Tax Laws Amendment (Countering Tax Avoidance and Multinational Profit Shifting) Bill 2013 [Provisions]

Tax Laws Amendment (Countering Tax Avoidance and Multinational Profit Shifting) Bill 2013 [Provisions]

14 May 2013

© Commonwealth of Australia 2013
ISBN 978-1-74229-823-8

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Membership of Committee (PDF 16KB)
 
Abbreviations (PDF 11KB)
 
Chapter 1 - Introduction and overview of the Bill (PDF 124KB)

Conduct of the inquiry
Schedule 1: The general anti-avoidance rule
Schedule 2: Modernisation of the transfer pricing rules

 
Chapter 2 - Views on schedule 1: The general anti-avoidance rule (PDF 73KB)

Have recent court decisions exposed weaknesses in Part IVA?
Disregarding the potential tax consequences of an alternative postulate
The Commissioner's capacity to use an annihilation approach
The sequencing of determining when Part IVA applies
Committee view

 
Chapter 3 - Views on schedule 2: Modernisation of the transfer pricing rules (PDF 107KB)

The reconstruction approach
Transfer pricing adjustments: underlying components
Time limits for the Commissioner to amend assessments
Record keeping and establishing a 'reasonably arguable position'
The de minimis threshold
Subdivision 815-C: Attribution of amounts to permanent establishments

 
Coalition Senators' Dissenting Report (PDF 35KB)

Schedule 2
Concluding Remarks

 
APPENDIX 1 - Submissions received (PDF 21KB)
 
APPENDIX 2 - Public Hearings and Witnesses
(PDF 12KB)
 
Correction to Dissenting Report received from Treasury on 21 May 2013 (PDF 110KB)

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