Category Archives: Tax Month – June 2022

ATO’s web guidance about its ‘information gathering’ – updated on release of its finalised ‘Protocol’ for claiming Legal Professional Privilege

The ATO updated its web guidance on their approach to gathering information at the same time as releasing its finalised ‘Protocol’ for taxpayers claiming Legal Professional Privilege (LPP) – see related TT Article. This covers informal/cooperative information gathering; mandatory information gathering and gathering information off-shore. The details are set out below.   Our approach to…

ATO finalises its ‘Protocol’ for claiming ‘legal professional privilege’ (LPP)

In late June 2022, the ATO finalised its ‘Protocol’ for taxpayers, and those acting for them, to claim ‘legal professional privilege’ (LPP) over the various kinds of communications it attaches to – which I’m covering in this article. This is an important topic, as such communications cannot be the subject of the Commissioner’s mandatory rights…

Compendium of ATO’s consultation in finalising its ‘Protocol’ for claiming Legal Professional Privilege

In late June 2022, the ATO finalised its ‘voluntary’ Protocol for claiming legal professional privilege (LPP) – see related TT article. It had conducted ‘consultation’ on the draft Protocol it issued back in September 2021. At the same time as releasing its final Protocol, it released a ‘compendium’ of the points raised in various submissions…

LIV’s ‘counterbalancing offence’ submission mentioned in ATO’s Consultation Compendium (Item 34) – released with it’s finalised LPP Protocol

In late June 2022, the ATO finalised its ‘Protocol’ for taxpayers claiming ‘legal professional privilege’ (LPP) – see related TT article. The issue of the draft Protocol, its finalisation, and the surrounding issues, created quite a bit of ‘heat’ (see related TT article). The ATO consulted on the issue of the draft Protocol, and released a ‘compendium‘…

LPP Protocol finalised by ATO – a ‘retrospective’

On 22 June 2022 (or thereabouts) the Commissioner of Taxation finalised and released his ‘Protocol’ on taxpayers, and others on behalf of taxpayers, claiming Legal Professional Privilege (LPP). This protocol, and the issues around it, have generated a lot of ‘heat’ over the last year or so. I thought it might be helpful to gather…

ATO’s Draft LPP Protocol – ‘withdrawn’ but not gone (‘pdf’ preserved for later reference)

In late June 2022, the Commissioner finalised and released the ATO’s ‘Protocol’ on claiming Legal Professional Privilege. I chronicled the heat this process has created (see related TT article). The starting point was issuing the Commissioner issuing his draft protocol in September of 2021. Though I have written much about this draft, it is now…

Tax changes in the 2022-23 financial year – what starts, stops, is stranded and the new Government might do itself

In the Tax Institute’s weekly TaxVine email (No 23, 1.7.22) its Tax Policy and Advocacy team surveyed what will change in this new financial year (from 1 July 2022) what’s new, what ends, what’s stranded and what the new Government might do themselves. This year, we face the additional challenge of pending tax policies from…

Tax Month – June 2022

T a x  T e c h n i c a l  –  M o n t h l y  N e w s – June 2022 Edition – ‘Tax Developments’ for tax practitioners by a tax practitioner.   Compiled by F John Morgan A member of the Victorian Bar (www.FJMtax.com) Table of Contents ______________________________________________________________________________  …