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• Trade Practices Amendment (Credit Card Reform) Bill 2002 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Sep 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CONROY, Sen Stephen 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to give the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission power to deal with any price exploitation arising from changes in the regulation of credit card fees. 

  Bill

• Trade Practices Amendment (Public Liability Insurance) Bill 2002 [No. 2]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Sep 2002 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  CONROY, Sen Stephen 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974 to give the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission power to monitor and deal with any price exploitation arising from changes in the law in relation to public liability. 

  Bill

• Telecommunications Competition Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Sep 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts portfoli 

  Summary

  Facilitates increased competition and investment in the telecommunications industry by amending the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  ,

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  and

  Telecommunications (Carrier Licence Charges) Act 1997

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Practices Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Sep 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to: clarify the prohibition of pyramid selling; amend provisions relating to defences to prosecutions; and re-insert a penalty which was inadvertently omitted. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Taxation Laws Amendment (Venture Capital) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Nov 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Venture Capital Bill 2002, the bill amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986

  to: amend the existing tax treatment of venture capital limited partnerships and Australian venture capital funds of funds and the capital gains tax treatment of “carried interests”; and provide a tax exemption to eligible non-resident partners of these limited partnerships on profits from the disposal of investments in eligible venture capital businesses. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Pooled Development Funds Act 1992

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Taxation Laws Amendment (Earlier Access to Farm Management Deposits) Bill 2002

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Dec 2002 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to: exempt farmers in “exceptional circumstances” declared areas from the requirement that farm management deposits have to be held for 12 months in order to qualify for tax concessions; and make minor amendments in relation to the operation of the farm management deposit scheme. Also contains application provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2004

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Jun 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to provide tax exemptions for Australian residents receiving Second World War compensation payments from overseas funds;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: update and simplify the listing of specifically-listed deductible gift recipients; allow deductions for cash donations to deductible gift recipients to be spread over a period of up to 5 years; and provide an automatic capital gains tax roll-over for financial services providers during the financial services reform transitional period;

  Crimes (Taxation Offences) Act 1980

  to correct a technical deficiency with the deeming mechanism; and clarify the interpretation of offences under the Criminal Code;

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to allow certain entities with foreign losses to be excluded from a consolidated group for a transitional period;

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

  to ensure that certain supplies made as a result of the consolidation regime are not taxable supplies;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to include imputation rules for life insurance companies;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to exclude from the overseas forces tax offset provisions periods of service for which an income tax exemption for foreign employment income is available; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  ,

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to treat foreign hybrids as partnerships. Also makes technical amendments to 8 Acts to repeal redundant provisions and correct terminology, section references and cross-references and contains application and transitional provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Taxation Laws Amendment (A Simpler Business Activity Statement) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Aug 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

   

  Bill

• Taxation Laws Amendment (Superannuation Contributions Splitting) Bill 2003

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Sep 2003 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  and

  Superannuation Contributions Tax (Assessment and Collection) Act 1997

  to provide for the taxation treatment of split superannuation contributions between a fund-contributing member and their spouse. Details of the operation of superannuation contributions splitting will be specified in regulations under the

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  and the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Truth in Food Labelling Bill 2003 [2005]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Oct 2003 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Sponsor

  BROWN, Sen Bob 

  Summary

  Provides for a food labelling system in Australia which will require the labelling of all genetically modified foods and not just those foods that still have detectable levels of genetically modified protein or DNA left after processing. 

  Bill