Summary
Amends the: Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 to: ensure that expenses incurred in gaining or producing a rebatable benefit are not deductible; provide that complying superannuation entities cannot account for gains and losses on certain assets on revenue account using the trading stock exception; and exempt from income tax ex-gratia payments to New Zealand non-protected special category visa holders for the floods that occurred in New South Wales and Queensland in early 2012; Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 to commence the phase out of the dependent spouse tax offset by restricting eligibility for the offset to taxpayers with a dependent spouse born before 1 July 1952; and Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, Minerals Resource Rent Tax Act 2012, and Taxation Administration Act 1953 to make technical amendments.