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  • Date
    28 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    A New Tax System (Luxury Car Tax) Act 1999
    to: reduce the maximum fuel consumption for a car to be considered fuel-efficient to 3.5 litres per 100 kilometres; and align the indexation rates for luxury car tax thresholds;
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    to remove income tax deductions for amounts of general interest charge and shortfall interest charge; and
    Taxation Administration Act 1953
    to extend the period within which the Commissioner of Taxation must notify a taxpayer of their decision to retain a business activity statement refund. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    27 Nov 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
    and
    Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Framework and Other Measures Act 2002
    to facilitate the return of responsibility and resources for administering Commonwealth business registers from the Australian Taxation Office to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, in winding up the Modernising Business Registers Program;
    Competition and Consumer Act 2010
    in relation to the regulation of safety and information standards and the penalty regime for industry codes;
    Housing Australia Act 2018
    to increase the cap on the Housing Australia Special Account to $4 billion; and
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    to update the list of deductible gift recipients. Also amends 6 Acts in the Treasury portfolio to make miscellaneous and technical amendments and 2 other Acts to make contingent amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    10 Oct 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Competition and Consumer Act 2010
    to replace the existing framework for mergers review with a mandatory and suspensory administrative system for acquisitions, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission as the first instance administrative decision-maker. Also makes consequential amendments to 5 Acts. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    12 Sep 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Taxation Administration Act 1953
    to: modify the foreign resident capital gains withholding payments regime to increase the withholding rate from 12.5 per cent to 15 per cent and remove the threshold before which withholding applies; allow employers to make single touch payroll declarations for extended periods; and provide the Commissioner of Taxation with a power to retain tax refunds for a 90-day period to enable the commissioner to obtain financial institution details for the refund to be paid into; and
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
    and
    Taxation Administration Act 1953
    to extend the time in which small or medium business taxpayers may apply to have a tax assessment amended. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    04 Jul 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Taxation (Multinational—Global and Domestic Minimum Tax) Imposition Bill 2024 and Treasury Laws Amendment (Multinational—Global and Domestic Minimum Tax) (Consequential) Bill 2024, the bill establishes a taxation framework to implement the Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) Rules (which ensure that multinational enterprises pay a minimum level of tax on the income arising in each of the jurisdictions in which they operate) and an Australian domestic minimum tax for certain multinational enterprise groups with an annual global revenue of at least EUR 750 million. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    04 Jul 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Taxation (Multinational—Global and Domestic Minimum Tax) Bill 2024 and Treasury Laws Amendment (Multinational—Global and Domestic Minimum Tax) (Consequential) Bill 2024, the bill imposes global and domestic minimum taxes in respect of profits of multinational enterprises that have been undertaxed. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    04 Jul 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Taxation (Multinational—Global and Domestic Minimum Tax) Bill 2024 and Taxation (Multinational—Global and Domestic Minimum Tax) Imposition Bill 2024, the bill amends 5 Acts to make amendments consequential on the introduction of global and domestic minimum taxes in Australia, including amendments to ensure that the taxes interact appropriately with existing Australian taxation laws. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    26 Jun 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Communications 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Telecommunications Act 1997
    to require the Australian Communications and Media Authority to establish and maintain an SMS Sender ID Register. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    05 Jun 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Introduced with the Capital Works (Build to Rent Misuse Tax) Bill 2024, the bill amends the:
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
    ,
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    and
    Taxation Administration Act 1953
    to provide incentives for investors to support the construction of new build to rent developments by increasing the capital works deduction rate to 4 per cent per year and reducing the final withholding tax rate on eligible fund payments from eligible managed investment trust investments to 15 per cent;
    National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
    to extend the application of the Credit Code to buy now, pay later contracts and establish low cost credit contracts as a new category of regulated credit;
    Medicare Levy Act 1986
    to exempt eligible lump sum payments in arrears from the Medicare Levy;
    Taxation Administration Act 1953
    to impose a new reporting obligation on certain large multinational enterprises;
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    to update the list of deductible gift recipients;
    Federal Financial Relations Act 2009
    to update funding arrangements to support payments from the Commonwealth to the States in relation to skills and workforce development; and
    Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997
    to extend the $20,000 instant asset write-off by 12 months until 30 June 2025. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Date
    27 Mar 2024 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends: the
    Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993
    and
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    to provide a legal basis for payment of advice fees from a member’s superannuation account and clarify the associated tax consequences; the
    Corporations Act 2001
    in relation to: ongoing fee renewal and consent requirements; financial services guide requirements; rules banning conflicted remuneration; and standardised consumer consent requirements for certain insurance commissions; the
    Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987
    to: align the petroleum resource rent tax general anti-avoidance provisions with the general anti-avoidance provisions in the
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
    ; and clarify the meaning of ‘exploration for petroleum’; the
    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
    to: clarify mining, quarrying or prospecting rights (MQPRs) cannot be depreciated for income tax purposes until they are used; clarify when income tax balancing adjustments occur to MQPRs; and amend the location offset and producer offset for films; 15 Acts to amend the process by which amendments to agreements with multilateral development banks are incorporated into domestic legislation; and 8 Acts to make miscellaneous and technical amendments to Treasury portfolio legislation. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum