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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...
Submissions
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On 3 February 2012 the Institute lodged a submission regarding the Business Tax Working Group’s interim report on the tax tre...
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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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On 30 January 2012, the Institute lodged with Treasury its Budget submission for fiscal year 2012-13.
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The Institute lodged a joint submission on TD 2011/D12 on 20 January 2012. The draft TD concerns temporary absences from fore...
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On 12 January 2012, a joint submission was made regarding the retrospective operation of the proposed TOFA and consolidation ...
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On 23 December 2011, the Institute lodged a submission on the Treasury consultation paper on a definition of charity.
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The Institute lodged a joint submission on TD 2011/D11 on 23 December 2011. The draft TD looks at when the shortfall interest...
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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 16 December 2011 the Institute lodged a submission with Treasury regarding the extension of CGT roll-over relief for excha...
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On 16 December 2011, the Institute lodged a submission on the exposure draft legislation and explanatory material for the tax...
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Tax agent services
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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 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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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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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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The Tax Practitioners Board has recently released two information sheets on Reports or other advice incorporating tax agent s...
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Carbon price
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On Tuesday 8 November 2011, the Senate voted on and passed into law the Clean Energy Future legislative package, which amongs...
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On 12 October 2011, the Clean Energy Bill and related Bills were passed by the House of Representatives.
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On 21 September 2011, the government released updated modelling of the impact of a carbon price which confirms the Australian...
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On 13 September 2011, the Clean Energy Bill 2011 and related Bills were introduced into Parliament.
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On 25 August 2011, the Institute lodged a submission on the Clean Energy Legislative Package released by the government on 28...
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The Institute met with Treasury on 19 August 2011 to discuss the income tax, GST and stamp duty treatment of emissions units ...
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The Institute met with Treasury on 17 August 2011 to discuss the excise and fuel tax credit amendments under the Clean Energy...
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On 28 July 2011, the government released exposure drafts of the four key bills in the government’s clean energy legislative p...
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The government should consider the tax policy options as part of the development of Australia’s comprehensive strategy to tra...
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The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (the Institute) is calling for a series of complementary tax measures to ...
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