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      <p>Tax Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Act 2015</p>
      <p>No. 170, 2015</p>
      <p>An Act to amend the law relating to taxation, and for related purposes</p>
      <p>Contents</p>
      <p>1	Short title	1</p>
      <p>2	Commencement	2</p>
      <p>3	Schedules	2</p>
      <p>Schedule 1—Significant global entities	3</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997	3</p>
      <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953	7</p>
      <p>Schedule 2—Multinational anti-avoidance	10</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936	10</p>
      <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953	14</p>
      <p>Schedule 3—Scheme penalties for significant global entities	15</p>
      <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953	15</p>
      <p>Schedule 4—Country-by-Country reporting	16</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997	16</p>
      <p>An Act to amend the law relating to taxation, and for related purposes</p>
      <p>[<i>Assented to 11 December 2015</i>]</p>
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        <p>The Parliament of Australia enacts:</p>
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      <section eId="sec-1">
        <num>1</num>
        <heading>Short title</heading>
        <content>
          <p>		This Act may be cited as the<i> </i><i>Tax Laws </i><i>Amendment (Combating Multinational </i><i>Tax A</i><i>voidance) </i><i>Act 201</i><i>5</i>.</p>
        </content>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-2">
        <num>2</num>
        <heading>Commencement</heading>
        <subsection eId="sec-2__subsec-1">
          <num>1</num>
          <content>
            <p>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.</p>
          </content>
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            <tr>
              <th>Commencement information</th>
              <th>Commencement information</th>
              <th>Commencement information</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Column 1</td>
              <td>Column 2</td>
              <td>Column 3</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>Provisions</td>
              <td>Commencement</td>
              <td>Date/Details</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td>1.  The whole of this Act</td>
              <td>The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.</td>
              <td>11 December 2015</td>
            </tr>
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          <authorialNote placement="end" eId="note-1" marker="1">
            <content>
              <p>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.</p>
            </content>
          </authorialNote>
        </subsection>
        <subsection eId="sec-2__subsec-2">
          <num>2</num>
          <content>
            <p>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.</p>
          </content>
        </subsection>
      </section>
      <section eId="sec-3">
        <num>3</num>
        <heading>Schedules</heading>
        <content>
          <p>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.</p>
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        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-1">
          <heading>Significant global entities</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>After subsection 960-50(7)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p>from one or more sources that are not *associates of the entity, and not the entity itself, or from one or more sources specified by <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> in a notice to the entity; and</p>
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            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-1__subclause-7A">
              <num>7A</num>
              <content>
                <p>Despite subsections (6) and (7), an amount that is relevant for the purposes of quantifying, for the purposes of <ref href="#sec-960">section 960</ref>-565, the *annual global income of a *global parent entity as shown in *global financial statements for the entity is to be translated into Australian currency at the average exchange rate applicable for the period for which the statements are prepared.</p>
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            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-1__subclause-7B">
              <num>7B</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of subsection (7A):</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-1__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity must obtain:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-1__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>all of the exchange rates that it will use to work out the average exchange rate; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-1__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>an average exchange rate that has been worked out for the period referred to in that subsection;</p>
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            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-1__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity must use the average exchange rate so worked out in translating into Australian currency any amount referred to in that subsection that is relevant to that period.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-1__subclause-7C">
              <num>7C</num>
              <content>
                <p>A notice under paragraph (7B)(a) is not a legislative instrument.</p>
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            <num>2</num>
            <heading>After subsection 960-50(9)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
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              <num>9A</num>
              <content>
                <p>Regulations made for the purposes of subsection (8) do not apply to translating an amount into Australian currency under subsection (7A), unless they provide otherwise.</p>
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          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-3">
            <num>3</num>
            <heading>At the end of Division 960</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>Guide to Subdivision 960-U</p>
            </content>
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          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-960-550">
            <num>960-550</num>
            <heading>What this Subdivision is about</heading>
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              <p>Generally speaking, a significant global entity is:</p>
              <p>Table of sections</p>
              <p>Operative provisions</p>
              <p>960-555	Meaning of <i>significant global entity</i></p>
              <p>960-560	Meaning of <i>global parent entity</i></p>
              <p>960-565	Meaning of <i>annual global income</i></p>
              <p>960-570	Meaning of <i>global financial statements</i></p>
              <p>Operative provisions</p>
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              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>a global parent entity with an annual global income of $1 billion or more; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-550__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>any member of such a global parent entity’s group.</p>
