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| Change To Australian Forestry Managed Investment Scheme Tax Rules |
by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Australia’s Assistant Treasurer, Nick Sherry, has released for public
consultation draft legislation to change a key tax rule for forestry managed
investment schemes (MISs) that will protect investors in recently collapsed schemes.
The four-year holding rules were introduced in 2007 as part of a package to
regulate secondary trading of forestry interests. The government had previously
announced that it was aware that the collapse, earlier this year, of MISs managed
by Timbercorp and Great Southern was expected to lead to a number of forestry
MISs being wound up or restructured.
That could cause investors to fail the current requirement of having held their
interest in the MISs for four years as a condition of an up-front tax deduction.
"With this measure, the government is protecting around 19,000 investors
in collapsed forestry managed investment schemes from an unintended adverse
tax outcome," Sherry said.
The draft legislation amends the four-year rule to allow an investor's deduction
to stand if a capital gains tax (CGT) event happens because of circumstances
outside the initial investor's control, and the initial investor could not have
reasonably foreseen this CGT event happening, at the time they acquired the
forestry interest.
The rule applies to CGT events from July 1, 2007, and the amendments in the draft
legislation would take effect from that date.
The draft legislation also amends the promoter penalty provisions to ensure
the law continues to deter forestry MISs covered by Australian Taxation Office
product rulings from being implemented in a way that is materially different
from that described in the product ruling.
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Forest Finance and Film Finance in a number of key jurisdictions, is available in the Lowtax Library at http://www.lowtaxlibrary.com/asp/subs_reports.asp
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