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• Tax Laws Amendment (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of two bills in relation to the managed investment trust (MIT) withholding tax, the bill amends the

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments to give effect to the increase in the MIT final withholding tax rate imposed by the proposed

  Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Act 2012

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Investment Manager Regime) Bill 2012

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  Date

  21 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to prescribe the tax treatment of returns, gains, losses and deductions on certain investments of widely held foreign funds;

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to clarify the tax treatment of returns, gains, losses and deductions on certain investments of widely held foreign funds for the 2010-11 and earlier income years where the fund has not lodged a tax return or had an assessment made of their income tax liability; and proposed

  Tax Laws Amendment (Cross-Border Transfer Pricing) Act (No. 1) 2012

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Income Tax Rates) Bill 2012

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  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills in relation to the Seasonal Labour Mobility Program and other taxation matters, the bill amends the

  Income Tax Rates Act 1986

  to merge the first two personal marginal tax rate thresholds for non-resident workers into a single threshold and align the rate for this new threshold with the second marginal tax rate for resident workers. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Cross-Border Transfer Pricing) Bill (No. 1) 2012

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  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to retrospectively: clarify that the internationally consistent transfer pricing rules contained in Australia’s tax treaties and incorporated into Australian law provide assessment authority to address treaty related transfer pricing; and ensure that the tax treaty transfer pricing rules are applied in a manner consistent with the relevant Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development guidance material; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Confidentiality of Taxpayer Information) Bill 2010

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  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  The bill: amends the

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to establish a framework to protect the confidentiality of taxpayer information by placing a general prohibition on the disclosure of taxpayer information except in certain specified circumstances; makes consequential amendments to 38 other Acts; contains a regulation making power; and repeals the

  A New Tax System (Bonuses for Older Australians) Act 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Clean Building Managed Investment Trust) Bill 2012

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  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Act 2008

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to provide a final withholding tax rate of 10 per cent on fund payments from eligible clean building managed investment trusts made to foreign residents in countries with which Australia has effective exchange of information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 5) Bill 2012

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  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: expand the application of the conservation tillage refundable tax offset by providing that an eligible no-till seeder can comprise just the tool, or the combination of the cart and the tool; phase out the mature age worker tax offset from 1 July 2012 for taxpayers born on or after 1 July 1957; and include The Diamond Jubilee Trust Australia in the list of deductible gift recipients; and

  A New Tax System (Wine Equalisation Tax) Act 1999

  to: provide that a wine producer will not be entitled to the wine equalisation tax producer rebate on other wine they use in manufacture, except where the producer of the other wine notifies the subsequent producer; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 3) Bill 2012

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  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills in relation to the Seasonal Labour Mobility Program and other taxation matters, the bill amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to apply a new final withholding tax to income derived by non-resident workers participating in the Seasonal Labour Mobility Program;

  Excise Act 1901

  and

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to specify the circumstances where blending the same types of gaseous fuels or the same types of aviation fuels, which have been taxed at different rates, are not treated as excise manufacture and are therefore subject to additional duty;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to retrospectively clarify that trust beneficiaries who are minors cannot receive the low income tax offset for unearned income earned through trust distributions; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: provide income tax exemptions for clean energy payments made to recipients of payments made under certain schemes; and make the employment termination payment tax offset dependent on an individual’s total taxable income. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Bill 2012

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  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Pay As You Go Withholding Non-compliance Tax Bill 2012, the bill amends the:

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  and four other Acts to: extend the director penalty regime so that directors are personally responsible for their company’s unpaid superannuation guarantee amounts; make directors and their associates liable to pay as you go (PAYG) withholding non-compliance tax in certain circumstances; and ensure that directors cannot discharge their director penalties by placing their company into administration or liquidation when PAYG withholding or superannuation guarantee remains unpaid and unreported three months after the due date;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Tax Laws Amendment (Taxation of Financial Arrangements) Act 2009

  in relation to the taxation of financial arrangements consolidation interaction; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to modify the consolidation tax cost setting rules and rights to future income rules. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 1) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: ensure that expenses incurred in gaining or producing a rebatable benefit are not deductible; provide that complying superannuation entities cannot account for gains and losses on certain assets on revenue account using the trading stock exception; and exempt from income tax ex-gratia payments to New Zealand non-protected special category visa holders for the floods that occurred in New South Wales and Queensland in early 2012;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to commence the phase out of the dependent spouse tax offset by restricting eligibility for the offset to taxpayers with a dependent spouse born before 1 July 1952; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Minerals Resource Rent Tax Act 2012

  , and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum