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Submissions - Treasury and ATO

Taxpayers Australia makes regular submissions to the Government on taxation and superannuation issues. Parliamentary submissions on the following Bills and discussion papers are available for you to download.

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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks

Joint submission – CPA, ICAA, IPA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia - Draft Taxation Determination TD 2012/D1 - April 2012
Income Tax: when is income tax of a private company a ‘present legal obligation’ for the purposes of the distributable surplus calculation under subsection 109Y(2) of Division 7A of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936?
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Taxpayers Australia's Benchmarking Submission to the Inspector General of Taxation - February 2012
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Taxpayers Australia's LAFHA Submission to the Department of Treasury - February 2012
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Taxpayers Australia's Pre-Budget Submission to the Department of Treasury - January 2012
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, IPA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Draft TD 2011/D9 and TD 2011/D10 - November 2011
TD 2011/D9: Employee share schemes: If a share in a ‘no goodwill' professional practice company is acquired by a practitioner-shareholder (or a new practitioner -shareholder), will the Commissioner accept, for the purposes of determining whether that acquisition was at a discount within the meaning of subsection 83A-20(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, that the goodwill of the company can be taken to have no value?
TD 2011/D10: Income tax: When considering the application of subsection 159GZZZQ(2) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 to an exiting vendor practitioner-shareholder by a 'no goodwill' incorporated professional practice, will the Commissioner consider that the buy-back price is less than the market value of the shares merely because the price is calculated not to reflect the underlying goodwill of the company?
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, IPA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on GSTR 2001/8DA - November 2011
Goods and services tax: apportioning the consideration for a supply that includes taxable and non-taxable par
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, IPA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on GSTR 2011/D3 - October 2011
Goods and services tax: GST and loyalty programmes
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, IPA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on GSTR 2011/D2 - August 2011
Goods and services tax: residential premises and commercial residential premises
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, IPA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Determination TD 2011/D8 - July 2011
Income tax: does a taxpayer's purpose of ‘paying their home loan off sooner' mean that Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 cannot apply to an ‘investment loan interest payment arrangement' of the type described in this Taxation Determination?
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, IPA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Determination TD 2011/D7 - July 2011
Income tax: Division 7A: do the exclusion rules in Subdivision D of Division 7A of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (ITAA 1936) necessarily impact on the deemed circumstances arising from Subdivision E of the ITAA 1936 and the consequent operation of Subdivision B of the ITAA 1936?
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, IPA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Determination TD 2011/D5&D6 - July 2011
TD 2011/D5 Income tax: will the gain or loss resulting from the expiration, sale, termination or exercise of a hedging financial arrangement to which a hedging financial arrangement election applies to be determined and allocated in accordance with subsections 230-300(2) and 230-300(3) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 where that expiration, sale, termination or exercise happens before an occurrence of an event listed in the table in section 230-305 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997?
TD 2011/D6 Income Tax: does the hedging effectiveness test under section 230-365 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 require both retrospective and prospective testing for the purposes of the hedging financial arrangements method?
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, IPA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Ruling TR 2011/D2 - July 2011
Income tax and fringe benefits tax: charities
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Determination TD 2011/D4 - May 2011
Tax administration: what is a general administrative practice for the purposes of protection from administrative penalties and interest charges?
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Determination TD 2011/D3 - May 2011