              </content>
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            <num>960-555</num>
            <heading>Meaning of significant global entity</heading>
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              <num>1</num>
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                <p>	(1)	An entity is a <b><i>significant global entity</i></b> for a period if the entity is a *global parent entity:</p>
              </content>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>whose *annual global income for the period is $1 billion or more; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>in relation to whom <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> makes a determination under subsection (3) for the period.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(2)	An entity is also a <b><i>significant global entity</i></b> for a period if:</p>
              </content>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity is a member of a group of entities that are consolidated for accounting purposes as a single group; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>one of the other members of the group is a *global parent entity:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>whose *annual global income for the period is $1 billion or more; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>in relation to whom <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> makes a determination under subsection (3) for the period.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(3)	The Commissioner may make a determination under this subsection in relation to a *global parent entity<b> </b>for a period if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>*global financial statements have not been prepared for the entity for the period; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>on the basis of the information available to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role>, <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> reasonably believes that, if such statements had been prepared for the period, the entity’s *annual global income for the period would have been $1 billion or more.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <content>
              <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> must give a notice of the determination to the global parent entity, or to another entity that becomes a *significant global entity as a result of the determination.</p>
              <p>the right of objection under subsection (4) of this section is unaffected, but the outcome of that objection has no effect on the assessment or on the outcome of the taxation objection.</p>
              <p>Note:	Section 14ZVA of the <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i> excludes from a taxation objection to an assessment any grounds (or potential grounds) for an objection to a determination under subsection (3) of this section.</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(4)	An entity who is dissatisfied with a determination made in relation to the entity may object against the determination in the manner set out in <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i>.<ref href="#part-IV">Part IV</ref>C of the </p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>However, if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(a)	there has been a taxation objection (<i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i>) against an *assessment relating to the entity; and<ref href="#sec-14Z">within the meaning of section 14Z</ref>L of the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(b)	the assessment involved the application of <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</i> (schemes that limit a taxable presence in Australia) in relation to the entity;<ref href="#sec-177D">section 177D</ref>A of the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>A determination under subsection (3) is not a legislative instrument.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-960-555__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(7)	Section 175 of the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</i> (validity) applies to a determination under subsection (3) of this section in the same way as it applies to an *assessment.</p>
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          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-960-560">
            <num>960-560</num>
            <heading>Meaning of global parent entity</heading>
            <content>
              <p>		A <b><i>global parent entity</i></b> is an entity that, according to:</p>
              <p>is not controlled by another entity.</p>
              <p>Note:	A global parent entity may be a single entity that is not a member of a group of entities.</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-560__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>*accounting principles; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-560__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if accounting principles do not apply in relation to the entity—commercially accepted principles relating to accounting;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
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          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-960-565">
            <num>960-565</num>
            <heading>Meaning of annual global income</heading>
            <content>
              <p>		The <b><i>annual global income</i></b> of a *global parent entity for a period is:</p>
              <p>as shown in the latest *global financial statements for the entity for the period.</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-565__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the entity is a member of a group of entities that are consolidated for accounting purposes as a single group—the total annual income of all the members of the group; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-565__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>otherwise—the total annual income of the entity;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
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          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-960-570">
            <num>960-570</num>
            <heading>Meaning of global financial statements</heading>
            <content>
              <p>		<b><i>Global financial statements</i></b> for a *global parent entity for a period (the <b><i>relevant period</i></b>) are the financial statements that:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-570__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>have been prepared and audited in relation to that entity, or that entity and other entities, in accordance with:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-570__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>*accounting principles and *auditing principles; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-570__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>if such principles do not apply—commercially accepted principles, relating to accounting and auditing, that ensure the statements give a true and fair view of the financial position and performance of that entity (or that entity and the other entities on a consolidated basis); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-570__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>are for the most recent period ending:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-570__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>no later than the end of the relevant period; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-960-570__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>no earlier than 12 months before the start of the relevant period.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-4">
