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    <preface>
      <p>Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Integrity and Other Measures) Act 2018</p>
      <p>No. 124, 2018</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—Multinational anti-avoidance law	3</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936	3</p>
      <p>Schedule 2—Improving the integrity of the small business CGT concessions	5</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997	5</p>
      <p>Schedule 3—Fintech and venture capital amendments	9</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997	9</p>
      <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953	11</p>
      <p>Venture Capital Act 2002	12</p>
      <p>Schedule 4—Tax exemption for payments made under the Defence Force Ombudsman Scheme	13</p>
      <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997	13</p>
      <p>An Act to amend the law relating to taxation, and for related purposes</p>
      <p>[<i>Assented to 3 October 2018</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 is the <i>Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Integrity and Other Measures)</i> <i>Act 2018</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 first 1 January, 1 April, 1 July or 1 October to occur after the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.</td>
              <td>1 January 2019</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>
        </content>
      </section>
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      <attachment>
        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-1">
          <heading>Multinational anti-avoidance law</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1936</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-1__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>Subsection 177A(1)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
              <p><b><i>foreign entity participant</i></b>:</p>
            </content>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-1__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(a)	if a beneficiary of a trust estate or a partner in a partnership is a foreign entity, the trust estate or partnership has a <b><i>foreign entity participant</i></b>; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-1__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if a trust estate or partnership has a foreign entity participant (including through a previous operation of this paragraph):</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-1__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(i)	a trust of which the trust estate or partnership is a beneficiary also has a <b><i>foreign entity participant</i></b>; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-1__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(ii)	a partnership in which the trust estate or partnership is a partner also has a <b><i>foreign entity participant</i></b>.</p>
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            </paragraph>
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            <num>2</num>
            <heading>At the end of section 177DA</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>Income from supply by trust estate or partnership</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-2__subclause-7">
              <num>7</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsection (8) applies if:</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>both of the following conditions are satisfied:</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>a trust estate or partnership makes a supply to an entity;</p>
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            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>that entity would be an Australian customer of the trust estate or partnership if the trust estate or partnership were a foreign entity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>because of the supply, an amount of ordinary income, or statutory income, is included in the assessable income of the trust estate or partnership (as worked out for the purposes of working out its net income for a year of income); and</p>
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            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>the trust estate or partnership has a foreign entity participant at any time in that year of income; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>any of the following conditions are satisfied at the time the supply is made:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(i)	the trust estate or partnership is connected with (within the meaning of the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i>) a foreign entity;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the trust estate or partnership would be an affiliate (within the meaning of that Act) of a foreign entity if the trust estate or partnership were an individual or a company;</p>
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            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the trust estate or partnership and a foreign entity are members of the same global group.</p>
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            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-1__clause-2__subclause-8">
              <num>8</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of this section:</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>treat the foreign entity mentioned in paragraph (7)(d) as having made the supply; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>treat the entity mentioned in subparagraph (7)(a)(ii) as being an Australian customer of the foreign entity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-1__clause-2__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>treat the foreign entity as having derived the ordinary income, or statutory income, from the supply.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
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            <num>3</num>
            <heading>Application</heading>
            <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>
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        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-2">
          <heading>Improving the integrity of the small business CGT concessions</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>Section 152-5</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit:</p>
              <p>The 3 major basic conditions are:</p>
              <p>substitute:</p>
              <p>The 2 major basic conditions are:</p>
              <p>Additional basic conditions must be satisfied if the CGT asset is a share in a company or an interest in a trust.</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity must be a CGT small business entity or a partner in a partnership that is a CGT small business entity, or the net value of assets that the entity and related entities own must not exceed $6,000,000;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the CGT asset must be an active asset;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>if the asset is a share or interest in a trust, there must be a CGT concession stakeholder just before the CGT event, and the entity claiming the concession must be a CGT concession stakeholder in the company or trust or CGT concession stakeholders in the company or trust must have a small business participation percentage in the entity of at least 90%.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the entity must be a CGT small business entity or a partner in a partnership that is a CGT small business entity, or the net value of assets that the entity and related entities own must not exceed $6,000,000; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-1__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>the CGT asset must be an active asset.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-2__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>Subsection 152-10(2)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the subsection, substitute:</p>
              <p>Additional basic conditions for shares in a company or interests in a trust</p>
              <p>if the following assumptions were made:</p>
              <p>if the company or trust acquired that asset for a purpose that included assisting an entity to otherwise satisfy paragraph (2)(a) of this section; and</p>
