A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 1)

A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 1 ) 1 Select Legislative Instrument 201 2 No. 87 I, QUENTIN BRYCE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following r egulation under the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 . Dated 24 May 2012 QUENTIN BRYCE Governor-General By Her Excellency’s Command DAVID BRADBURY Assistant Treasurer 1 Nam e of r egulation Th is r egulation is the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 1) . 2 Commencement Th is r egulation commence s on 1 July 2012 . 3 Amendment of A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Regulations 1999 Schedule 1 amends the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Regulations 1999 . Schedule 1 Amendments ( section 3) [ 1 ] Subregulation 40-5.09 (3), table, item 7 substitute 7 A guarantee 7A An indemnity that holds a person harmless from any loss as a result of a transaction th e person enter s with a third party [ 2 ] Subregulation 40-5.09 (3), table, item 8 after agreement insert entered into before 1 July 2012 [ 3 ] Regulation 40-5.12, table, after item 18 insert 19 Goods supplied under a h ire purchase a greement entered into on or after 1 July 2012 20 Credit under a hire purchase agreement entered into on or after 1 July 2012 21 A warrant y for goods [ 4 ] Subregulation 70-5.02 (2), table, after item 12 insert 12 A Lenders mortgage reinsurance [ 5 ] Subregulation 70-5.02 (2), table, item 24, paragraph (h) omit services insert services; [ 6 ] Subregulation 70-5.02 (2) , table, item 24, after paragraph (h) insert (i) processing and assessing claims under life insurance policies carried out on or after 1 July 2012 [ 7 ] Subregulation 70-5.02 (2), table, after item 31 i nsert Supplies to recognised trust schemes 32 Supplies acquired by a recognised trust scheme , to the extent that: (a) the supplies are acquired on or after 1 July 2012; and (b) the supplies acquired are not: (i) a supply by way of sale of goods or supply of real property made by: (A) selling a freehold interest in land; or (B) selling a stratum unit; or (C) granting or selling a long-term lease; or (ii) a brokerage service covered by item 9 or 21; or (iii) a service covered by paragraph (a), (b) or (e) of item 23; or (iv) a service covered by paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) or (i) of item 24; or (v) a custodial service covered by item 29; or (vi) a service covered by item 30; or (vii) a service covered by item 33 Monitoring services 3 3 Monitoring and reporting services (other than taxation and auditing services) that : (a) are acquired on or after 1 July 2012; and (b) are required for compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 [ 8 ] After s ubregulation 70-5.02 (3) , including the examples insert (4) F o r this regulation: debt interest has the same meaning as in the Income T ax A ssessment Act 1997 . long - term lease —see the Dictionary in Part 6-3 of the Act. managed investment scheme has the same meaning as in the Corporations Act 2001 . mortgage loan means a loan secured by a mortgage over real property. mortgage scheme means a managed investment scheme that has at least 50% of its non-cash assets invested in mortgage loans or in one or more other mortgage schemes. real property —see the Dictionary in Part 6-3 of the Act . recognised trust scheme means a trust that has the following features: (a) the entity that acts in the capacity as trustee or responsibility entity of the trust, is ca rrying on, in its own capacity, an enterprise that includes making taxable supplies to the trust; ( b ) th e trust is : (i) a managed investment scheme , or part of a managed investment scheme , other than a securitisation entity or a mortgage scheme ; or (ii) an approved deposit fund within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 ; or (iii) a pooled superannuation trust within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 ; or (iv) a public sector superannuation scheme within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 ; or (v) a regulated superannuation fund (other than a self managed superannuation fund) within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 . s ecuritisation entity means a trust that has the following features : (a) the trust was established for the purpose of managing some or all of the economic risk associated with assets, liabilities or investments (whether the trust assumes the risk from another person or creates the risk itself); (b) the total value of the debt interests in the trust is at least 50% of the total value of the trust ’s assets; (c) the trust is an insolvency-remote special purpose entity according to criteria of an i nternationally recognised rating agency that are applicable to the circumstances of the trust (regardless of whether the agency has determined that the trust satisfies the criteria ) . stratum unit —see the Dictionary in Part 6-3 of the Act. [ 9 ] Regulation 70-5.03 substitute 70-5.03 Percentage to which input tax credits are reduced (Act s 70-5) For subsection 70-5 (2) of the Act, the percentage to which the input tax credit is reduced is as follows: (a) for a reduced credit acquisition covered by item 32 of the table in subregulation 70 -5.02 (2) —5 5%; (b) for a reduced credit acquisition covered by item 32 and one or more other items of the table in subregulation 70 ‑ 5.02 (2) : (i) to the extent that the acqu isition is covered by item 32 —55% ; and (ii) to the extent that the acquisition is not covered by item 32 —75%; (c) for all other kinds of reduced credit acquisitions —75%. [ 10 ] Schedule 7, Part 6 , column 2 o mit agreement insert agreement entered into before 1 July 2012 [ 11 ] Schedule 8, after Part 6 insert Part 7 Example for item 20 in the table in regulation 40 ‑ 5.12 Item Example 1 The credit component under a hire purchase agreement entered into on or after 1 July 2012 where the consideration is the amount of interest and associated fees and charges Note 1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://w ww.comlaw .gov.au .