Income Tax Act 2007

Income - Exempt income

CW 55BA: Tertiary education institutions and subsidiaries

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“Tax exemption for tertiary education institutions and their subsidiaries”

If you’re a tertiary education institution or a subsidiary of one, you don’t have to pay tax on the money you earn. This is called exempt income.

A tertiary education subsidiary is a company that is fully owned by one or more tertiary education institutions. This means the institutions have all the voting power or all the market value interests in the company.

For a company to be a tertiary education subsidiary, no one except a tertiary education institution can control the company or use its money for their own benefit.

There are some exceptions to this rule. Some people might seem like they have control over the company, but they’re not counted as having control just because of their position or role.

If you want to know more about what counts as a benefit or advantage, or who is considered to have control over a company, you can check section CW 42 of the Income Tax Act. This section explains these ideas in more detail.

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Part C Income
Exempt income

CW 55BATertiary education institutions and subsidiaries

  1. An amount of income derived by a tertiary education institution or a tertiary education subsidiary is exempt income.

  2. In this section, a tertiary education subsidiary, for a tertiary education institution, means a company—

  3. in which the tertiary education institution, alone or together with other tertiary education institutions, holds—
    1. voting interests in the company adding up to 100%; or
      1. market value interests in the company adding up to 100%, when a market value circumstance exists; and
      2. where no person, other than a tertiary education institution, with some control over the company is able to direct or divert, to their own benefit or advantage, an amount derived from the company.
        1. For the purposes of subsection (2)(b), for an income year, a person is treated as having some control over the company and as being able to direct or divert amounts from the company if, in the corresponding tax year, they are described in section CW 42(5)(a) and (b).

        2. For the purposes of subsection (2)(b), a person described in section CW 42(7)(a) and (b) is not treated as having some control over the company merely because of the factors in section CW 42(7)(a) and (b).

        3. For the purposes of subsection (2)(b), a benefit or advantage is one that would be a benefit or advantage under section CW 42(1)(c) and (8).

        Notes
        • Section CW 55BA: replaced (with effect on 1 July 2008 and applying for the 2008–09 and later income years), on , by section 86(1) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2015–16, Research and Development, and Remedial Matters) Act 2016 (2016 No 1).