            <num>4</num>
            <heading>Subsection 995-1(1)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p><b><i>annual global income</i></b> has the meaning given by section 960-565.</p>
              <p><b><i>global financial statements</i></b> has the meaning given by section 960-570.</p>
              <p><b><i>global parent entity</i></b> has the meaning given by section 960-560.</p>
              <p><b><i>significant global entity</i></b> has the meaning given by section 960-555.</p>
              <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953</p>
            </content>
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            <num>4A</num>
            <heading>Paragraphs 3C(1)(a) and (b)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the paragraphs, substitute:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-4A__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity has total income equal to or exceeding $100 million for the income year and, at the end of the income year:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-4A__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity is not an Australian resident that is a private company for the income year; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-4A__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity is a member of a wholly-owned group that has a foreign resident ultimate holding company; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-4A__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the percentage of foreign shareholding in the entity is greater than 50%; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-4A__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity has total income equal to or exceeding $200 million for the income year and, at the end of the income year, the entity is an Australian resident that is a private company for the income year.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-4B">
            <num>4B</num>
            <heading>After section 3C</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
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          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA">
            <num>3CA</num>
            <heading>Reporting of information by significant global entities</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>This section applies to a corporate tax entity for an income year if:</p>
              </content>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity is a significant global entity for the income year; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>at the end of the income year, the entity is:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>an Australian resident; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(ii)	a foreign resident who operates an Australian permanent establishment (within the meaning of <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</i>); and<ref href="#part-IV">Part IV</ref>A of the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity does not lodge a general purpose financial statement for the financial year most closely corresponding to the income year:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(ii)	within the time provided under subsection 319(3) of the <i>Corporations Act 2001</i> for lodgement of a report for that financial year.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>A corporate tax entity to which this section applies for an income year must, on or before the day by which the entity is required to lodge its income tax return for the income year with <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role>, give to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> a general purpose financial statement for the financial year most closely corresponding to the income year.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <content>
              <p>Note:	Section 286-75 in Schedule 1 provides an administrative penalty for breach of this subsection.</p>
              <p>Note:	Under <i>Corporations Act 2001</i>, a person may inspect, and require to be given a copy or extract of, any document lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.<ref href="#sec-1274">section 1274</ref> of the </p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> must give a copy of the statement to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(4)	The giving of the copy to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission under subsection (3) is taken, for the purposes of the <i>Corporations Act 2001</i>, to be lodgement of the document with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of this section, a general purpose financial statement in relation to an entity:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>must be prepared in accordance with:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the accounting principles; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>if accounting principles do not apply in relation to the entity—commercially accepted principles relating to accounting; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the entity is a member of a group of entities that are consolidated for accounting purposes as a single group—must relate to:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity and some or all of the other members of the group.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-3CA__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(6)	An expression used in this section that is also used in the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i> has the same meaning as in that Act.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-5">
            <num>5</num>
            <heading>Section 14ZVA</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the section, substitute:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-14ZVA">
            <num>14ZVA</num>
            <heading>Limited objection rights because of other objections</heading>
            <content>
              <p>If there has been a taxation objection against:</p>
              <p>the right of objection under this Part against an assessment, or against a decision made under an indirect tax law or an excise law, relating to the matter ruled or determined is limited to a right to object on grounds that neither were, nor could have been, grounds for the taxation objection against the ruling or determination.</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-14ZVA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>a private ruling; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-14ZVA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(b)	a determination under subsection 960-555(3) of the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i>;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-6">
            <num>6</num>
