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Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 4) Bill 2022

2022

 

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time

 

 

 

 

Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 4) Bill 2022

 

No.      , 2022

 

(Treasury)

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to taxation, superannuation and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, and for related purposes

   

   



Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1

2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1—Digital games tax offset                                                                          4

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997                                                                              4

Schedule 2—Taxation treatment of digital currency                                     32

Part 1—Main amendments                                                                                        32

A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999                                      32

A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Regulations 2019                       32

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997                                                                            34

Part 2—Application of amendments                                                                    35

A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Regulations 2019                       35

Schedule 3—Reducing the compliance burden of record keeping for fringe benefits tax            36

Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986                                                              36

Schedule 4—Skills and Training Boost                                                                   38

Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997                                                   38

Schedule 5—Technology investment boost                                                           42

Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997                                                   42

Schedule 6—Financial reporting and auditing requirements for superannuation entities          47

Part 1—Amendment of the Corporations Act 2001                                     47

Corporations Act 2001                                                                                               47

Part 2—Amendments of other Acts                                                                      87

Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001                            87

Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993                                                 87

Schedule 7—Deductible gift recipients                                                                 119

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997                                                                          119

Schedule 8—Amendment of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation Act 2012 121

Clean Energy Finance Corporation Act 2012                                                     121

Schedule 9—Taxation of military superannuation benefits: Reversing the Douglas decision   123

Income Tax Assessment (1997 Act) Regulations 2021                                       123

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997                                                                          126

Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997                                                 128

 

 



A Bill for an Act to amend the law relating to taxation, superannuation and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1   Short title

                   This Act is the Treasury Laws Amendment (2022 Measures No. 4) Act 2022 .

2   Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

2.  Schedules 1 to 5

The first 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October to occur after the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

3.  Schedule 6

1 July 2023.

1 July 2023

4.  Schedule 7

The first 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October to occur after the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

5.  Schedules 8 and 9

The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

 

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3   Schedules

                   Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Note 1:       The provisions of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Regulations 2019 amended or inserted by this Act, and any other provisions of that instrument, may be amended or repealed by regulations made under the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (see subsection 13(5) of the Legislation Act 2003 ).

Note 2:       The provisions of the Income Tax Assessment (1997 Act) Regulations 2021 amended or inserted by this Act, and any other provisions of that instrument, may be amended or repealed by regulations made under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (see subsection 13(5) of the Legislation Act 2003 ).