Income Tax Act 2007

Taxation of certain entities - Other entities

HR 9BA: Elections to treat debt funding special purpose vehicles as transparent

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"Choosing to treat a special company as transparent for tax purposes"

When you make a choice under section HR 9, you do this by telling the Commissioner. You must do this after the debt funding special purpose vehicle is formed and before you file your tax return. You can also make this choice when you file your first tax return after transferring assets to the debt funding special purpose vehicle.

If you make this choice, it cannot be changed. It starts from the date you first transferred an asset to the special purpose vehicle or when an asset became attributed to you as described in section HR 9BAA(3). This choice stays in effect until the company or trust stops being a special purpose vehicle.

If you make this choice for an asset, no one else can make the same choice for that asset, but section HR 10B can override this rule. This section is overridden by section HZ 9.

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HR 9BAElections to treat debt funding special purpose vehicles as transparent

  1. An originator makes an election referred to in section HR 9 by—

  2. after the formation of the debt funding special purpose vehicle and before the return of income referred to in paragraph (b), notifying the Commissioner that the originator chooses to have the liabilities and obligations referred to in section HR 9 that the special purpose vehicle would have in the absence of the election; or
    1. in the originator’s first return of income filed after the first transfer of assets by the originator to the debt funding special purpose vehicle, returning income derived and expenditure incurred by the debt funding special purpose vehicle.
      1. An election under this section—

      2. cannot be revoked; and
        1. has effect from the date on which—
          1. the originator first transferred an asset to the special purpose vehicle; or
            1. an asset first becomes an attributed asset for the originator as described in section HR 9BAA(3); and
            2. remains in effect until the relevant company or trustee of a trust stops being a special purpose vehicle.
              1. When an originator makes an election under subsection (1) or section HZ 9 (Elections to treat existing debt funding special purpose vehicles as transparent) in relation to an attributed asset referred to in section HR 9(1)(b), no other originator may make an election in relation to that asset.

              2. Section HR 10B overrides subsection (2B).

              3. This section is overridden by section HZ 9.

              Notes
              • Section HR 9BA: inserted, on , by section 223(1) (and see section 223(2) for application) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2018–19, Modernising Tax Administration, and Remedial Matters) Act 2019 (2019 No 5).
              • Section HR 9BA(1): replaced, on , by section 117 of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2021–22, GST, and Remedial Matters) Act 2022 (2022 No 10).
              • Section HR 9BA(1)(a): amended, on , by section 92(1) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024–25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Act 2025 (2025 No 9).
              • Section HR 9BA(2)(b): replaced, on , by section 92(2) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024–25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Act 2025 (2025 No 9).
              • Section HR 9BA(2)(c): amended, on , by section 92(3) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024–25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Act 2025 (2025 No 9).
              • Section HR 9BA(2B) heading: inserted, on , by section 92(4) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024–25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Act 2025 (2025 No 9).
              • Section HR 9BA(2B): inserted, on , by section 92(4) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024–25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Act 2025 (2025 No 9).
              • Section HR 9BA(2C) heading: inserted, on , by section 92(4) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024–25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Act 2025 (2025 No 9).
              • Section HR 9BA(2C): inserted, on , by section 92(4) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024–25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Act 2025 (2025 No 9).
              • Section HR 9BA(3): amended, on , by section 92(5) of the Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024–25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Act 2025 (2025 No 9).