Amendment of assessment if tax file number quoted or found out after assessment
18 Amendment of assessment if tax file number quoted or found out after assessment
Application
This section applies if:
an assessment of surcharge on the surchargeable contributions of a member for a financial year has been made; and
the member did not, before the assessment was made, quote his or her tax file number to the relevant superannuation provider in connection with the operation or the possible future operation of this Act and the Commissioner did not know the tax file number when the assessment was made; and
the assessed amount was more than it would have been if the member had quoted the tax file number to the provider; and
after the assessment was made:
the member quoted the tax file number to the provider in connection with the operation or the possible future operation of this Act and the provider informed the Commissioner of the tax file number; or
the Commissioner found out the tax file number.
Amendment of assessment
The Commissioner must amend the assessment to reduce the amount of surcharge to the amount that would have been payable if the Commissioner had known the tax file number when the assessment was made.
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