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• Excise Tariff Amendment (Fuel Tax Reform and Other Measures) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of 4 bills to replace the current system of fuel tax concessions with a single fuel tax credit system from 1 July 2006, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to: simplify and clarify the existing excise tariff (including removing coal from the tariff) to ensure the tariff relates to classification of goods (for the purpose of taxing them) and does not include concessional rates of duty (with any concessional treatment to be delivered by the proposed

  Fuel Tax Act 2006

  ); remove the various rates applying to fuel and replace them with two rates of duty, one for aviation fuel and one for other fuels; include fuels manufactured from sources other than petroleum, oil shale or coal; exclude certain recycled product; remove redundant provisions; and apply the non-stick tobacco excise rate to snuff tobacco. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Personal Tax Reduction and Improved Depreciation Arrangements) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Rates Act 1986

  to: reduce the 47 and 42 per cent personal income tax rates to 45 and 40 per cent, respectively; and increase the personal income tax thresholds for all tax brackets;

  Fringe Benefits Tax Act 1986

  to reduce the fringe benefits tax rate;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to: increase the low income tax offset; and increase the income threshold from which the tax offset begins to phase-out;

  Medicare Levy Act 1986

  to: increase the Medicare levy income threshold for taxpayers who are eligible for the senior Australians tax offset; and reduce the Medicare levy phase-in rate; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to increase deductions for the decline in value of depreciating assets under the diminishing value method and project pools for assets that a taxpayer starts to hold on or after 10 May 2006. Also makes amendments consequential on the reduction in personal income tax rates to 7 other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to allow manufacturers of medicines, blood and tissues to apply for a manufacturing licence electronically using the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s e-business system. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australia-Japan Foundation (Repeal and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Foreign Affairs and Trade 

  Summary

  Following government endorsement of the recommendations of the Review of the Corporate Governance of Statutory Authorities and Office Holders (the Uhrig Review), the bill repeals the

  Australia-Japan Foundation Act 1976

  to abolish the Australia-Japan Foundation and enable it to be re-established as a non-statutory, unincorporated bilateral body within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Child Support Legislation Amendment (Reform of the Child Support Scheme—Initial Measures) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to: increase and index the minimum annual child support payment; provide for a new method of assessing a parent’s capacity to earn; and reduce the cap on adjusted income for child support assessment purposes and make a consequential amendment to the proposed

  Child Support Legislation Amendment Act 2006

  ;

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to increase the limit on prescribed non-agency payments from 25 to 30 per cent; and

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  and

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to address a constitutional issue with the application of the Child Support Scheme to exnuptial children in Western Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Veterans' Entitlements Legislation Amendment (One-off Payments to Increase Assistance for Older Australians and Carers and Other Measures) Bill 2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  ,

  Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide one-off payments to certain older Australians and carers. Also provides for administrative schemes (to be determined by legislative instrument) for payments if the statutory one-off payments regime does not produce an appropriate result. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2006-2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Appropriates a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for expenditure in relation to the parliamentary departments in respect of the year ending on 30 June 2007. 

  Bill

• Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2006-2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Appropriates a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for service of the year ending on 30 June 2007. 

  Bill

• Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2006-2007

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Appropriates a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for certain expenditure in respect of the year ending on 30 June 2007. 

  Bill

• Appropriation Bill (No. 5) 2005-2006

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration 

  Summary

  Appropriates a sum out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, additional to the sums appropriated by

  Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2005-2006

  and

  Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2005-2006

  , for the service of the year ending on 30 June 2006. 

  Bill