TOTAL RESULTS: 244

• Income Tax Rates Amendment (Working Holiday Maker Reform) Bill 2016 (No. 2)

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills in relation to tax arrangements for working holiday makers, the bill amends the

  Income Tax Rates Act 1986

  to apply a 15 per cent income tax rate to assessable income derived by working holiday makers on amounts up to $37 000, with ordinary tax rates applying for taxable income exceeding this amount. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Nov 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications and the Arts 

  Summary

  Implements the Government’s response to the recommendations of the 2015

  Review of Illegal Offshore Wagering

  , the bill amends the:

  Interactive Gambling Act 2001

  to: clarify the services to which the Act applies by recognising prohibited interactive gambling services and regulated interactive gambling services; prohibit a person providing regulated interactive gambling services to Australians unless the person holds a licence under the law of an Australian state and territory; introduce a civil penalty regime to be enforced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA); prohibit ‘click to call’ in-play betting services; streamline complaints handling and investigation processes; establish a register of eligible regulated interactive gambling services to be published on the ACMA website; and enable the minister to determine by legislative instrument that a specific thing is, or is not, a sporting event for the purposes of the Act; Interactive Gambling Regulations 2001 to make consequential amendments; and

  Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005

  to enable the ACMA to disclose certain information to foreign regulators and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Income Tax Rates Amendment (Working Holiday Maker Reform) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Oct 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills in relation to tax arrangements for working holiday makers, the bill amends the

  Income Tax Rates Act 1986

  to apply a 19 per cent income tax rate to assessable income derived by working holiday makers on amounts up to $37 000, with ordinary tax rates applying for taxable income exceeding this amount. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Industry Research and Development Amendment (Innovation and Science Australia) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Innovation and Science 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Industry Research and Development Act 1986

  to transition Innovation Australia to become Innovation and Science Australia, an independent body responsible for strategic advice on all industry, innovation, science and research matters; and create a statutory framework to provide legislative authority for Commonwealth spending activities in relation to industry, innovation, science and research programs. Also makes consequential amendments to five Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  International Tax Agreements Act 1953

  to give legislative effect to the Agreement between Australia and the Federal Republic of Germany for the Elimination of Double Taxation with respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion and Avoidance and its Protocol, signed at Berlin on 12 November 2015; and the

  International Tax Agreements Act 1953

  and

  Taxation (Interest on Overpayments and Early Payments) Act 1983

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Industry Research and Development Amendment (Innovation and Science Australia) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 May 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Industry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Industry Research and Development Act 1986

  to transition Innovation Australia to become Innovation and Science Australia, an independent body responsible for strategic advice on all industry, innovation, science and research matters; and create a statutory framework to provide legislative authority for Commonwealth spending activities in relation to industry, innovation, science and research programs. Also makes consequential amendments to five Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Income Tax (Attribution Managed Investment Trusts—Offsets) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills to establish a new tax system for certain managed investment trusts, the bill imposes tax on trustees of an attribution management investment trust in relation to amounts of a character relating to tax offsets in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Income Tax Rates Amendment (Managed Investment Trusts) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of four bills to establish a new tax system for certain managed investment trusts, the bill amends the

  Income Tax Rates Act 1986

  to specify the rate of tax payable by trustees of attribution management investment trusts in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Insolvency Law Reform Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Bankruptcy Act 1966

  and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to align the registration and disciplinary frameworks that apply to registered liquidators and registered trustees (through the rules made by the Insolvency Practice Schedule (Bankruptcy) and Insolvency Practice Schedule (Corporations)); and align a range of specific rules relating to the handling of personal bankruptcies and corporate external administrations;

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to provide the Australian Securities and Investments Commission with further powers to assist in the oversight of the regulation of registered liquidators;

  Corporations Act 2001

  in relation to: payments for property; use of a company’s former name; termination of a deed of company arrangement; relation-back day; and the lodgement of documents with ASIC which require a notice to be in the prescribed form; and

  Corporations Act 2001

  and

  Private Health Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2015

  in relation to notifications of contraventions of deeds of company arrangement. Also makes consequential amendments to 25 Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Interactive Gambling Amendment (Sports Betting Reform) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  XENOPHON, Sen Nick 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Interactive Gambling Act 2001

  to: require gambling services to provide prescribed training to certain employees; enable the Federal Circuit Court of Australia to grant injunctions for the purposes of transaction blocking; place restrictions on the conduct of restricted wagering services in relation to sports betting and provide for offences and civil penalties if they are contravened; place restrictions on the broadcasting of restricted wagering service advertisements and provide for offences and civil penalties if they are contravened; provide for the compliance and enforcement of the new offences and civil penalty provisions; require the Interactive Gambling Regulator to keep a register of individuals who wish to self-exclude from restricted wagering services and provide for the administration of, and the protection of information in, the register; and provide for the appointment of the Interactive Gambling Regulator and the functions of the position; and

  Privacy Act 1988

  to provide that Australian Privacy Principle 7 (direct marketing) does not apply to the extent that restricted wagering services provisions of the

  Interactive Gambling Act 2001

  apply. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum