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• Treasury Laws Amendment (Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  International Tax Agreements Act 1953

  to give legislative authority to the Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement to exclude from tax within Australia payments and credits made to Indian residents by Australian customers for technical services provided remotely that are covered by the Agreement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Australian Consumer Law Review) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Implements certain recommendations of the Australian Consumer Law Review Final Report by amending the:

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: amend evidentiary requirements to allow private litigants to rely on admitted facts from earlier proceedings; clarify the operation of unsolicited services provisions and unsolicited consumer agreements in a public place; ensure that fees or charges associated with pre-selected options must be included in the single price; strengthen the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) powers to obtain information about product safety; enable third parties to give effect to a community service order; and clarify the scope of the exemption from the consumer guarantees for the transport or storage of goods;

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  and

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: extend the unconscionable conduct protections to publicly listed companies; and enable the ACCC and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to investigate possible unfair contract terms; and

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  to: correct inconsistent terminology for financial products that involve interests in land; and clarify the application of consumer protections to financial products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Axe the Tampon Tax) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2018 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  RICE, Sen Janet 

  Summary

  Amends the

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  to remove the goods and services tax from sanitary products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Banking Executive Accountability and Related Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Banking Act 1959

  to: establish the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR) to impose accountability, remuneration, key personnel and notification obligations on authorised deposit-taking institutions and persons in director and senior executive roles; and provide the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) with additional powers to investigate potential breaches of the BEAR and extend these powers to APRA’s other supervisory functions; and

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  and

  Banking Act 1959

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Banking Measures No. 1) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Banking Act 1959

  to: enable the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to makes rules and directions relating to the provision of finance by non-authorised deposit-taking institution lenders which APRA has identified may materially contribute to risks of instability in the Australian financial system; remove restrictions on the use of the term ‘bank’; and insert an objects provision;

  National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009

  to: require that the suitability of a credit card contract is assessed on the consumer’s ability to repay the credit limit within a certain period; prohibit providers from making unsolicited credit limit offers in relation to credit card contracts and from retrospectively charging interest on credit card balances; and enable consumers to reduce credit card limits and terminate credit card contracts, including by online means; and

  Financial Sector (Collection of Data) Act 2001

  ,

  Insurance Act 1973

  ,

  Life Insurance Act 1995

  and

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

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions and Other Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Before House of Representatives 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Superannuation (Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions) Imposition Bill 2023, the bill amends: 7 Acts to make consequential amendments; the

  Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act 2012

  to enable the disclosure of information about a recognised assessment activity in relation to a registered entity in certain circumstances; the

  Financial Regulator Assessment Authority Act 2021

  to reduce the frequency of certain periodic reviews; 6 Acts to make miscellaneous and technical amendments in the Treasury portfolio; the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to provide four licensing exemptions for foreign financial services providers; and the

  Payment Systems (Regulation) Act 1998

  and 4 other Acts in relation to the payments regulatory framework. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Black Economy Taskforce Measures No. 1) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Feb 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to prohibit the production, distribution, possession and use of sales suppression tools in relation to entities that have Australian tax obligations; and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to require entities that provide courier or cleaning services to report to the Australian Taxation Office details of transactions that involve engaging other entities to undertake those courier or cleaning services for them. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Black Economy Taskforce Measures No. 2) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Tariff Amendment (Collecting Tobacco Duties at Manufacture) Bill 2018, the bill amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to remove the income tax deduction for certain payments if the associated withholding obligations have not been complied with;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to require entities providing road freight, information technology or security, investigation or surveillance services that have an ABN to report to the Australian Taxation Office information about transactions in which other entities are engaged to undertake those services on their behalf; and

  Excise Act 1901

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to establish a framework to make excise duty on tobacco due and payable at the time of manufacture. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Bourke Street Fund) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to include the Bourke Street Fund on the list of deductible gift recipients. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Combating Illegal Phoenixing) Bill 2019

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jul 2019 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: introduce new criminal offences and civil penalty provisions for company officers that fail to prevent the company from making creditor-defeating dispositions and other persons that facilitate a company making a creditor-defeating disposition; allow liquidators to apply for a court order in relation to a voidable creditor-defeating disposition; enable the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to make orders to recover, for the benefit of a company’s creditors, company property disposed of or benefits received under a voidable creditor-defeating disposition; and prevent directors from improperly backdating resignations or ceasing to be a director when this would leave a company with no directors; the

  A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to enable the Commissioner of Taxation to collect estimates of anticipated goods and services tax (GST) liabilities and make company directors personally liable for their company's GST liabilities in certain circumstances; the Taxation Administration Act 1953 to authorise the commissioner to retain tax refunds where a taxpayer has failed to lodge a return or provide other information that may affect the amount of a refund; and five Acts to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum