Draft Land Tax (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2019
On 10 September 2019 the South Australian Government released the draft Land Tax (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2019 for public consultation. A copy of the draft Bill can be found here:…
Land Tax Reform for Trusts
In light of the considerable interest shown in our recent article on this subject, we look further into some of the implications of the Treasurer’s budget announcement. An apparent target of the…
Aggregation of Land Held on Trust for Land Tax Purposes
On 18 June 2019, as part of the SA Budget, the Treasurer, Rob Lucas MLC, announced that the South Australian Government would introduce a new ‘aggregation model’ for land tax purposes effective from…
Offloading Tax Liabilities Between Spouses
High Court decision of the Commissioner of Taxation v Tomaras
Succession Planning
Protecting your business, your estate and you
ATO Raids
Roasting the Phoenix The Phoenix according to Greek and Roman mythology is a bird that lives for centuries and then is consumed by fire and rises again. It was a benign mythology symbolising concepts…
Trust Splitting
Tax lawyers have a propensity for applying slickly phrased euphemisms for sets of procedures known commonly among them. In this category are “Trust Splitting” and the previously popular “Trust…
Passing Control of a Discretionary Trust to the Next Generation
Discretionary trusts have long been the go-to vehicle for advisors when setting up a structure for their clients. The principal reasons for this are clear – discretionary trusts give a high level of…
Branding for WET
The need for trade marks When the Wine Equalisation Tax (WET) Act[1] was amended with effect from 1 July 2018 to introduce additional eligibility criteria to claim the WET producer rebate, amongst…
Tax Changes for Developers of New Residential Property
One of the more significant tax measures to be brought before Federal Parliament on its resumption in February is proposing to give effect to the Government's 2017-18 Budget measure requiring…
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