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INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 713.725

Treatment of certain assets and liabilities of general insurance companies

  (1)   This section applies if a * general insurance company becomes or ceases to be a * subsidiary member of a * consolidated group.

  (2)   If the * general insurance company becomes a * subsidiary member of the group:

  (a)   in working out the step 2 amount for the purposes of the table in section   705 - 60, reduce that amount by the sum of the amount of each thing mentioned in subsection   (4); and

  (b)   in working out the * tax cost setting amount of a thing mentioned in subsection   (4) for the purposes of section   705 - 35, treat the * market value of the thing as zero.

  (3)   If the * general insurance company ceases to be a * subsidiary member of the group:

  (a)   in working out the step 4 amount for the purposes of the table in section   711 - 20, reduce that amount by the sum of the amount of each thing mentioned in subsection   (4); and

  (b)   for the purposes of section   711 - 25, treat the * terminating value of a thing mentioned in subsection   (4) as zero.

  (4)   The things are the * general insurance company's:

  (a)   deferred acquisition costs in relation to the company's unearned premium reserve; and

  (b)   deferred reinsurance expenses in relation to the company's unearned premium reserve; and

  (c)   recoveries receivable in relation to the company's * outstanding claims.

  (a)   are resident in Australia; and

  (b)   are wholly - owned subsidiaries of the head company (either directly or through other companies, trusts and partnerships).

Losses transferred to the head company of a consolidated group under Subdivision   707 - A can be utilised for an income year only against a fraction of the income or gains remaining after the company has utilised other losses and deductions.

  Note:   This Subdivision does not apply if the joining entity is a designated infrastructure project entity just before the transfer and the head company is a designated infrastructure project entity just after the transfer: see section   415 - 45.

  (a)   has for a period been owed to a member of a consolidated group; and

  (b)   has for another period been owed to an entity that was not a member of that group;

Method statement

Step 1.   Add up:

  (a)   each amount settled on the trust before or at the joining time; and

  (b)   the * market value of each item of property settled on the trust before or at the joining time, worked out as at when the item was settled;

  except to the extent that that amount or market value forms part of the * cost base of a * membership interest in the trust that was taken into account in working out the step 1 amount under section   705 - 65.

Step 2.   Work out how much of the step 1 amount would have been paid in respect of the discretionary interests if, at the joining time:

  (a)   the entire trust capital and trust income had been realised and distributed; and

  (b)   the trust had ended.

  Note:   This may involve determining how a power of appointment would have been exercised. Section   713 - 50 lists matters to have regard to in determining this.

Step 3.   Reduce the step 2 amount by so much of it as:

  (a)   would have been included in the assessable income of any * member of the trust who owned any of the discretionary interests at the joining time; or

  (b)   would have been taken into account in working out a * capital gain or * capital loss made by such a member.

Step 4.   Work out how much of the step 1 amount consists of one or more of these:

  (a)   an amount settled on the trust directly by the * head company of the * consolidated group (whether or not the group was in existence when the amount or item was settled on the trust);

  (b)   an amount settled on the trust directly by any other entity not excluded by subsection   (3) (which covers entities that are not independent and unconnected donors to the trust);

  (c)   the * market value of an item of property settled on the trust directly by the head company;

  (d)   the market value of an item of property settled on the trust directly by any other entity not excluded by subsection   (3).

Step 5.   The step 1 amount worked out under section   705 - 65 is increased by the lesser of:

  (a)   the step 3 amount worked out under this method statement; and

  (b)   the step 4 amount worked out under this method statement.

  (a)   an entity that is a partner in a partnership becomes a subsidiary member of a consolidated group;

  (b)   a partnership becomes, or ceases to be, a subsidiary member of a consolidated group.

  (a)   a life insurance company that becomes, or ceases to be, a member of a consolidated group; and

  (b)   the head company of a consolidated group where a life insurance company is a subsidiary member of the group.

 

Table of Subdivisions

715 - A   Treatment of unrealised losses existing when ownership or control of a company changes before or during consolidation

715 - B   How Subdivision   165 - CD applies to consolidated groups and leaving entities

715 - C   Common rules for the purposes of Subdivisions   715 - A and 715 - B

715 - D   Treatment of company's deferred losses under Subdivision   170 - D on joining a consolidated group

715 - E   Interactions with Division   775 (Foreign currency gains and losses)

715 - F   Interactions with Division   230 (financial arrangements)

715 - G   How value shifting rules apply to a consolidated group

715 - H   Cancelling loss on realisation event for direct or indirect interest in a member of a consolidated group

715 - J   Entry history rule and choices

715 - K   Exit history rule and choices

715 - U   Effect on conduit foreign income

715 - V   Entity ceasing to be exempt from income tax on becoming subsidiary member of consolidated group

715 - W   Effect on arrangements where CGT roll - overs are obtained

Table of sections

Object

715 - 15   Object of this Subdivision

Effect on Subdivision   165 - CC of a company becoming a member of a consolidated group

715 - 25   Subdivision   165 - CC stops applying to earlier changeover time

715 - 30   Meaning of 165 - CC tagged asset

715 - 35   Meaning of final RUNL

165 - CC tagged assets that affect tax cost setting amounts

715 - 50   Step 1 amount is reduced if membership interest in subsidiary member is 165 - CC tagged asset and business continuity test is failed

715 - 55   Step 2 amount is affected if liability of subsidiary member is 165 - CC tagged asset of another group member and business continuity test is failed

165 - CC tagged assets that form loss denial pools of head company when consolidated group is formed

715 - 60   Assets that the head company already owns

715 - 70   Assets of subsidiary member that become those of head company

How Subdivision   165 - CC applies to consolidated groups

715 - 75   Extension of single entity rule and entry history rule

Effect on Subdivision   165 - CC of entity leaving consolidated group

715 - 80   Application of sections   715 - 85 to 715 - 110

715 - 85   First changeover time for leaving company at or after leaving time

715 - 90   How business continuity test applies if leaving time is changeover time for leaving company

715 - 95   If ownership and control of leaving entity have not changed since head company's last changeover time

715 - 100   First choice: adjustable values of leaving assets reduced to nil

715 - 105   Second choice: head company's final RUNL applied in reducing adjustable values of leaving assets that are loss assets

715 - 110   Third choice: loss denial pool of leaving entity created

Effect of assets in loss denial pool of head company becoming assets of leaving entity

715 - 120   What happens

715 - 125   First choice: adjustable values of leaving assets reduced to nil

715 - 130   Second choice: pool's loss denial balance applied in reducing adjustable values of leaving assets that are loss assets

715 - 135   Third choice: loss denial pool of leaving entity created

Effect of first and second choices on various kinds of assets

715 - 145   Effect of choice on adjustable value of leaving asset

General provisions about loss denial pools

715 - 155   When asset leaves pool

715 - 160   How loss denial balance is applied to losses realised on assets in pool

715 - 165   When pool ceases to exist

Choices under this Subdivision

715 - 175   When choice must be made

715 - 180   Head company to notify leaving entity of choice

715 - 185   Leaving entity may choose to cancel loss denial pool by reducing adjustable values of assets in the pool


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