The inquiry into dividend stripping in corporate reorganisations involving distributions of retained profits focuses on whether the dominant purpose was to avoid tax on distributions to original shareholders, not on whether profits remain within the Australian tax system or whether tax might be payable in the future; and schemes involving distributions to associates of original shareholders within the same group may still constitute dividend stripping operations.
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