NSW Payroll Tax – E Group Security case – ‘UNSW Global’ principles for establishing the scope of the ’employment agency contract’ definition upheld in NSW Court of Appeal

On 6 July 2022, the Court of Appeal of the New South Wales Supreme Court made an important decision in Chief Commissioner of State Revenue v E Group Security Pty Ltd [2022] NSWCA 115. The security industry commonly uses contractors to provide services to its clients. In the series of E Group Security cases, the courts considered whether payments to service providers met…

DIS on Decleah: ‘GST margin scheme’ valuations (of pre-GST land) nee only be determined by an ‘approved’ method (not be the ‘correct’ value)

The Commissioner has issued a draft Decision Impact Statement (‘DIS‘) on the GST margin scheme case of Decleah Investments Pty Ltd v CofT [2021] AATA 4821.  In that case, following the directions of the Federal Court, the AAT confirmed that the value assigned by a taxpayer for the purposes of the margin scheme was the result…