Investment Allowance: small business and general business tax break
The Small Business and General Business Tax Break legislation has received Royal Assent and is now law.
The tax break, in the form of an investment allowance, provides:
Small business entities (turnover of less than $2 million a year):
An additional tax deduction of 50 per cent of the cost of eligible new tangible depreciating assets
where the business commits to investing in the asset between 13 December 2008 and 31 December 2009
and first uses the asset, or installs it ready for use, or (in the case of new investment in an existing asset)
brings the asset to its modified or improved state on or before 31 December 2010.
Other business entities (turnover of $2 million or more a year):
an additional tax deduction of 30 per cent of the cost of eligible new tangible depreciating assets
where the business commits to investing in the asset between 13 December 2008 and 30 June 2009 and first
uses the asset, or installs it ready for use, or brings the asset to its modified or improved state on or
before 30 June 2010.
an additional tax deduction of 10 per cent of the cost of eligible new tangible depreciating assets
where the business commits to investing in the asset between 13 December 2008 and 30 June 2009 and first
uses the asset, or installs it ready for use, or brings the asset to its modified or improved state
between 1 July 2010 and 31 December 2010.
an additional tax deduction of 10 per cent of the cost of eligible new tangible depreciating assets
where the business commits to investing in the asset between 1 July 2009 and 31 December 2009 and first
uses the asset, or installs it ready for use, or brings the asset to its modified or improved state on or
before 31 December 2010.
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