2016‑2017‑2018
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Bill 2018
No. , 2018
(Treasury)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Act 2008
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Act 2008 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Act 2008
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Act 2018.
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. The whole of this Act | At the same time as Schedule 1 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Making Sure Foreign Investors Pay Their Fair Share of Tax in Australia and Other Measures) Act 2018 commences. However, the provisions do not commence at all if that Schedule does not commence. | |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Act 2008
1 Section 2A
Insert:
non‑concessional MIT income has the same meaning as in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.
2 Paragraph 4(1)(a)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(a) if the entity is a resident of an information exchange country:
(i) 15% for fund payments (except to the extent mentioned in subparagraph (ii) or (iii)); or
(ii) 10% for fund payments, to the extent that they are, or are attributable to, fund payments from a clean building managed investment trust (except to the extent mentioned in subparagraph (iii)); or
(iii) 30% for fund payments, to the extent that they are attributable to non‑concessional MIT income; or