            <heading>Application of amendment—item 4A</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendment made by item 4A applies in relation to an entity for the 2013-14 income year and each later income year.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-7">
            <num>7</num>
            <heading>Application of amendment—item 4B</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendment made by item 4B of this Schedule applies in relation to income years commencing on or after <date date="2016-07-01">1 July 2016</date>.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
        </hcontainer>
      </attachment>
      <attachment>
        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-2">
          <heading>Multinational anti-avoidance</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>Subsection 177A(1)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p><b><i>associate </i></b>has the same meaning as in Part X.</p>
              <p><b><i>Australian customer</i></b>, of a foreign entity, means another entity who:</p>
              <p><b><i>Australian entity</i></b> has the same meaning as in Part X.</p>
              <p><b><i>Australian permanent establishment</i></b> of an entity means:</p>
              <p>a permanent establishment (within the meaning of that agreement) in Australia; or</p>
              <p><b><i>entity</i></b> has the meaning given by section 960-100 of the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i>.</p>
              <p><b><i>foreign entity</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 995-1(1) of the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i>.</p>
              <p><b><i>foreign law</i></b> has the meaning given by subsection 995-1(1) of the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i>.</p>
              <p><b><i>global group</i></b> means a group of entities, at least one of which is a foreign entity, that are consolidated for accounting purposes as a single group.</p>
              <p><b><i>significant global entity</i></b> has the meaning given by section 960-555 of the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i>.</p>
              <p><b><i>supply</i></b> has the meaning given by section 9-10 of the GST Act, but does not include any of the following, or of any combination of 2 or more of the following:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>is in Australia, or is an Australian entity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the foreign entity is a member of a global group—is not a member of that global group.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>if:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(i)	the entity is a resident in a country that has entered into an international tax agreement (<i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i>) with Australia; and<ref href="#sec-995">within the meaning of subsection 995</ref>-1(1) of the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>that agreement contains a permanent establishment article (within the meaning of that subsection);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>otherwise—a permanent establishment of the person in Australia.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>a supply of an equity interest in an entity;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>a supply of a debt interest in an entity;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>a supply of an option for:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>a supply of a kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b); or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>any combination of 2 or more such supplies.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>Subsection 177A(5)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After “this Part”, insert “(other than <ref href="#sec-177D">section 177D</ref>A)”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-3">
            <num>3</num>
            <heading>At the end of section 177CB</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-3__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsection (4) applies in relation to the scheme as if references in that subsection to the operation of this Act included references to the operation of any foreign law relating to taxation:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-3__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>if this Part applies to the scheme because of <ref href="#sec-177D">section 177D</ref>A; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-3__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>for the purposes of determining whether this Part applies to the scheme because of <ref href="#sec-177D">section 177D</ref>A.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-4">
            <num>4</num>
            <heading>After section 177D</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA">
            <num>177DA</num>
            <heading>Schemes that limit a taxable presence in Australia</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Scheme for a purpose including obtaining a tax benefit etc.</p>
              <p>whether or not that person who entered into or carried out the scheme or any part of the scheme is the relevant taxpayer or is the other taxpayer or one of the other taxpayers; and</p>
              <p>in connection with the scheme.</p>
              <p>Have regard to certain matters</p>
              <p>Deferral of foreign tax liabilities</p>
              <p>Tax benefit</p>
              <p>Commissioner not required to enquire into foreign tax matters</p>
              <p>Schemes outside Australia</p>
              <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>Without limiting <ref href="#sec-177D">section 177D</ref>, this Part also applies to a scheme if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>under, or in connection with, the scheme:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>a foreign entity makes a supply to an Australian customer of the foreign entity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>activities are undertaken in Australia directly in connection with the supply; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>some or all of those activities are undertaken by an Australian entity who, or are undertaken at or through an Australian permanent establishment of an entity who, is an associate of or is commercially dependent on the foreign entity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-iv">
              <num>iv</num>
              <content>
                <p>the foreign entity derives ordinary income, or statutory income, from the supply; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-v">
              <num>v</num>
              <content>
