Section HB 8 — Income Tax Act 2007: Disposal of financial arrangements and certain excepted financial arrangements

HB 8 Disposal of financial arrangements and certain excepted financial arrangements When this section applies (1) This section applies when a person (the exiting owner ) disposes of some or all of their owner’s interests for a look-through company, to the extent to which those interests include a financial arrangement or an excepted financial arrangement described in section EW 5(10) (What is an excepted financial arrangement?) and, ignoring section HB 1 ,— (a) the purpose for which the financial arrangement or excepted financial arrangement was entered into was necessary and incidental to the business of the look-through company; and (b) the look-through company does not have a business of holding financial arrangements. Exiting owner: excluded payment (2) The amount of consideration paid or payable to the exiting owner for the relevant financial arrangement or excepted financial arrangement is excluded income of the exiting owner. The exiting owner is, for the relevant financial arrangement, a party that is not required to calculate a base price adjustment, despite section EW 29 (When calculation of base price adjustment required). Exiting owner: no deduction (3) The exiting owner is denied a deduction in relation to the relevant financial arrangement or excepted financial arrangement for the income year in which the disposal of the financial arrangement or excepted financial arrangement occurs and later income years. Entering owner: no deduction (4) The entering owner is denied a deduction for the amount of consideration paid or payable to the exiting owner for the relevant financial arrangement or excepted financial arrangement. Entering owner: stepping in (5) For the purposes of calculating the income tax liability of an entering owner for the part of the income year after the disposal of the relevant financial arrangement or excepted financial arrangement occurs and later income years (the post-disposal periods ), the entering owner is treated for the post-disposal periods as if they had acquired and held the financial arrangement or excepted financial arrangement, not the exiting owner. Relationship with section HB 4 (6) Section HB 4 overrides this section. Defined in this Act: business , deduction , dispose , entering owner , excepted financial arrangement , excluded income , financial arrangement , income tax liability , income year , look-through company , owner's interests , pay Section HB 8: inserted, on 1 April 2011 (applying for income years beginning on or after 1 April 2011, and for the purposes of the Commissioner receiving LTC elections, on and after 21 December 2010), by section 78(1) of the Taxation (GST and Remedial Matters) Act 2010 (2010, No 130). Section HB 8(1)(b): amended (with effect on 1 April 2011), on 2 November 2012, by section 79 of the Taxation (Annual Rates, Returns Filing, and Remedial Matters) Act 2012 (2012 No 88).