Foreign Investment Funds
It did not take long to discover that the Controlled Foreign Company and Transferor Trust provisions were being subverted and so another swag of anti avoidance provisions were inserted into the tax law.
SECT <<529 Foreign investment fund income to be included in
assessable income
(1) The circumstances in which this section applies to a taxpayer in relation to a
FIF or FLP in respect of a notional accounting period of the FIF or FLP are as
set out in section 485.
(2) If foreign investment fund income accrued to a taxpayer to whom this
section applies from a FIF or a FLP in respect of a notional accounting period
of the FIF or FLP, the taxpayer's assessable income of the year of income in
which the notional accounting period ended includes:
(a) if the taxpayer was a resident throughout the whole of the notional
accounting period--the foreign investment fund income; or
(b) if the taxpayer was a resident throughout a part or parts of the
notional accounting period--so much of the foreign investment fund
income as is worked out using the formula:
In the formula in paragraph (b):
foreign investment fund income means the amount of the foreign investment
fund income that accrued to the taxpayer from the FIF or FLP in respect of the
notional accounting period.
number of days of residence means the number of days in the notional
accounting period throughout which the taxpayer was a resident.
total number of days means the number of days in the notional accounting
period.
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