Source: Australian Tax Forum Journal Article
Published Date: 1 Sep 2018
Australian tax legislation has provided a system of private rulings that are binding on the Commissioner of Taxation since 1992. This system has been modified and expanded over the ensuing years. The purpose of introducing the system of binding rulings was to promote certainty as part of a broader movement in taxation administration towards self-assessment. This article considers whether that goal has been achieved, or ever was achievable as a practical matter, in a variety of administrative and procedural scenarios. The conclusion is reached that a private ruling will have utility for a taxpayer only where a scheme is particularised with sufficient clarity such that it prevents the Commissioner from ruling on a different scheme and is the same scheme that the taxpayer, in fact, implements.
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