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This information is published by Charter Hall Retail Management Limited (RE) as responsible entity of Charter Hall Retail REIT (Trust) under section 601GCB(2) of the Corporations Act as modified by ASIC Corporations (Attribution Managed Investment Trusts) Instrument 2016/489 (Class Order) to inform members of the Trust (Members) that the RE has amended the constitution for the Trust (Constitution) to allow the Trust to be operated as an attribution managed investment trust under the new AMIT Regime.
The AMIT Regime
The Tax Laws Amendment (New Tax System for Managed Investment Trusts) Act 2016, together with additional supplemental legislation (“the AMIT Regime”), became law on 5 May 2016. The RE amended the Constitution on 13 December 2017 so that the Trust can be effectively operated as an attribution managed investment trust under this new tax regime.
The key difference between the current tax regime which applies to the Trust (Division 6 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936) and the new AMIT Regime is that under the AMIT Regime, Members are taxed on the taxable income that is allocated or “attributed” to Members by the RE. The new AMIT Regime requires the RE to undertake this allocation or attribution on a fair and reasonable basis. This is in contrast to the current taxing regime under Division 6, which provides that a Member will be subject to tax to the extent that each Member is “presently entitled” to the income of the Trust according to trust law principles.
The RE amended the Constitution to allow the RE to elect to apply the new AMIT Regime to the Trust and to facilitate the RE to be able to operate the Trust as an attribution managed investment trust in a manner permitted by the AMIT Regime. The modifications made to the Constitution are summarised below.
Reasons for the amendments to the Constitution
The RE believes that, by allowing a different tax regime to be adopted for the Trust, the amendments to the Constitution have the following potential benefits for Members:
The RE notes that the AMIT regime has only been recently enacted. As such, it is possible there may be some uncertainty regarding its operation in the initial years.
Effect of the amendments made to the Constitution
The amendments made to the Trust's Constitution permit the RE to:
The amendments also:
Various associated definitions and ancillary provisions were included to facilitate the application of the AMIT Regime to the Trust.
View CQR 2017 Supplemental Deed to the Constitution