Income tax: capital gains tax: will the Commissioner accept that the shares in a ‘no goodwill' incorporated professional practice have a market value of nil when considering the application of subsection 116 30(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 to an admission or exit of a practitioner shareholder from the practice for no consideration?
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Determination TD 2011/D2 - April 2011
Income tax: can Part IVA of ITAA1936 apply to a scheme designed to convert otherwise assessable interest income into non-assessable non-exempt dividends?
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Ruling TR 2011/D1 - April 2011
Fringe benefits tax: meaning of ‘cost price' of a car, for the purposes of calculating the taxable value of car fringe benefits.
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Draft Taxation Determinations TD 2010/D10 - February 2011
Income tax: Division 7A - payments and loans through interposed entities - factors the Commissioner will take into account in determining the amount of any deemed payment or loan arising under section 109T of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Draft Taxation Determinations TD 2010/D9 - February 2011
Income tax: Division 7A - unpaid present entitlements - factors the Commissioner will take into account in determining the amount of any deemed entitlement arising under section 109XI of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by ICAA, TIA, CPA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Draft Taxation Determinations TD 2010/D8 - February 2011
Income tax: does the business profit article (Article 7) of Australia's tax treaties apply to Australian sourced business profits of a foreign limited liability partnership (LLP) where the partners in the LLP are resident of a country with which Australia has entered into a tax treaty and the LLP is treated as fiscally transparent in the country of residence of the partners?
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Draft Taxation Ruling TR 2010/D7 - February 2011
Business related capital expenditure - section 40-880 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 core issues
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Determination TD 2010/D4-D6 - December 2010
TD 2010/D4 - Income tax: consolidation: capital gains: does paragraph 40-880(5)(f) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 prevent the deduction, under section 40-880 of that Act, of incidental costs described in subsection 110-35(2) of that Act that the head company of a consolidated group or MEC group incurs, in acquiring shares in an entity that becomes a subsidiary member of the group, before the entity joins the group?
TD 2010/D5 - Income tax: consolidation: capital gains: does paragraph 40-880(5)(f) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 prevent deduction, under section 40-880 of that Act, of incidental costs described in subsection 110-35(2) of that Act that the head company of a consolidated group or MEC group incurs, in acquiring shares in an entity that becomes a subsidiary member of the group, after the entity joins the group?
TD 2010/D6 - Income tax: consolidation: capital gains: does paragraph 40-880(5)(f) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 prevent deduction, under section 40-880 of that Act, of incidental costs described in subsection 110-35(2) of that Act that the head company of a consolidated group or MEC group incurs, in disposing of shares in a subsidiary member to a non-group entity, after the member leaves the group?
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Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Determination TD 2010/D3 - November 2010
Income tax: where an equity interest is a financial arrangement which satisfies both subsections 230-45(1) and 230-50(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 which provision applies?
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by CPA, ICAA, NIA, TIA and Taxpayers Australia on Taxation Determination TD 2010/D2 - September 2010
Income tax: will the exemption in section 102NA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 continue to apply to a unit trust that has become the interposed trust of a stapled group pursuant to subdivision 124-Q of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 if the trustee of the unit trust later gains control (or the ability to control), either directly or indirectly, (the) operations of an entity that are in respect of a trading business within the meaning of section 102M of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936.
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Submission on draft PSLA issued 9 August 2010 titled 'When the ATO
will not take action to apply its views of the law in past years or periods.'
Download this submission to the ATO relating to the draft PSLA.
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by Taxpayers Australia, ICAA, CPA Australia, TIA, NIA and
the Law Council of Australia in respect of the Draft Practice Statement
PSLA 3362 (PSLA 3362) - July 2010

