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NAT: Income from Body Corporate Common Property

Published August 18, 2020 By Tower Body Corporate 1 Comment Last Updated August 20, 2020

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This article about the income from body corporate common property has been provided by Tammy Lynch, Tower Body Corporate.

Does your body corporate receive income from public car parking, payments for the use of common property to convene functions/conferences and the like, or payments from telecommunication companies and other businesses which erect communication towers on the roof of your complex or affix advertising signage to the common property?

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If so, Taxation Ruling No. TR 2015/3 “Income tax: matters relating to strata title bodies constituted under strata title legislation” issued by the Australian Taxation Office, probably applies to such income. The effect of this Ruling is that the ATO will apply a consistent approach across strata schemes in all States and Territories, notwithstanding the different ways in which strata title legislation describes how common property is held.

Most importantly, the ruling determines that the income received from the common property is taxable on the income tax return of the owners, not the Body Corporate.

To the extent that a body corporate may not have done so since TR 2015/3 was released, this will in future require that end-of-financial-year statements be issued to each lot owner which set out the owner’s proportions of income from common property (based on their lot entitlement) and associated deductions – which each lot owner then needs to include in their annual tax return.

This article is a brief summary of Taxation Ruling No. TR 2015/3 which is quite lengthy and complex. If you are a lot owner in a strata scheme/body corporate that derives income from sources such as those mentioned above, you should, if you have not previously done so, alert your tax agent, and if considered necessary, seek independent financial advice about the possible tax consequences this Ruling may have on your personal financial circumstances.

The full text of Taxation Ruling No. TR 2015/3 can be found here.

Tammy Lynch
Tower Body Corporate
P: 07 5609 4924
E: [email protected]

This post appears in Strata News #391

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This article is not intended to be personal advice and you should not rely on it as a substitute for any form of advice.

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  1. AvatarPhill Geary says

    August 19, 2020 at 3:16 pm

    Thanks for the article Tammy.

    One key thing for owners to be aware of is that they are still required to declare this sort of income even when they don’t physically take receipt of the funds. The ATO’s position is that the owners have still received a benefit in that scenario because if the body corporate / strata company / owners corporation did not retain the funds, the levies would, in theory at least, have been higher to compensate. It’s an often misunderstood point.

    We wrote an article up on our business blog back in 2015 that summarised the key points of TR 2015/3 and if readers are interested in learning more about the matter, they can visit the below link:

    https://www.ascendstrata.com.au/blog/ato-finalises-strata-tax-ruling

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