              <p>if the following assumptions were made:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-2__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(2)	The following additional basic conditions must be satisfied if the *CGT asset is a *share in a company, or an interest in a trust, (the <b><i>object entity</i></b>):</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>the CGT asset would still satisfy the active asset test (see <ref href="#sec-152">section 152</ref>-35) if the assumptions in subsection (2A) were made;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>if you do not satisfy the maximum net asset value test (see <ref href="#sec-152">section 152</ref>-15)—you are carrying on a *business just before the *CGT event;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>either:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the object entity would be a *CGT small business entity for the income year; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the object entity would satisfy the maximum net asset value test (see <ref href="#sec-152">section 152</ref>-15);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the only CGT assets or *annual turnovers considered were those of the object entity, each affiliate of the object entity, and each entity controlled by the object entity in a way described in <ref href="#sec-328">section 328</ref>-125;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-iv">
              <num>iv</num>
              <content>
                <p>each reference in <ref href="#sec-328">section 328</ref>-125 to 40% were a reference to 20%;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-v">
              <num>v</num>
              <content>
                <p>no determination under subsection 328-125(6) were in force;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>just before the CGT event, either:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>you are a *CGT concession stakeholder in the object entity; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>CGT concession stakeholders in the object entity together have a *small business participation percentage in you of at least 90%.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-2__subclause-2A">
              <num>2A</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(2A)	For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a), in working out whether subsection 152-40(3) applies at a given time (the <b><i>test time</i></b>) assume that:</p>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>an asset of a company or trust is covered by neither:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>subparagraph 152-40(3)(b)(ii) (about financial instruments); nor</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>subparagraph 152-40(3)(b)(iii) (about cash);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>paragraph 152-40(3)(b) does not cover an asset that:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(i)	is a share in a company, or an interest in a trust, (the <b><i>later entity</i></b>); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>is held at the test time by the object entity directly or indirectly (through one or more interposed entities); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>subparagraph 152-40(3)(b)(i) also covers each asset that:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>is held at the test time by a later entity covered by subsection (2B); and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>is, for that later entity, an asset of a kind referred to in subparagraph 152-40(3)(b)(i), (ii) or (iii), as modified by paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-d">
              <num>d</num>
              <content>
                <p>subject to paragraph (b) of this subsection, all of the assets of the object entity at the test time included all of the assets of each later entity at the test time; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-e">
              <num>e</num>
              <content>
                <p>for the purposes of paragraph 152-40(3)(b), the *market value at the test time of an asset held by a later entity were the product of:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the asset’s market value, apart from this paragraph, at the test time; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the object entity’s *small business participation percentage in the later entity at the test time.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-2__clause-2__subclause-2B">
              <num>2B</num>
              <content>
                <p>For the purposes of paragraph (2A)(c), this subsection covers a later entity if:</p>
              </content>
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            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>at the test time:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>your *small business participation percentage in the later entity is at least 20%; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>you are a *CGT concession stakeholder of the later entity; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>either:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>the later entity would be a *CGT small business entity for the income year that includes the test time; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the later entity would satisfy the maximum net asset value test (see <ref href="#sec-152">section 152</ref>-15) for a notional CGT event taken to have happened at the test time;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-iii">
              <num>iii</num>
              <content>
                <p>the only *CGT assets or *annual turnovers considered were those of the later entity and of the entities referred to in subparagraph (2)(c)(iii);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-iv">
              <num>iv</num>
              <content>
                <p>each reference in <ref href="#sec-328">section 328</ref>-125 to 40% were a reference to 20%;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-2__clause-2__para-v">
              <num>v</num>
              <content>
                <p>no determination under subsection 328-125(6) were in force.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
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            <num>3</num>
            <heading>Application of amendments</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to CGT events happening on or after <date date="2018-02-08">8 February 2018</date>.</p>
            </content>
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      <attachment>
        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-3">
          <heading>Fintech and venture capital amendments</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>After subsection 118-425(13)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-1__subclause-13A">
              <num>13A</num>
              <content>
                <p>However, none of the following activities are ineligible activities mentioned in subsection (13):</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-1__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>developing technology for use in relation to an activity referred to in paragraph (13)(b), (c) or (e);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-1__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>an activity that is ancillary or incidental to the activity of developing technology referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-1__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>an activity referred to in paragraph (13)(b), (c) or (e) that is the subject of a finding in force under <ref href="#sec-118">section 118</ref>-432 at the time the investment is made.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-1__subclause-13B">
              <num>13B</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsection (13A) does not apply in circumstances prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this subsection.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>After subsection 118-427(14)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-2__subclause-14A">
              <num>14A</num>
              <content>
                <p>However, none of the following activities are ineligible activities mentioned in subsection (14):</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-2__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>developing technology for use in relation to an activity referred to in paragraph (14)(b), (c) or (e);</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-2__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>an activity that is ancillary or incidental to the activity of developing technology referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection;</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-2__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>an activity referred to in paragraph (14)(b), (c) or (e) that is the subject of a finding in force under <ref href="#sec-118">section 118</ref>-432 at the time the investment is made.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-2__subclause-14B">
              <num>14B</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subsection (14A) does not apply in circumstances prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this subsection.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-3">
            <num>3</num>
            <heading>After section 118-430</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-432">