Download this submission to the ATO relating to Draft Practice Statement
PSLA 3362 (PSLA 3362) 
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			Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Submission on Income Tax Treatment of Instalment Warrants
Proposals Paper - April 2010

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Treatment of Instalment Warrants.
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 File Download: Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Joint submission by Taxpayers Australia, ICAA, TIA  NIA, CPA Australia
on Draft Taxation Ruling TR2009/D8 - February 2010

Download this submission to the ATO relating to Draft Taxation Ruling
TR2009/D8 Income Tax: Division 7A loans; trust entitlements. 
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 File Download: Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Submission on TFN withholding rules - February 2010
Download this submission to Treasury in response to the Exposure Draft
in relation to the proposed TFN withholding rules for closely held trusts.
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Joint submission by Taxpayers Australia, ICAA, TIA  NIA, CPA Australia
on Draft Goods and Services Tax Determination GSTD 2009/D2 - February 2010

Download this submission to the ATO relating to Goods and services tax: 
are there GST consequences where a land owner engages the services
of an associate to arrange construction of residential premises for lease
under an arrangement described in Taxpayer Alert TA 2009/5?
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 File Download: Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Submission on Draft Taxation Determinations TD 2009/D18 - February 2010
Download our submission to the ATO relating to TD 2009/D18 - Income tax: 
can a private equity entity make an income gain from the disposal of the
target assets it has acquired?
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 File Download: Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Submission on Draft Taxation Determinations TD 2009/D17 - February 2010
Download our submission to the ATO relating to TD 2009/D17 - Income tax: 
treaty shopping - can Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 apply
to arrangements designed to alter the intended effect of Australia's International
Tax Agreements network?
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 File Download: Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Submission on Non-Commercial Loans - January 2010
Download our submission to Treasury in respect of our comments on
Tax Laws Amendment (2010 Measures No. 1) Bill 2010 - Non-Commercial Loans
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 File Download: Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks 2010-11 Pre-Budget Submission
Download our Budget Submission 2010-11 to Treasury.
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Submission on proposed income test for the ETO - January 2010
Download our submission on the technical application and policy shortfalls of proposed
provisions in the Exposure Draft concerning the introduction of a means test on the ETO.
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Submission on Tax Laws Amendment (Transfer of provisions) Bill 2009 - December 2009
Download our a submission to Treasury in response to the Tax Laws Amendment
(Transfer of Provisions) Bill 2009.
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Submission on income splitting and Part IVA - October 2009
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 File Download: Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks 2009-10 Pre-Budget Submission
Download our submission to Treasury in response the Government’s call for input
into the 2009-10 Budget.
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 File Download: Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks Review of the tax arrangements applying to managed investment trusts - December 2008
Download our submission to The Board of Taxation in response to the public discussion
paper – Review of the tax arrangements applying to Managed Investment Trusts.
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‘Reforms to Income Tests’ consultation paper - November 2008
Download our letter of response to the 'Reforms to Income Tests' consultation paper.
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Increase access to small business CGT concessions via $2m aggregated turnover test
Download our submission in response to the Tax laws Amendment (2008 Measures No.7)
Bill 2008: CGT concessions for small business
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Trust consultation working group submission - October 2008
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Pre-budget submission - January 2008
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FBT - and Cost of Compliance issues - November 2007
Download our submission on the FBT - and cost of Compliance Issues below.
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Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks - August 2007
Download our submission on the Review of the tax treatment of off-market share buybacks below.
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File Download: Exposure Draft Tax Agent Services Bill Submission

Exposure Draft Tax Agent Services Bill Submission - July 2007
You can download our submission on the Exposure Draft Tax Agents Services Bill below.
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File Download: Bankruptcy Legislation

Bankruptcy Legislation - January 2007
Superannuation Australia's comments on the Bankruptcy Legislation Amendment
(Superannuation Contributions) Bill 2006

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File Download: Simplifying Super

Simplifying Super - January 2007
Superannuation Australia's comments on the Legislation for Simplifying Super
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File Download: Pre-Budget Submission 2007/08

Pre-Budget Submission 2007/08
Taxpayers Australia Pre-budget Submission 2007/08
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File Download: CGT Rule Amendments - August 2005

CGT Rule Amendments - August 2005
The 20th anniversary of the introduction of the Capital Gains Tax legislation is approaching and it is the considered opinion
of the National Board of Taxpayers Australia Inc that an exemption from CGT should be introduced, effective from 19 September 2005,
for assets held by an individual taxpayer for 20 years or more.
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File Download: Superannuation savings of the people under 40 - July 2005

Superannuation savings of the people under 40 - July 2005
This paper is Taxpayers Australia's submission to the inquiry into the superannuation savings of the under 40s falling behind
for adequate future retirement incomes.
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File Download: FBT Cost of Compliance submission - March 2005

FBT Cost of Compliance submission - March 2005

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File Download: Submission on small business CGT concessions - February 2005

Submission on small business CGT concessions - February 2005
The Association's comprehensive submission to the Board of Taxation on its post-implementation review of the
Small Business Capital Gains Tax Concessions.
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File Download: The review of the provision of pensions in small superannuation funds - August 2004

The review of the provision of pensions in small superannuation funds - August 2004

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File Download: Response to the Discussion Paper, March 2004

Response to the Discussion Paper, March 2004

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File Download: Regulation 7.1.29 - December 2003

Regulation 7.1.29 - December 2003

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File Download: Superannuation Legislation amendment Bill 2002 - January 2003

Superannuation Legislation amendment Bill 2002 - January 2003

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File Download: Taxation Laws Amendment - August 2002

Taxation Laws Amendment - August 2002

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File Download: Choice of Superannuation - July 2001

Choice of Superannuation - July 2001

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File Download: The New Business Tax System - June 2000

The New Business Tax System - June 2000

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File Download: Superannuation Legislation - November 1999

Superannuation Legislation - November 1999

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File Download: Property and Family Law - August 1999

Property and Family Law - August 1999

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