TOFA related amendments to ease transition and to ensure appropriate interaction with the pay as you go instalments provisions

The exposure draft legislation and accompanying explanatory materials are in relation to the TOFA related announced amendments that:

• ensure that the TOFA Stages 3 & 4 provisions interact appropriately with the pay as you go instalments provisions to lower compliance costs for taxpayers (announced by the former Assistant Treasurer on 29 June 2010); and
• give the Commissioner of Taxation the power to extend the time for taxpayers to notify the Commissioner about making a transitional election to apply the TOFA Stages 3 and 4 provisions to existing financial arrangements (announced by the Assistant Treasurer on 29 November 2010).