                <p>some or all of that income is not attributable to an Australian permanent establishment of the foreign entity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>it would be concluded (having regard to the matters in subsection (2)) that the person, or one of the persons, who entered into or carried out the scheme or any part of the scheme did so for a principal purpose of, or for more than one principal purpose that includes a purpose of:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(i)	enabling a taxpayer (a <b><i>relevant taxpayer</i></b>) to obtain a tax benefit, or both to obtain a tax benefit and to reduce one or more of the relevant taxpayer’s liabilities to tax under a foreign law, in connection with the scheme; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>enabling the relevant taxpayer and another taxpayer (or other taxpayers) each to obtain a tax benefit, or both to obtain a tax benefit and to reduce one or more of their liabilities to tax under a foreign law, in connection with the scheme;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the foreign entity is a significant global entity for a year of income in which the relevant taxpayer, or one or more other taxpayers, would (but for this Part):</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>obtain a tax benefit; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>reduce one or more of their liabilities to tax under a foreign law;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), have regard to the following matters:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the matters in subsection 177D(2);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the extent to which the activities that contribute to bringing about the contract for the supply are performed, and are able to be performed, by:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the foreign entity; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>another entity referred to in subparagraph (1)(a)(iii); or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>any other entities;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the result, in relation to the operation of any foreign law relating to taxation, that (but for this Part) would be achieved by the scheme.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), a deferral of a taxpayer’s liabilities to tax under a foreign law is taken to be a reduction of those liabilities, unless there are reasonable commercial grounds for the deferral.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>Despite subsection (1), this Part applies to the scheme because of this section only if the relevant taxpayer has obtained, or would but for <ref href="#sec-177F">section 177F</ref> obtain, a tax benefit in connection with the scheme.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> is required to have regard to a matter referred to in paragraph (2)(c) only so far as information relevant to that matter is available to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role>, and is not required to acquire further information in order to have regard to that matter.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-177DA__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>This section applies whether or not the scheme has been or is entered into or carried out in Australia or outside Australia or partly in Australia and partly outside Australia.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-5">
            <num>5</num>
            <heading>After subparagraph 284-145(1)(b)(i) in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-5__para-ia">
              <num>ia</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(ia)	for a scheme to which <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</i> applies because of section 177DA of that Act—an entity that (alone or with others) entered into or carried out the scheme, or part of it, did so for a principal purpose of, or for more than one principal purpose that includes a purpose of, that entity or another entity getting a scheme benefit from the scheme; or<ref href="#part-IV">Part IV</ref>A of the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-6">
            <num>6</num>
            <heading>Paragraph 284-145(2A)(b) in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit “subparagraph (1)(b)(i) is not”, substitute “neither subparagraph (1)(b)(i) nor subparagraph (1)(b)(ia) is”.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-7">
            <num>7</num>
            <heading>Application</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-7__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>The amendments made by this Schedule apply on or after <date date="2016-01-01">1 January 2016</date> in connection with a scheme, whether or not the scheme was entered into, or was commenced to be carried out, before that day.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-7__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>Despite subitem (1), the amendments made by this Schedule do not apply in relation to tax benefits that a taxpayer derives before that day.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
        </hcontainer>
      </attachment>
      <attachment>
        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-3">
          <heading>Scheme penalties for significant global entities</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>At the end of section 284-155 in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-1__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>However, the amount of the penalty is twice the amount worked out under subsection (1) or (2) of this section if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-1__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>you are a *significant global entity during an income year that consists of, or includes all or part of, the accounting period to which your *scheme shortfall amount relates; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-1__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>it is not *reasonably arguable that the adjustment provision does not apply.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>Application</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendment made by this Schedule applies in relation to any scheme benefit that an entity gets in relation to an income year commencing on or after <date date="2015-07-01">1 July 2015</date>, whether the scheme to which the scheme benefit relates was entered into, or commenced to be carried out, before, on or after the commencement of that income year.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
        </hcontainer>
      </attachment>
      <attachment>
        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-4">
          <heading>Country-by-Country reporting</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>At the end of Division 815</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>Guide to Subdivision 815-E</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-815-350">
            <num>815-350</num>
            <heading>What this Subdivision is about</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Significant global entities must give <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> statements under this Subdivision.</p>
              <p>Note:	This Subdivision enables the implementation of measures issued by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development relating to transfer pricing documentation and country-by-country reporting (including Action 13 of the Action Plan on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting of the G20 and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)</p>
              <p>Table of sections</p>
              <p>Operative provisions</p>
              <p>815-355	Requirement to give statements</p>
              <p>815-360	Replacement reporting periods</p>
              <p>815-365	Exemptions</p>
              <p>Operative provisions</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355">
