Some capital gains are exempt that you don’t need to include in your assessable income. Also, if you made losses, you can not use as offsets a capital gain to reduce your assessable income.
Exemptions include capital gains or losses for:
- Your main residence with some exceptions
- your car , Car will define as motor vehicle which carry a load of less than one tonne and nine passenger or less to carry
- Personal use items who have value for less than $10,000
- Collectables who have value for $500 or less
- Depriciating assets used for taxable purposes
- If you buy property before 20 September 1985 which is called ‘Pre-CGT assets’
- Assets that produce exempt income or some types of non-assessable non-exempt income
- If you get injured at your workplace and get compensation or damaged received for any occupation
- Winning or losses from gambling or game
- You get paid back or any payment of your expenses under following scheme like
Unlawful Termination Assistance Scheme
Alternative Dispute Resolution Assistance Scheme
M4/M5 Cashback Scheme
- a scheme established by an Australian Government agency, a local government body or foreign government agency under an act or other legislative instrument, In this description expenses does not include loss, destruction or transfer of an asset
- the transfer of a super interest in one small super fund
- Have relation with superannuation agreement
- A CGT event happened after CGT event
- Some payments happened with a general insurance policy, life insurance policy or annuity instrument
- If you have shares in poll development fund
- Shares of certain profits, gains or losses from disposal of investments by capital entities
- Some type of gifts like will