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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 currently led by Yasser El-Ansary, the Institute’s General Manager of Leadership & Quality.
Tax blogs
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21 May 2012 @ 2:30 | Yasser El-Ansary'Good tax administration is almost as important as good tax policy' – a strong message delivered by Shadow Treasurer Joe Hock...
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30 Apr 2012 @ 3:35 | Yasser El-AnsaryWe’re once again gearing up for the Federal Budget announcements next week by Treasurer Wayne Swan. With this in mind, I’ve b...
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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...
Tax agent services
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Financial advisor’s exemption from the tax agent services regime (TASR) was extended by one year to 1 July 2013.
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On 28 February 2012, the Chair of the Tax Practitioners Board issued a message through the Board’s website on matters impacti...
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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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On 22 December 2011, the Institute lodged a submission with the Tax Practitioners Board on the Discussion Paper regarding sub...
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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 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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Submissions
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On 16 May 2012, the Institute lodged a submission on the revised exposure draft reinstating the ‘in Australia’ special condit...
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On 16 May 2012, the Institute lodged a joint submission on TR 2012/D2, which deals with assessability of amounts received in ...
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The Institute, together with the other professional bodies, lodged a joint submission on PS LA 3541 (draft) on 20 April 2012 ...
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On 3 May 2012 the Institute, the Tax Institute and CTA Australia lodged a joint submission on the proposed amendments to the ...
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On 2 May 2012 the Institute, together with other professional bodies, lodged a joint submission on the proposed amendments to...
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The Institute, together with the other professional bodies, lodged a joint submission on GSTR 2012/D2 on 30 April 2012 regard...
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The Institute, together with the other professional bodies, lodged a joint submission on GSTR 2012/D1 on 27 April 2012 regard...
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The Institute, together with the other professional bodies, lodged a joint submission on Draft Taxation Determination TD 2012...
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The Institute lodged a submission on the exposure draft of proposed amendments to implement the first stage of the transfer p...
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The Institute lodged a joint submission on Draft Practice Statement Law Administration PS LA 3569 on 15 April 2012.
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Tax Forum
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The Assistant Treasurer gave a speech on 18 May 2012 on developing tax policy in areas such as Division 7A, not-for-profits, ...
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On 13 April 2012, the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer released the Business Tax Working Group final report on the tax tre...
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On 21 March, the Institute wrote to the Deputy Prime Minister, expressing our concerns with the timeframes associated with th...
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The Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer gave a speech on 16 March 2012 discussing the government’s progress on some of the in...
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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 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 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 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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Trust reform
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The ATO is commencing a campaign to educate trustees and their advisers that trustee resolutions for the 2012 and subsequent ...
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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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