your above - average special professional income is effectively 4 times what you would pay on the bottom 1 / 5 of that income at basic rates.

Note :   Your overall income tax will be less only if 2 marginal rates of income tax would apply to your above - average special professional income if it were treated as the top slice of your taxable income.

  (2)   The following diagram illustrates how the special rate works.

Diagram showing income tax treatment of above-average special professional income. Tax on the top 80% of above-average special professional income is 4 times the tax on the bottom 20%. This means that your overall income tax is reduced if lower rates of tax apply to the bottom 20% than to the top 80%.



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