如题
看到书上说 Family Trust Election
ATO每年也会发布Family Trust Election的表格,可是不明白这玩意儿是干啥的
放狗搜搜,有人介绍说
A trust can make a family trust election provided it passes the family control test. A family trust election makes a trust a family trust for tax purposes.
Broadly, the family control test will be satisfied if the trust is controlled by the family of the person named in the election.
In this context, family includes (but is not limited to) spouses, parents, grandparents, siblings, children, nephews or nieces. In some circumstances, companies, partnerships and trusts can also be considered to be members of the family.
The benefits of making a family trust election may include:
access to franking credits;
ability to utilise prior year losses and bad debt deductions;
simplification of the continuity of ownership test; and
simpler trustee beneficiary reporting rules.
还是很困惑啊,一个Trust如果通过Family Control Test就可以做一个Election,好处是
能够access Frank Credit
能够利用以前的loss和坏账debet
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有人能举个例子,例如一个family trust做了Election,和没做Election对比,有什么好处呢?
先谢谢了,有意义的探讨一律加分ing
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晚上回家来答你,白天上班爪机打字太累。
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晚上回家来答你,白天上班爪机打字太累。
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晚上回家来答你,白天上班爪机打字太累。
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什么情况,怎么发了三次?爪机太给力了。。。。
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个人认为很多人要做family trust election (FTE) 是因为trust losses meaures.
根据澳洲税法,trust can no distribute losses. those losses have to stay in the trust.
但是来年当你想用those losses to offset your assessable income, you need to meet certain tests which we call trust losses measures.
下面我来讲一下trust losses meaures.
宪法折磨多,我换台电脑来打字,iPad 打字太慢。
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呵呵,两位牛人都是爪机,IPAD啊
先付定金了,每日可用分数有限,但只要回帖有内容,隔日一定补分:)
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继续发帖!好继续聊一聊trust losses measures
请看下面的链接:
http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses ... m&page=5&H5
在这个链接里有一个table (summary of tests that apply); 这个图表是讲关于各类trusts需要通过什么tests,才能利用previous year's trust losses to offset this year's assessable income (也就是我们所说的trust losses measures)
如果你仔细看,你就会发现如果是family trust (a trust who has made a family trust election), 那么它只需要pass income injection test ,就可以利用trust losses了。
但是如果不是family trust,那么它至少需要pass at least two tests to be able to use trust losses to offset income.
所以说,对family trust 来讲,trust losses measures 更宽松。
但是,凡事都有两面性。如果a trust has made a family trust election and become a family trust, then you need to be aware of family trust distributions tax.
意思是说,if this family trust made a distribution outside the family group, then this trust will be liable to 46.5% tax which is family trust distributions tax.
下面这个链接是讲family trust distributions tax的:
http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses ... amp;page=55&H55
先写这么多,lz如果觉得有用,可一定要加分啊!
最后,奉上两个很有用的ATO链接,仅供参考:
Broad overview of the trust losses measures:
http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses ... m&page=1&H1
Family trust elections questions and answers:
http://www.ato.gov.au/content/40272.htm
[ 本帖最后由 Momotaba 于 2012-1-27 16:01 编辑 ]
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送老丈人去见国内来的朋友,回来太晚了,明天补上。
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谢谢Momotaba 的回复,等待achollis 大作
我也写点读书笔记
Broad overview of the trust losses measures:
http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses ... m&page=1&H1
很值得推荐,呵呵
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1,Family Trust不是名字有Family Trust就算数的
你成立一个Trust,叫 ABC Family Trust,和叫ABC Discretionary Trust,对ATO来说,是一样的,除非你递交了Family Trust Election,那么在税务意义上,他们会把你Trust当成Family Trust,
当你想用以前的Loss的抵消当年的income时,审核标准会降低
如下图
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上图中,non-fixed trust该是一般的discretionary trust(自由分配信托)
一般来说,你去网上买一个Trust Deed,弄出来的,可以把income把自由分给爸妈,子女,叔叔阿姨之类的,都是discretionary trust,当要拿往年的loss来offset你当年Trust的income时,都需要满足几个test,才能offset
如果通过Election成为税务上的居民时,只需要通过income injection test就可以拿以往loss来offset当年income了
当然,要记住,对于discretionary trust,一旦你向ATO lodge Election,转换成税务上的family trust以后,这是不可撤销的,一般来说你无法再取消
有失必有得,当你的Trust成了税务上的family trust,如果你把钱转给outsider(外面的人),会需要交46.5% 的 family trust distributions tax
其实,看了这么多,如果你是正常运作,好像根本不需要担心这些问题,自税法成立以来,就有无数会计师,律师和ATO做着坚持不懈的斗争,一方拼命找漏洞,利用它,还是合法的,ATO都没话说
ATO能做的,就像微软一样,不停地发布补丁,各种test,各种rule,来修补这些漏洞,于是就有了这些看得让人发晕的test之类
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读书笔记写的不错,看来你是真明白了!
