Certain taxation liabilities taken to be debts
588F Certain taxation liabilities taken to be debts
For the purposes of this Part, a company’s liability under a remittance provision to pay to the Commissioner of Taxation an amount equal to a deduction made by the company, after 1 July 1993, from a payment:
is taken to be a debt; and
is taken to have been incurred when the deduction was made.
In this section:
remittance provision means any of the following former provisions of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936:
section 220AAE, 220AAM or 220AAR;
section 221F (except subsection 221F(12)) or section 221G (except subsection 221G(4A));
subsection 221YHDC(2);
subsection 221YHZD(1) or (1A);
subsection 221YN(1);
or any of the provisions of Subdivision 16‑B in Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953.
This section is not intended to limit the generality of a reference in this Act to a debt or to incurring a debt.
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