2013

2013 Financial Services Tax Conference

Source: QLD

Published Date: 13 Feb 2013

 
  • In this "post-GFC"? world, "increased regulation and governance standards will change our working environments for many years to come'. Significantly, the scope, timing and potential impact of the still-evolving global and national regulatory reform are the key challenges cited by the vast majority of financial services organisations and are driving the re-shaping of the financial services industry in Australia.These challenges are further complicated by market, macro-economic and political volatility, and a constrained debate about taxation reform and an existing platform under siege.
  • This conference aimed to provide delegates with a colourful mix of plenary and breakout sessions that were focused on the critical taxation topics for the financial services industry.
  • Papers presented included:
  • Topical tax treaty issues for the financial sector
  • Attributing profits to permanent establishments (banking)
  • Policy responses to the investment manager regime (funds management)
  • Transfer pricing aspects of banking operations
  • Transfer pricing (funds management)
  • Emerging regional issues (funds management)
  • Is Australia becoming a sovereign tax risk?
  • The shifting Part IVA landscape
  • Australian Tax Office audits, risk identification, dispute
  • GST and RITCs on trustee services
  • Losses
  • Capital managment of financial institutions and the related tax issues
  • Transfer pricing law changes and the international dealing schedule
  • The Rubik's Cube of tax - An update on trusts
  • R&D tax concessions
  • Promoter penalties / products
  • Asset financing /thin capitalisation/ infrastructure update
  • MRRT and carbon tax: Issues for financiers and funds

Capital management of financial institutions and the related tax issues

Author(s): Tony Frost , Tricia Ho-Hudson

MRRT and Carbon Tax: Issues for financiers and funds

Author(s): Teresa Dyson

Asset financing/thin capitalisation/infrastructure update

Author(s): Steve Ford CTA , Arash Azimi

Topical tax treaty issues for the financial sector

Author(s): Richard J Vann CTA

New R&D regime in financial services

Author(s): Jamie Mundy

The promoter penalty regime - How the ATO ia applying it in practice

Author(s): Bruce Collins CTA , Nathan Firth , Kirsten Fish CTA

Emerging regional issues (funds management)

Author(s): Brian Chambers CTA , Daryl Choo ATI

Transfer pricing and funds management

Author(s): Damian Preshaw CTA

GST and RITCs on trustee services

Author(s): Bill Packwood , Amelia O’Rourke

TOFA - A new world of economic substance?

Author(s): Phillip Cole

Income tax case update

Author(s): Cameron Rider FTI

The attribution of income, losses and outgoings to foreign permanent establishments of Australian banks

Author(s): Ian Fullerton CTA

The Rubik's Cube of tax - An update on trusts

Author(s): Andrew Mills CTA-Life , Matt Hartshorn CTA

Losses

Author(s): Julian Humphrey CTA
Materials from this session:

The shifting Part IVA landscape

Author(s): Larry Magid , James Pettigrew ATI

Australian Taxation Office audits, risk identification, dispute

Author(s): Ashley King CTA , Andrew Mcloughlin CTA

Details

  • Published On:13 Feb 2013
  • Took place at:Hyatt Regency Sanctuary Cove, Gold Coast

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