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18th Annual States’ Taxation Conference

Published on 27 Jul 2018 | Took place at Park Hyatt, Melbourne, National

The States’ Taxation Conference remains the only national conference covering all state and territory taxes in one technical program. Some topics included recent cases on valuations and briefing experts, the Commissioner’s powers of administration, current digital transformation projects and compliance initiatives in the Revenue Offices.

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Individual sessions

Recent decisions on valuations and briefing experts

Author(s):  John MIDDLETON

This paper covers:

  • recent cases
  • placer dome
  • RCF IV and V
  • GST withholding issues
  • getting the best out of valuers and other experts in light of recent decisions.
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Alienation of income – Are they “taxable wages”?

Author(s):  Paul HOCKRIDGE,  Alec Pettigrew

This paper covers:

  • the meaning of wages for payroll tax purposes
  • payments for image rights - income tax and capital gains tax
  • the payroll tax implications of the alienation of image rights
  • benefits
  • contractor provisions
  • employment agent contracts.
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Not my money to give away

Author(s):  David W MARKS

This paper covers:

  • fleet street casuals
  • developments in New Zealand
  • applications of “fleet street casuals” that would not be employed in Australia
  • centrality of statute
  • development of an Australian case law
  • offering to settle – costs consequences
  • attempts to force particular action by an official
  • settlement negotiations
  • true scope of the power.

 

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Mock tribunal hearing

Author(s):  Joanna SEVE,  Matthew SEALEY,  Timothy Grace

This paper covers:

  • agreed facts
  • applicant’s submissions
  • respondent’s submissions statement of legal contentions
  • diagram and summary of assessments
  • joint list of authorities with attached copies of selected legislative provisions.
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Interpretation of the “contractor” and “employment agents” provisions in a medical practitioner scenario

Author(s):  Shane Pinto

This paper covers:

  • interpretation of specific anti-avoidance provisions
  • the legislative provisions
  • a case study – medical practitioner engages an entity to provide professional administration and support services
  • case law – application of specific-anti avoidance provisions to the medical practitioner scenario – an analysis and critique
  • case study analysis
  • takeaways.
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Lexicon of interests in property

Author(s):  John W DE WIJN

This paper covers lexicon of interests in property.

 

 

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Life cycle of a renewables energy project

Author(s):  Steven PATERSON

This paper covers:

  • taxation of land interests
  • exploration phase
  • selldown to developer
  • investment changes in operations phase. 
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Proposals for payroll tax reform

Author(s):  Craig BOWIE

This paper covers:

  • a short outline of the grouping provisions' history
  • the purpose of the grouping provisions
  • the scope of the grouping provisions
  • the grouping provisions – specific comments
  • exclusion orders
  • can/should the power to exclude extend to smaller groups?
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2017-18 State taxes legislative update

Author(s):  David Ellis

This paper covers state taxes legislative update.

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Compliance across the jurisdictions

Author(s):  Rod RICHARDSON,  Steven Polites

This presentation covers:

  • where does compliance begin?
  • a risk based approach
  • data - its sources and uses
  • profiling compliance and non-compliance
  • automated investigations
  • business intelligence - case examples
  • strategies that assist voluntary compliance
  • reporting on the efficacy of our legislation
  • what keeps us awake at night.
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