Capital Gains

Capital gains, Discretionary Trusts and Foreign Residents: round 3 to the ATO

Capital gains, Discretionary Trusts and Foreign Residents: round 3 to the ATO

We wrote here and here about the Greensill (Thawley J) and Martin (Steward J) Federal Court decisions. In those decisions the Federal Court found in favour of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) that section 855-10 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA 1997) did not disregard a non-taxable Australian property capital gain distributed to a foreign resident beneficiary of an Australian discretionary trust.