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• Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Corrective Services Authorities) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to provide state and territory corrective services authorities with the ability to access telecommunications data. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Transport Security Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Aviation Transport Security Act 2004

  and

  Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003

  to: expand the definition of unlawful interference; establish an additional purpose of safeguarding against operational interference and expanding the existing security direction power to include making directions in relation to a specific threat of operational interference; enable the minister to declare critical industry participants, with additional requirements; include additional requirements in relation to security plans and programs; provide for the use and disclosure of protected information; expand the powers of aviation and maritime security inspectors to undertake compliance activities; apply the investigation and civil penalty provisions of the

  Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014

  ; remove timeframes in relation to the provision of certain information; and require mandatory reporting of cyber security incidents; and

  Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Modernising Business Communications) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: allow all documents to be signed or executed electronically; allow certain additional categories of documents to be sent electronically; amend the criteria with which an entity must comply before they are relieved from their obligations to provide a document to a member; and make consequential amendments; the

  Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Framework and Other Measures Act 2022

  and

  Corporations Act 2001

  to make amendments contingent on the commencement of the

  Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Framework and Other Measures Act 2022

  ; the

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to allow documents under the National Credit Code to be given in either physical or electronic form, or by the provision of an electronic postcard; the

  National Consumer Credit Protection (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Act 2009

  to include application, transitional and saving provisions; the

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Excise Act 1901

  and

  Small Superannuation Accounts Act 1995

  to remove certain requirements relating to payments; and 11 Acts to provide that notices required or permitted to be published in newspapers can now be published in a manner that results in the notice being accessible to the public and reasonably prominent. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Streamlining and Improving Economic Outcomes for Australians) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: provide certain foreign financial service providers with exemptions from the requirement to hold an Australian financial services licence and from the fit and proper person test; and enable the minister to determine regulators that administer broadly comparable regulatory regimes;

  Corporations Act 2001

  ,

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to impose financial reporting and auditing requirements on registrable superannuation entities that are consistent with those that currently apply to public companies and registered schemes; and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable small business entities to apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) for an order staying, or otherwise affecting, the operation or implementation of decisions of the Commissioner of Taxation that are being reviewed by the AAT. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Faster Internet for Regional Australia) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  HAINES, Helen, MP 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: include performance benchmarks for statutory infrastructure providers (SIPs) relating to internet connections, fault rectifications, appointment keeping and internet speed; and require SIPs to disclose performance data to the Australian Communications and Media Authority for immediate publication on a quarterly basis, or within 30 days following a serious outage; and

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Concession for Australian Medical Innovations) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to introduce the patent box regime to provide concessional tax treatment for ordinary and statutory income derived by a corporate taxpayer from exploiting a medical or biotechnology patent for the financial years commencing on or after 1 July 2022; and

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to include application and transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Tax Integrity and Supporting Business Investment) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Income Tax Amendment (Labour Mobility Program) Bill 2022, the bill amends the:

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to direct an entity to complete an approved record-keeping course as an alternative to financial penalties where the commissioner reasonably believes the entity has failed to comply with its tax-related record-keeping obligations;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to make consequential amendments;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide income tax and withholding tax exemptions for the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and its wholly owned subsidiary established for the purpose of delivering the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: provide the choice to self assess the effective life of certain intangible depreciating assets rather than using the statutory effective life in working out the decline in value; and provide an income tax exemption for certain recovery grants made to small businesses and primary producers impacted by Cyclone Seroja in April 2021;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  and

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to: amend the existing unfair contract terms provisions; introduce a civil penalty regime prohibiting the use and reliance on unfair contract terms in standard form contracts; and expand the class of contracts covered by the unfair contract terms provisions; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and three other taxation Acts to reduce the tax on certain income earned by foreign resident workers participating in the Australian Agriculture Worker Program or the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme from 32.5 per cent to 15 per cent. Also makes minor and technical amendments to 12 Acts administered in the Treasury, Social Services and Veterans' Affairs portfolios. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 7) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Aug 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to require electronic platform operators to provide information on transactions made through the platform to the Australian Taxation Office;

  Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Consumers First—Establishment of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority) Act 2018

  to facilitate the closure and any transitional arrangements associated with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority replacing the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal; and

  Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to remove the $250 non-deductible threshold for work-related self-education expenses. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (2020 Measures No. 4) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to make refunds of large-scale generation shortfall charges non-assessable non-exempt income for income tax purposes;

  Treasury Laws Amendment (Putting Consumers First—Establishment of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority) Act 2018

  to: facilitate the closure and any transitional arrangements associated with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) replacing the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT); provide for the transfer of records and documents from the SCT to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission; include a power for the Federal Court to remit cases back to AFCA; and include a rule-making power to allow the minister to prescribe matters of a transitional nature;

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to increase the maximum amount of penalty units that can be included in regulations that prescribe an industry code from 300 to 600 penalty units; and

  Coronavirus Economic Response Package Omnibus (Measures No. 2) Act 2020

  to extend the temporary mechanism which enables ministers to change arrangements for meeting information and documentary requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Research and Development Tax Incentive) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Tax Laws Amendment (Research and Development) Act 2015

  to: permanently increase the research and development (R&D) expenditure threshold from $100 million to $150 million; link the R&D tax offset for refundable R&D tax offset claimants to their corporate tax rates plus a 13.5 percentage point premium; cap the refundability of the R&D tax offset at $4 million per annum; and increase the targeting of the R&D tax incentive to larger R&D entities with high levels of R&D intensity;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to extend the concept of tax benefits in the general anti-avoidance rule in Part IVA of the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to include the R&D tax offset;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Income Tax Rates Act 1986

  and

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to: remake and consolidate provisions relating to clawback of R&D recoupments and feedstock adjustments; introduce a new uniform clawback rule that applies for recoupments, feedstock adjustments and balancing adjustment amounts included in an R&D entity's assessable income; and introduce a new catch-up rule for R&D assets;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to require the Commissioner of Taxation to publish information about relevant activities of R&D entities claiming the R&D tax offset following a two-year delay;

  Industry Research and Development Act 1986

  (IR&D Act) to: provide for the Board of Innovation and Science Australia (ISA) to make a determination, by notifiable instrument, about how it will exercise its powers and perform its functions and duties; and expand the existing power of the Board of ISA and its committees to delegate some or all of their functions to include certain members of the Australian Public Service; and Industry Research and Development Decision-making Principles 2011 to provide that extensions of time granted under the IR&D Act may relate to certain applications. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum