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  • Income Tax Rates Amendment (Working Holiday Maker Reform) Bill 2016

    Track (What's this?)

    Date
    12 Oct 2016 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Part of a package of four bills in relation to tax arrangements for working holiday makers, the bill amends the
    Income Tax Rates Act 1986
    to apply a 19 per cent income tax rate to assessable income derived by working holiday makers on amounts up to $37 000, with ordinary tax rates applying for taxable income exceeding this amount. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Industry Research and Development Amendment (Innovation and Science Australia) Bill 2016

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    Date
    01 Sep 2016 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Industry, Innovation and Science 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Industry Research and Development Act 1986
    to transition Innovation Australia to become Innovation and Science Australia, an independent body responsible for strategic advice on all industry, innovation, science and research matters; and create a statutory framework to provide legislative authority for Commonwealth spending activities in relation to industry, innovation, science and research programs. Also makes consequential amendments to five Acts. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • International Tax Agreements Amendment Bill 2016

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    Date
    01 Sep 2016 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the
    International Tax Agreements Act 1953
    to give legislative effect to the Agreement between Australia and the Federal Republic of Germany for the Elimination of Double Taxation with respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion and Avoidance and its Protocol, signed at Berlin on 12 November 2015; and the
    International Tax Agreements Act 1953
    and
    Taxation (Interest on Overpayments and Early Payments) Act 1983
    to make consequential amendments. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Industry Research and Development Amendment (Innovation and Science Australia) Bill 2016

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    Date
    04 May 2016 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Not Proceeding 
    Portfolio
    Industry 
    Summary
    Amends the
    Industry Research and Development Act 1986
    to transition Innovation Australia to become Innovation and Science Australia, an independent body responsible for strategic advice on all industry, innovation, science and research matters; and create a statutory framework to provide legislative authority for Commonwealth spending activities in relation to industry, innovation, science and research programs. Also makes consequential amendments to five Acts. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Income Tax (Attribution Managed Investment Trusts—Offsets) Bill 2015

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    Date
    03 Dec 2015 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Part of a package of four bills to establish a new tax system for certain managed investment trusts, the bill imposes tax on trustees of an attribution management investment trust in relation to amounts of a character relating to tax offsets in certain circumstances. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Income Tax Rates Amendment (Managed Investment Trusts) Bill 2015

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    Date
    03 Dec 2015 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Part of a package of four bills to establish a new tax system for certain managed investment trusts, the bill amends the
    Income Tax Rates Act 1986
    to specify the rate of tax payable by trustees of attribution management investment trusts in certain circumstances. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Insolvency Law Reform Bill 2015

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    Date
    03 Dec 2015 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Treasury 
    Summary
    Amends the:
    Bankruptcy Act 1966
    and
    Corporations Act 2001
    to align the registration and disciplinary frameworks that apply to registered liquidators and registered trustees (through the rules made by the Insolvency Practice Schedule (Bankruptcy) and Insolvency Practice Schedule (Corporations)); and align a range of specific rules relating to the handling of personal bankruptcies and corporate external administrations;
    Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001
    to provide the Australian Securities and Investments Commission with further powers to assist in the oversight of the regulation of registered liquidators;
    Corporations Act 2001
    in relation to: payments for property; use of a company’s former name; termination of a deed of company arrangement; relation-back day; and the lodgement of documents with ASIC which require a notice to be in the prescribed form; and
    Corporations Act 2001
    and
    Private Health Insurance (Prudential Supervision) Act 2015
    in relation to notifications of contraventions of deeds of company arrangement. Also makes consequential amendments to 25 Acts. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Import Processing Charges Amendment Bill 2015

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    Date
    16 Sep 2015 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Immigration and Border Protection 
    Summary
    Part of a package of three bills to implement certain recommendations from the Joint Review of Border Fees, Charges and Taxes, the bill amends the
    Import Processing Charges Act 2001
    to: increase the import processing charges imposed on import and warehouse declarations; remove the price differential between charges for sea cargo, air cargo and postal import declarations and warehouse declarations; and introduce a consistent price differential between electronically and manually lodged import declarations. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Imported Food Charges (Collection) Bill 2015

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    Date
    03 Jun 2015 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Agriculture 
    Summary
    Part of a package of four bills to manage imported food, the bill provides for the collection of imported food charges by: providing that regulations prescribe when imported food charges are due and payable; making the Commonwealth notionally liable to pay fees, including late payment fees; requiring a late payment fee to be paid when a charge is not paid on time; empowering the secretary to take certain action when a charge or late payment fee is not paid; and providing for the administration of the charges. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

  • Imported Food Charges (Imposition—Customs) Bill 2015

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    Date
    03 Jun 2015 
    Chamber
    House of Representatives 
    Status
    Act 
    Portfolio
    Agriculture 
    Summary
    Part of a package of four bills to manage imported food, the bill imposes an imported food charge, to the extent that it is a duty of customs. 

    Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

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