            <num>815-355</num>
            <heading>Requirement to give statements</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>You must give to <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> a statement of each of the kinds referred to in subsection (3), in the *approved form, in relation to an income year if:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>you were a *significant global entity during a period that includes the whole or a part of the income year that preceded that income year; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>you are, during that income year, any of the following:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>an Australian resident;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(ii)	a resident trust estate for the purposes of <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</i>;<ref href="#dvs-6">Division 6</ref> of <ref href="#part-II">Part II</ref>I of the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>a partnership that has at least one partner who is an Australian resident;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-iv">
              <num>iv</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(iv)	a foreign resident who operates an Australian permanent establishment (within the meaning of <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</i>);<ref href="#part-IV">Part IV</ref>A of the </p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-v">
              <num>v</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(v)	a non-resident trust estate (<i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</i>) that operates an Australian permanent establishment (within the meaning of Part IVA of that Act);<ref href="#sec-102A">within the meaning of section 102A</ref>AB of the </p>
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              <num>vi</num>
              <content>
                <p>a partnership that operates an Australian permanent establishment (within the meaning of that Part); and</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>you are not exempted under <ref href="#sec-815">section 815</ref>-365 from giving the statement; and</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>you are not included in a class of entities prescribed by the regulations.</p>
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              <p>Note:	Under <role refersTo="#commissioner">the Commissioner</role> may allow you to give statements in relation to a 12 month period other than an income year.<ref href="#sec-815">section 815</ref>-360, </p>
              <p>Note:	Section 388-55 in Schedule 1 to the <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i> allows the Commissioner to defer the time for giving the statement.</p>
              <p>Note:	These statements correspond to the following in Annexes I, II and III to Chapter V set out in the Guidance on Transfer Pricing Documentation and Country-by-country Reporting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the G20:</p>
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              <num>2</num>
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                <p>You must give the statement <quantity refersTo="#deadline">within 12 months</quantity> after the end of the period to which it relates.</p>
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              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>The statements are to be of the following kinds:</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>a statement relating to the global operations and activities, and the pricing policies relevant to transfer pricing, of:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>you; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>if you were a *significant global entity during the preceding income year by virtue of your membership of a group of entities—the other members of that group;</p>
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            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>a statement relating to your operations, activities, dealings and transactions;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>a statement relating to the allocation between countries of the income and activities of, and taxes paid by:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>you; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>if subparagraph (a)(ii) applies—the other members of that group.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>a statement under paragraph (a) corresponds to the master file (see Annexe I);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>a statement under paragraph (b) corresponds to the local file (see Annexe II);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-355__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>a statement under paragraph (c) corresponds to the country-by-country report (see Annexe III).</p>
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            <heading>Replacement reporting periods</heading>
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              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> may, by notice in writing, allow you to give all statements, or specified kinds of statements, under section 815-355 in relation to a 12 month period other than an income year.</p>
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              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>A notice under subsection (1) is not a legislative instrument.</p>
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            <heading>Exemptions</heading>
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              <p>Exemptions for particular entities</p>
              <p>General exemptions</p>
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              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> may, by notice in writing, exempt an entity from:</p>
              </content>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-365__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>giving statements under <ref href="#sec-815">section 815</ref>-355; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-4__clause-815-365__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>giving statements of a particular kind under that section.</p>
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            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-4__clause-815-365__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>A notice under subsection (1) is not a legislative instrument.</p>
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              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#commissioner">The Commissioner</role> may, by legislative instrument, determine that section 815-355 does not apply to a specified class of entity.</p>
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            <num>2</num>
            <heading>Application</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to income years starting on or after <date date="2016-01-01">1 January 2016</date>.</p>
              <p>[<i>Minister’s second reading speech made in—</i></p>
              <p>
                <i>House of Representatives on 16 September 2015</i>
              </p>
              <p><i>Senate on 9 November 2015</i>]</p>
              <p>(171/15)</p>
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