Source: Taxation In Australia Journal Article
Published Date: 1 Mar 2013
When a private company makes a loan to a shareholder or an associate during an income year, Div 7A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (Cth) can deem the company to have paid a dividend. The dividend is assessable to that shareholder/associate. However, no deemed dividend will arise if the loan is either repaid or placed under a complying loan agreement before the due date for lodgment of the company’s income tax return for that year (or the actual date of lodgment, if earlier). A common way of making each year’s minimum repayment on a Div 7A loan is to set it off against a dividend of the same amount declared by the company.
This article sets out an alternative approach whereby the loan is fully repaid at the outset in the same manner, and the client borrows from the bank to pay the top-up tax arising on the dividend. This may actually leave your client better off.
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