            <num>118-432</num>
            <heading>Findings of substantially novel applications of technology</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Public findings</p>
              <p>Note:	A substantially novel application of a technology could, for example, take the form of a substantially novel product or service.</p>
              <p>Private findings</p>
              <p>Note:	A refusal to make a finding is reviewable (see Part 5 of the <i>Venture Capital Act 2002</i>).</p>
              <p>Period for which a finding is in force</p>
              <p>Note:	For variation and revocation, see subsection 33(3) of the <i>Acts Interpretation Act 1901</i>.</p>
              <p>Applications for private findings</p>
            </content>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-432__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>*Innovation and Science Australia may, by legislative instrument, find that each activity within a specified class is a substantially novel application of one or more technologies.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-432__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>*Innovation and Science Australia may, on application by a company or unit trust, make a written decision:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-118-432__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>finding that a specified activity is a substantially novel application of one or more technologies; or</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-118-432__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>refusing to make such a finding about a specified activity.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-432__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>Subject to variation or revocation, a finding under subsection (1) or paragraph (2)(a) is in force for the period specified in the finding.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-432__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p>An application for a finding under paragraph (2)(a) must be in the *form approved by Innovation and Science Australia.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-432__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p>*Innovation and Science Australia must notify the applicant in writing of any decision under subsection (2) about the application.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-432__subclause-6">
              <num>6</num>
              <content>
                <p>A failure to comply with subsection (5) does not affect the validity of a finding or decision.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-3A">
            <num>3A</num>
            <heading>At the end of Subdivision 118-F</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455">
            <num>118-455</num>
            <heading>Impact Assessment of this Subdivision</heading>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455__subclause-1">
              <num>1</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(1)	As soon as practicable after 24 months after the <i>Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Integrity and Other Measures) Act 2018</i> receives the Royal Assent, the Minister must cause an impact assessment of the operation of this Subdivision and other related tax concessions to be conducted.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455__subclause-2">
              <num>2</num>
              <content>
                <p>The impact assessment must:</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455__para-a">
              <num>a</num>
              <content>
                <p>examine the operation of the tax concession regime for:</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455__para-i">
              <num>i</num>
              <content>
                <p>investments made through a *VCLP, *ESVCLP or *AFOF; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455__para-ii">
              <num>ii</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(ii)	investments made directly by foreign residents registered under Part 3 of the <i>Venture Capital Act 2002</i>; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455__para-b">
              <num>b</num>
              <content>
                <p>be conducted by the Department and Innovation and Science Australia; and</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <paragraph eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455__para-c">
              <num>c</num>
              <content>
                <p>make provision for public consultation.</p>
              </content>
            </paragraph>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455__subclause-3">
              <num>3</num>
              <content>
                <p>	(3)	For the purposes of conducting the impact assessment, the reference to Innovation and Science Australia in item 6 of the table in subsection 355-65(4) of Schedule 1 to the <i>Taxation Administration Act 1953</i> is taken to include the Secretary of the Department.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455__subclause-4">
              <num>4</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#minister">The Minister</role> must cause a written report about the impact assessment to be prepared.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <hcontainer name="subclause" eId="schedule-3__clause-118-455__subclause-5">
              <num>5</num>
              <content>
                <p><role refersTo="#minister">The Minister</role> must cause a copy of the report to be tabled in each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the report is given to <role refersTo="#minister">the Minister</role>.</p>
              </content>
            </hcontainer>
            <content>
              <p>Taxation Administration Act 1953</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-4">
            <num>4</num>
            <heading>At the end of subsections 362-5(1) and 362-25(1) in Schedule 1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>Note:	An activity will not be an ineligible activity for the purposes of subsections 118-425(13) and 118-427(14) of the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i> if, for example, it is covered by subsections 118-425(13A) and 118-427(14A) of that Act.</p>
              <p>Venture Capital Act 2002</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-5">
            <num>5</num>
            <heading>At the end of section 29-1</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>	; (m)	decisions under subsection 118-432(2) of the <i>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</i> refusing to make a finding about an activity.</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-3__clause-6">
            <num>6</num>
            <heading>Application of amendments</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to investments made on or after <date date="2018-07-01">1 July 2018</date>.</p>
            </content>
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        <hcontainer name="schedule" eId="schedule-4">
          <heading>Tax exemption for payments made under the Defence Force Ombudsman Scheme</heading>
          <content>
            <p>Income Tax Assessment Act 1997</p>
          </content>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-1">
            <num>1</num>
            <heading>Section 11-15 (table item headed “defence”)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Omit:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-2">
            <num>2</num>
            <heading>Section 11-15 (table item headed “defence”)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>After:</p>
              <p>insert:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-3">
            <num>3</num>
            <heading>Section 51-5 (table item 1.7)</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Repeal the item, substitute:</p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-4">
            <num>4</num>
            <heading>At the end of section 51-5</heading>
            <content>
              <p>Add:</p>
              <p>Note:	Reparation payments under <i> </i>or 14B of the <i>Ombudsman Regulations</i><i> </i><i>2017</i> relate to abuse in the Defence Force.<ref href="#sec-14">section 14</ref></p>
            </content>
          </hcontainer>
          <hcontainer name="clause" eId="schedule-4__clause-5">
            <num>5</num>
            <heading>Application of amendments</heading>
            <content>
              <p>The amendments made by this Schedule apply in relation to the 2017-18 income year and later income years.</p>
              <p>[<i>Minister’s second reading speech made in—</i></p>
              <p>
                <i>House of Representatives on 28 March 2018</i>
              </p>
              <p><i>Senate on 18 June 2018</i>]</p>
              <p>(73/18)</p>
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