In February 2017, Phil Broderick of Sladen legal article was published “Units trusts and cost base resets under the TBC” in the Tax Institute’s Journal, Taxation in Australia.

The cost base reset measure has been implemented to help alleviate the retrospective application of the transfer balance cap measure (so that only future gains are taxed). However, as discussed in the article, the cost base reset does not always work for super funds that hold units in unit trusts as the cost base reset occurs at the unit level not the underlying asset level.

A copy of this article can be accessed here.

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Phil Broderick
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