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不好意思啊,昨天写了一半的时候要送老丈人去见他十几年没见的老同事,回来都两点了,来不及写完了。今天来补完。
momotaba讲的是比较专业或是理论性的做family trust election的理由,也可以说做了FTE之后的advantage。我在讲一下实际操作中的做FTE的原因。
这里有两个主要背景,第一是关于momotaba提到的关于trust losses的,第二个是关于franking credit的。
第一个 trustee losses measure是为了避免曾经出现过的loss trading的情况,因为trust losses是和company loss一样不能distribute给个人的,如果没有之后的利润loss就会一直在那没办法用到。那么曾经出现过出售有losses的trust或公司,然后卖家拿capital gain,而买家可以利用loss的情况,于是就有了相关的条例,必须通过momotaba提到的几条test才能claim loss,如果你仔细看看就会发现,那几条test都是为了避免出现所有权,或者trust的结果发生变化而设置的。但是对于family trust,entitlement因为trust的特性是不能出售给family group之外的人的,所以loss怎么用都是在family 里面,所以税局为了照顾family business 才给出了这样的优惠。在family group里面trust的收入可以随意流动到有loss的entity里去,包括其他的family trust 或者是这个family 的全资公司,family也可以利用loss去抵消未来的收入。
第二个,franking credit的也是类似的原因,有一个条45 days rule,就是说你必须持有股票超过四十五天,你才能享有分红包含的franking credit,而这一条有两个例外。第一是如果franking credit只有不到5000的,还有就是family trust。
所以做了FTE会给家族生意和投资带来比较大的操作空间来分配利润和降低tax。
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MARK,好贴
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谢谢分享啊
看来control或者stake之类的test,都是为了防止类似购买一个loss的trust,用loss来offset income,以实现避税,当然ato各类test都杜绝了这个现象
可以说一下Family Trust做了Election后,Franking Credit的有何优惠吗?
或者说难道Trust不做election,就可以把income分给别人?而不必交Family Distribution Tax?
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如果不make family trust election,那么这个trust就不能叫family trust, 另外因为没做family trust election, 你也就不会define who your family is. 所以不存在family distribution tax 的问题。
另外,关于franking credits的问题,我明天用空的话会去税无局网站上找点资料,今天周末它们的网站上不去。估计网站也过周末去了。
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好帖子
我怎么所有链接都打不开
谁能好心给我重新send一个
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今天ATO 网站休息,明天再点吧
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Discretionary Trust Deed里面定义了几个special beneficiary,这些人的父母,子女,三姑六婆都延伸成受益人
这些就构成了这个Deed的受益人列表,难道Trustee还可以随便distribute给别人?而不需要考虑distribution tax?
我记得,受益人在Trust Deed里面是不能随便修改的,否则会引发Re-settle Trust,里面的资产就像过户一样,又要交一遍Stamp Duty
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mark
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个人认为family trust makes family trust election之后,franking credit应该没有什么优惠,应该是business as usual的原则。
另外,关于franking credit 和 family trust election, achollis的回帖已经讲得很清楚了,我这里不做重复。
那么关于trust and franking credits, ATO网站上有一个连接是关于什么时候trustee能拿refund of exces franking credits的,我觉得很有用贴在下面仅供参考:
http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses ... 001&st=&cy=
简单的说,如果section 99 of ITAA 1936 applies,trustee will be entitled to excess franking credits.
那么是不是说别的section other than section 99 (比如section 98)applies, this trust will lose the excess franking credits 呢?不是的,答案是beneficiary needs to lodge a tax return to claim excess franking credits.
举个例子说明一下:
a discretionary trust has $5000 taxable income, section 99 applies here, trustee is also entiled to $6000 tax free threshold. In this case $5000<$6000, trustee is not liable for any tax.
However this trustee received $300 franking credits from another company, so based on the fact sheet above, when the trust lodges a tax return, this trust will receive $300 excess franking credits as tax refund.
下面我们来改一下上面的例子:
1. 假设section 98 applies, the trustee is liable for tax on behalf the beneficiary as the beneficiary is presently entitled to share of income but under legal disbiblity (the beneficiary is a minor)
2. 再假设trustee should pay tax of $200。
3. 那么因为我们有$300 franking credit offset,
4. 所以trustee should pay no tax ($200-$200=0);
5. 我们还剩$100 excess franking credit;
6. 因为section 98 applies, so trustee will not receive this $100 as a refund. The minor beneficiary needs to lodge his own return to claim this excess franking credit in his tax return.
Here is another link about this example: http://www.ato.gov.au/businesses ... m&page=8&H8
最后,希望我写的这些lz能明白。
另外,我想告诉新澳之旅,我之前贴的链接应该能用了,因为ATO网站恢复正常了。
[ 本帖最后由 Momotaba 于 2012-1-29 15:51 编辑 ]
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Poweregg太赞了解很好学
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研究一下
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