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The Institute influences government bodies on tax policy and related issues, communicates important changes in the tax system to its members and participates in relevant consultation forums. These include interactions with government ministers, the federal Treasury, the Board of Taxation, the Australian Tax Office and the Inspector General of Taxation.
Keep up-to-date on current issues in tax through resources such as the Chartered Accountants Tax Bulletin, Knowledge Centre, eBulletin articles, training and development and the Taxing issues blog.
The Tax Team at the Institute is led by Yasser El-Ansary, the Institute’s Tax Counsel.
Tax blogs
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23 Jan 2012 @ 12:18 | Yasser El-AnsaryWelcome to 2012, and welcome back to my blog for another year.By any measure, 2011 was tough. But, believe it or not, indicat...
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5 Dec 2011 @ 12:05 | Yasser El-AnsaryIt’s hard to believe, but only a few short weeks stand between us and the end of a highly eventful 2011 in the tax policy wor...
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28 Nov 2011 @ 2:26 | Yasser El-AnsaryYou’ve heard me discuss recently the problems with the federal government bringing in new tax policies with a retrospective c...
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14 Nov 2011 @ 2:57 | Yasser El-AnsaryThe rumour-mill in Canberra suggests the federal government is planning to unveil a mini-Budget sometime before the end of 20...
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2 Nov 2011 @ 8:54 | Yasser El-AnsaryQantas isn’t the only one being given the all clear for take-off this week. This Thursday, the federal government is plannin...
Tax agent services
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Minister Arbib has reminded BAS and Tax agents to renew their registrations by lodging an application for renewal before thei...
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The Board has issued a reminder that BAS and tax agents need to renew their registration before it expires on 1 March 2012. T...
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If you hold a transitional BAS agent registration (which expires on 29 February 2012), you will need to apply for renewal of...
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The Tax Practitioners Board has recently released two information sheets on required knowledge of the TASA including the Code...
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On 22 December 2011, the Institute lodged a submission with the Tax Practitioners Board on the Discussion Paper regarding sub...
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On 14 December 2011, the Chair of the Tax Practitioners Board issued a message through the Board’s website on matters impacti...
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The Tax Practitioners Board has released a draft discussion paper on reasonable care in ascertaining a client’s state of affa...
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The Institute has received a response in writing from the Tax Practitioners Board that the CA Program by itself will not be t...
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On 10 November 2011, the Chair of the Tax Practitioners Board issued a message through the Board’s website on matters impacti...
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The Tax Practitioners Board has released an Exposure Draft entitled Application of item 202 in Schedule 2 of the Tax Agent Se...
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Submissions
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The professional bodies have lodged a joint submission on Draft Goods and Services Tax Determination GSTD 2011/D5 concerning ...
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Treasury has released exposure draft miscellaneous amendments to the taxation laws, which include minor amendments to the pro...
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Exposure draft legislation has been released to clarify that Division 105 of the GST Act operates, rather than Division 58, i...
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Draft legislation to provide the Commissioner with a legislative discretion to hold refunds for verification prior to payment...
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The Institute lodged a joint submission on TD 2011/D12 on 17 February 2012. The draft TD concerns when income tax is a presen...
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The Institute has lodged a submission on the FBT reform: Living-away-from-home benefits consultation paper outlining various ...
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The Joint Accounting Bodies have lodged a submission on Treasury’s discussion paper dealing with proposed amendments to the C...
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The professional bodies have lodged a joint submission on Draft Goods and Services Tax Ruling GSTR 2011/D5 concerning the GST...
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Advisory Report on the Tax Laws Amendment (2011 Measures No. 9) Bill 2011
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On 3 February 2012, the Institute lodged a submission in relation to the review by the Inspector-General of Taxation into imp...
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Tax Forum
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On 14 December 2011, the Institute’s Tax Counsel, Yasser El-Ansary, attended a Treasury roundtable discussion in relation to ...
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On 5 December 2011, Rob Heferen, gave a speech entitled ‘Beyond the Tax Forum.’ It discusses how labour productivity could b...
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On 6 December 2011, the Institute’s tax counsel, Yasser El-Ansary, attended a meeting at Treasury to discuss how Treasury wil...
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On 29 November 2011, the government announced a number of measures as part of the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook stemmi...
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The Tasmanian State Tax Review Panel announced that it will not continue its formal taxation review due to the limited abilit...
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On 24 October 2011, the government released the video gallery and official transcripts for each session of the Tax Forum.
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The optimists of the tax world lay in hope that months of build-up and conjecture will now result in concrete tax reform meas...
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The government announced the terms of reference and appointments to a working group that will look at how our tax system can ...
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The concluding remarks of the Treasurer and the speech of the Assistant Treasurer indicated a number of action points arising...
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On 5 October 2011, the Institute’s Tax Counsel, Yasser El-Ansary addressed the tax forum regarding governance of the tax syst...
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Trust reform
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Treasury will conduct a series of consultation forums to listen to community views on the re-write of Division 6 of Part III ...
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On 24 January 2012, the Institute met with Treasury to discuss its consultation paper Modernising the taxation of trust incom...
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The government has released a consultation paper on modernising the taxation of trust income and removing impediments to the ...
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On 29 June 2011, the ATO announced an administrative concession in relation to the timing rules for trusts streaming franked ...
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The Institute has written to the government seeking amendments to deal with a number of issues in relation to the streaming r...
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The federal government has introduced new legislation relating to trusts.
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The Institute lodged a submission on the Exposure Draft legislation to allow beneficiaries of trusts to use the primary produ...
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The Institute lodged a submission on the ED legislation and Explanatory Material to improve the taxation of trusts by clarify...
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Exposure draft legislation and associated materials on improving the taxation of trust income have been released by the Assis...
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On 21 March 2011, the Institute and the other professional bodies lodged a joint submission on Treasury’s discussion paper on...
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