Section 65Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth)

‑10  What this Division is about

This Division sets out the rules about carrying forward excess tax offsets to later income years.

You can only carry forward certain tax offsets.

Before you can apply a tax offset to reduce the amount of income tax that you will pay in a later year, you must apply it to reduce certain amounts of net exempt income.

The same rules that prevent companies from utilising certain losses of earlier income years prevent companies from applying tax offsets that they have carried forward.

Table of sections

Operative provisions

65‑30 Amount carried forward

65‑35 How to apply carried forward tax offsets

65‑40 When a company cannot apply a tax offset

65‑50 Effect of bankruptcy

65‑55 Deduction for amounts paid for debts incurred before bankruptcy

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