Small business restructure roll-over - opportunities and traps
Source: Taxation In Australia Journal Article
Published Date: 1 Apr 2016
As part of the 2015-16 Budget, the government committed to providing greater flexibility for small businesses when changing their legal structure. To this end, the Tax Laws Amendment (Small Business Restructure Roll-over) Act 2016 was enacted to enable a new small business restructure roll-over (SBR roll-over) that allows small businesses whose aggregate annual turnover is less than $2m to restructure their business asset holdings without income tax and CGT liabilities. In light of the upcoming 1 July 2016 commencement date, this article examines the opportunities and traps of the new SBR roll-over, how the roll-over works, the conditions that must be satisfied to claim the roll-over, the genuine restructure and ultimate economic ownership requirements, and anti-avoidance provisions that need to be taken into account when using the roll-over.
The article also provides examples where the roll-over might be appropriate, and considers stamp duty and GST issues, and the exemptions or concessions that may be available.
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- Published By: Mark West CTA, Dung Lam CTA
- Published On:1 Apr 2016
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