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Yes, section 82KZM applies to prepaid expenditure incurred under an agreement for a thing to be done over a 12 month period, if the agreement does not require the thing to be wholly done within 13 months after the day on which the prepaid expenditure is incurred.

Subdivision H of Division 3 of Part III comprising section 82KZL to section 82KZO has the effect of denying an immediate deduction for certain prepaid expenditure (except excluded expenditure, see point 4 below) which is incurred under an agreement entered into after 25 May 1988. This expenditure which would otherwise be deductible under subsection 51(1) must be apportioned over the eligible service period.

Subsection 82KZL(1) defines 'eligible service period' as the period from the beginning of: (a) the day, or the first day, on which the thing to be done under the agreement in return for the amount of expenditure is required, or permitted, as the case may be, to commence being done; or (b) if the expenditure is incurred on a later day - the day on which the expenditure is incurred; until the end of: (c) the day, or the last day, on which the thing to be done under the agreement in return for the amount of expenditure is required, or permitted, as the case may be, to cease being done; or (d) if that day or last day ends more than 10 years after the beginning of the period -- 10 years after the beginning of the period.

Excluded expenditure means an amount of expenditure: (a) less than $1,000; (b) required to be incurred by a law, or by order of a court of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; (c) under a contract of service; or (d) to the extent that it is of a capital, private or domestic nature.