Three Class Rulings were released by the ATO on Wed 26.7.2017: CR 2017/44 – scrip-for-scrip roll-over: acquisition of units in Centuria Urban REIT by Centuria Metropolitan REIT. It provides that unit holders who made a capital gain from disposing of their Centuria Urban REIT units to the responsible entity of Centuria Metropolitan REIT can choose scrip-for-scrip…
On Wed 26.7.17, Revenue Minister Kelly O’Dwyer announced that the Government has established a transition team to bring the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) into being. AFCA is designed to provide a one-stop-shop for external dispute resolution, as recommended both by the Ramsay Review and the report of the Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman. AFCA…
The ABS has released the CPI indexation factor for the June quarter 2017 showing a 0.2 increase from the March 2017 quarter to 110.7. This CPI indexation factor is used for FBT purposes concerning remote area benefits (under ss 60 and 60AA of the FBTAA). The Australian Bureau of Statistics said inflation was running at 1.9% through the year…
On 14 June 2017, the High Court has dismissed a taxpayer’s application for special leave to appeal against the decision of the NSW Court of Appeal in Anglo American Investments Pty Ltd v DCT [2017] NSWCA 17. The NSW Court of Appeal decision, which now stands, had unanimously dismissed the taxpayer’s application for leave to…
In GH1 Pty Ltd, in Liquidation and Commissioner of Taxation the AAT found that the Applicant was not entitled to input tax credits in respect of creditable acquisitions purportedly made in the course of the development of land in Western Australia. The Tribunal agreed with the Commissioner that the Applicant did not establish that the applicant received taxable…
The Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent BEPS (MLI) Matching Database makes projections on how the MLI modifies a specific tax treaty covered by the MLI by matching information from Signatories’ MLI Positions. This tool is a preliminary (beta) version that will be improved over time. The OECD welcomes comments and…
The Inspector-General of Taxation (IGT), Ali Noroozi, released his first edition (July 2017 edition) of his new newsletter – “IGoT News!“. This was on or about 13 July 2017. The newsletter aims to more regularly inform the community of the IGT’s activities and what it is hearing from the community, particularly from the complaint handling…
The OECD has released the 2017 edition of the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations. The Guidelines provide guidance on the application of the “arm’s length principle”. The 2017 edition of the Transfer Pricing Guidelines mainly reflects a consolidation of the changes resulting from the BEPS Project. It incorporates the following…
On 12.7.17, the Commissioner issued GSTD 2017/1, in which he rules that the supply of a credit card facility is GST-free under para (a) of item 4 in s 38-190(1) of the GST Act to the extent the issuer anticipates that the cardholder (and any additional cardholders) will use the facility to undertake transactions while physically…
The OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs has just released the draft contents of the 2017 update to the OECD Model Tax Convention prepared by the Committee’s Working Party 1. The update has not yet been approved by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs or by the OECD Council. Comments are requested at this time only with…