Australian Government
Australian Accounting Standards Board
AASB 2021-3 extends by one year the application period of the practical expedient in AASB 16 Leases to help lessees accounting for covid-19-related rent concessions.
The practical expedient permits lessees not to assess whether rent concessions that occur as a direct consequence of the covid-19 pandemic and meet specified conditions are lease modifications and, instead, to account for those rent concessions as if they were not lease modifications.
AASB 2021-3 extends the practical expedient originally provided by AASB 2020-4 Amendments to Australian Accounting Standards – Covid-19-Related Rent Concessions to rent concessions that reduce only lease payments originally due on or before 30 June 2022, provided the other conditions for applying the practical expedient are met.
The amendments apply to annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 April 2021 but can be adopted early.