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02 Dec 2019
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Agriculture
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Amends the
Wine Australia Act 2013
to provide for Wine Australia to establish and maintain a directory of labels that are attached to grape products such as wine intended for export from Australia.
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04 Jul 2019
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House of Representatives
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Act
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Water Resources, Drought, Rural Finance, Natural Disaster and Emergency Management
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Amends the
Water Act 2007
to provide for a standing Indigenous member position on the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.
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01 Aug 2019
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House of Representatives
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Veterans' Affairs
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Amends the
Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
to: extend eligibility for the partner service pension to former partners of veterans, regardless of marital status, for 12 months after separation from the veteran partner or indefinitely where specified circumstances exist (or until they enter into a new relationship); and reclassify service on submarine special operations between 1 January 1993 and 12 May 1997 as operational and qualifying service; and Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986
and Defence Services Homes Act 1918
to amend certain definitions to ensure consistency with changes to the definition of marriage.
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18 Sep 2019
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House of Representatives
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Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business
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Part of a package of three bills to implement a tuition protection model for students participating in the VET Student Loans program and for higher education students accessing FEE-HELP or HECS-HELP assistance at a private education provider or TAFE, the bill imposes the VSL tuition protection levy, specifies the amounts that are payable by various classes of providers, and prescribes the levy components and the manner in which, and by whom, they will be determined each year.
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27 Nov 2019
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House of Representatives
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Treasury
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Amends the
Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992
to provide that employees under workplace determinations or enterprise agreements have the right to choose their superannuation fund.
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24 Jul 2019
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House of Representatives
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Treasury
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Further to the Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty Consequential Amendments Bill 2019 and Passenger Movement Charge Amendment (Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty) Bill 2019, the bill gives effect to tax arrangements required to implement the Treaty Between Australia and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste Establishing Their Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea (New York, 6 March 2018) by amending the
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to provide ‘conditions equivalent’ to participants in transitioned petroleum activities affected by the treaty. Also makes consequential amendments to six Acts.
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02 Jul 2019
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House of Representatives
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Treasury
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Amends the:
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to: increase the base and maximum amounts of the low and middle income tax offset to $255 and $1080, respectively, for the 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 and 2021-22 financial years; and increase the maximum amount of the low income tax offset from $645 to $700 from the 2022-23 financial year; and Income Tax Rates Act 1986
to reduce the tax payable by individuals from the 2022-23 financial year by increasing the top threshold of the 19 per cent income tax bracket from $41 000 to $45 000, and from the 2024-25 financial year by reducing the 32.5 per cent income tax rate to 30 per cent.
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05 Dec 2019
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House of Representatives
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Treasury
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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.
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04 Dec 2019
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House of Representatives
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Treasury
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Introduced with the Commonwealth Registers Bill 2019, Business Names Registration (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019, Corporations (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 and National Consumer Credit Protection (Fees) Amendment (Registries Modernisation) Bill 2019 to create a new Commonwealth business registry regime, the bill: amends 12 Acts to bring 35 existing business registers into the new regime; and
Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006
, Corporations Act 2001
, Income Tax Assessment Act 1936
and Taxation Administration Act 1953
to introduce a director identification number requirement.
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23 Oct 2019
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House of Representatives
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Treasury
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Introduced with the Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Fees Imposition Amendment (Near-new Dwelling Interests) Bill 2019, the bill amends the:
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
to: remove the entitlement to the capital gains tax (CGT) main residence exemption for foreign residents; and clarify that, for the purpose of determining whether an entity’s underlying value is principally derived from taxable Australian real property under the foreign resident CGT regime, the principal asset test is applied on an associate inclusive basis; Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997
to provide for transitional arrangements in relation to the main residence exemption; Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975
to require a reconciliation payment to be made by developers who sell dwellings to foreign persons under a near-new dwelling exemption certificate; and Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
and Taxation Administration Act 1953
to provide an additional affordable housing capital gains discount of up to 10 per cent.
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