Section 168 — Income Tax Assessment Act 1936: Special assessment

(1) The Commissioner may at any time during any year, or after its expiration, make an assessment of: (a) the taxable income derived (or that there is no taxable income) in that year or any part of it by any taxpayer; and (b) the tax payable thereon (or that no tax is payable); and (c) the total of the taxpayer’s tax offset refunds for that year or that part of it (or that the taxpayer can get no such refunds). (2) Where the income, in respect of which such an assessment is made, is derived in a period less than a year, the assessment shall be made as if the beginning and end of that period were the beginning and end respectively of the year of income.