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• Tax Laws Amendment (Personal Income Tax Reduction) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Income Tax Rates Act 1986

  to increase the threshold for the 30 per cent marginal tax rate (from 1 July 2008) and phase-in a decrease to the 40 per cent marginal tax rate commencing 1 July 2009;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

  to increase the maximum amount of low income tax offset; and

  Medicare Levy Act 1986

  to increase the income threshold that applies to taxpayers who are eligible for the senior Australians tax offset. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Poisons Standard) Bill 2008

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  Date

  14 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  to address legal consequences arising from the Federal Court decision in

  Roche Products v National Drugs and Poisons Schedule Committee

  [2007] FCA 1352 (30 August 2007) by: providing that the Poisons Standard and its amendments are legislative instruments for the purposes of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  ; retrospectively reinstating certain amendments made to the Standard before the Roche decision; exempting the Standard from section 42 of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  relating to disallowance; and providing for ‘just terms’ compensation in the event that these measures could result in any acquisition of property. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Practices Amendment (Access Declarations) Bill 2008

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  Date

  13 Feb 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to provide that telecommunications access declarations and extension notices which extend the period of access declarations are not legislative instruments for the purposes of the

  Legislative Instruments Act 2003

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (2007 Measures No. 4) Bill 2007

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  Date

  21 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills, the bill amends the taxation laws in relation to: foreign income tax offset rules; capital gains tax roll-over for medical defence organisations; superannuation funds investment in instalment warrants; updating the list of deductible gift recipients; increasing family trust flexibility; trustee beneficiary reporting rules; the transition to the simplified superannuation regime; and makes technical and other amendments in relation to: income tax deductibility for gifts to certain scholarship funds; the formula for the fringe benefit tax depreciation rate for a car; tax file number withholding from payments to certain exempt entities; and capital gains tax exemption for certain organisations. Also repeals the

  A New Tax System (Ultimate Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) Act (No. 1) 1999

  and

  A New Tax System (Ultimate Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) Act (No. 2) 1999

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Taxation (Trustee Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) Bill (No. 1) 2007

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  Date

  21 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to amend the taxation laws, the bill imposes a trustee beneficiary non-disclosure tax at the rate of 46.5 per cent on the untaxed part of a share of the trust’s net income if the trustee fails to make a correct trustee beneficiary statement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Taxation (Trustee Beneficiary Non-disclosure Tax) Bill (No. 2) 2007

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  Date

  21 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills to amend the taxation laws, the bill imposes a trustee beneficiary non-disclosure tax at the rate of 46.5 per cent on a share or part of a share of the trust’s net income if the trustee of a closely held trust becomes presently entitled to income attributable to the share (or part of it). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Protecting Services for Rural and Regional Australia into the Future) Bill 2007

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  Date

  21 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Information Technology and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  to ensure the principal amount in the Communications Fund is maintained as a perpetual fund, with only earnings on investment being used to fund future telecommunication improvements in regional, rural and remote Australia. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Therapeutic Goods Amendment Bill 2007

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  Date

  20 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Health and Ageing 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Therapeutic Goods Act 1989

  ,

  Therapeutic Goods Amendment Act (No. 1) 2006

  and

  Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Medical Devices) Act 2002

  to extend transitional registration arrangements for certain patient treatment devices beyond 4 October 2007 to enable reassessment by the Therapeutic Goods Administration prior to entry in Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods as ‘included’ devices. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Trade Practices Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2007

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  Date

  20 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Trade Practices Act 1974

  to: create a second Deputy Chairperson position at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; clarify the operation of the misuse of market power and unconscionable conduct provisions; and makes consequential amendments to the

  Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001

  , in relation to the application of the unconscionable conduct rules to the supply and acquisition of financial products and services. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2007

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  Date

  14 Jun 2007 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Following government endorsement of the recommendations of the Review of the Regulation of Access to Communications (the Blunn Report), the bill amends the

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  in relation to: access to telecommunications data for national security and law enforcement purposes; and makes consequential amendments to five other Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum