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INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 832.235

Extended operation of this Subdivision in relation to concessional foreign taxes

  (1)   This section applies in working out, for the purposes of this Subdivision, whether an amount is * subject to foreign income tax.

  (2)   An amount of income or profits of an entity is treated as if it were not * subject to foreign income tax if:

  (a)   apart from this section, the amount would be * subject to foreign income tax; and

  (b)   the rate of * foreign income tax (except a tax covered by subsection   832 - 130(7)) (the lower rate ) on the amount under the law of the relevant foreign country is lower than the rate (the ordinary rate ) that would ordinarily be imposed on interest income derived by an entity of that kind in the foreign country.

Amount of a deduction/non - inclusion mismatch

  (3)   However, for the purposes of working out the amount of a * deduction/non - inclusion mismatch that is affected by this section, the amount of a payment that is treated by this section as not being * subject to foreign income tax is to be discounted by multiplying it by the following fraction:

Start formula start fraction Lower rate over Ordinary rate end fraction end formula

where:

"lower rate" means the lower rate mentioned in paragraph   (2)(b).

"ordinary rate" means the ordinary rate mentioned in paragraph   (2)(b).


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