Fringe benefits tax: what is the benchmark interest rate to be used for the fringe benefits tax year commencing on 1 April 2011?

Income tax: will the exemption in section 102NA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 continue to apply to a unit trust that has become the interposed trust of a stapled group pursuant to Subdivision 124-Q of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 if the trustee of the unit trust later gains control (or the ability to control), either directly or indirectly, of operations of an entity that are in respect of a trading business within the meaning of section 102M of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 ?

Compendium

Income tax: consolidation: capital gains: does paragraph 40-880(5)(f) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 prevent the deduction, under section 40-880 of that Act, of incidental costs described in subsection 110-35(2) of that Act that the head company of a consolidated group or MEC group incurs, in acquiring shares in an entity that becomes a subsidiary member of the group, before the entity joins the group?

Compendium

Income tax: consolidation: capital gains: does paragraph 40-880(5)(f) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 prevent the deduction, under section 40-880 of that Act, of incidental costs described in subsection 110-35(2) of that Act that the head company of a consolidated group or MEC group incurs, in acquiring shares in an entity that becomes a subsidiary member of the group, after the entity joins the group?

Income tax: does it follow merely from the fact that an investment has been made by a trustee that any gain or loss from the investment will be on capital account?

Income tax: When considering the application of subsection 159GZZZQ(2) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 to an exiting vendor practitioner-shareholder by a 'no goodwill' incorporated professional practice, will the Commissioner consider that the buy-back price is less than the market value of the shares merely because the price is calculated not to reflect the underlying goodwill of the company?

Notice of Withdrawal - Income tax: when considering the application of subsection 159GZZZQ(2) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 to an exiting vendor practitioner-shareholder by a 'no goodwill' incorporated professional practice, will the Commissioner consider that the buy-back price is less than the market value of the shares merely because the price is calculated not to reflect the underlying goodwill of the company?

Income tax: when is the shortfall interest charge incurred for the purposes of paragraph 25-5(1)(c) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997?

Income tax: what types of temporary absences from foreign service form part of a continuous period of foreign service under section 23AG of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936?

Income tax: can Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 apply to a scheme designed to convert otherwise assessable interest income into non-assessable non-exempt dividends?

Income tax: capital gains tax: will the Commissioner accept that the shares in a 'no goodwill' incorporated professional practice have a market value of nil when considering the application of subsection 116-30(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 to an admission or exit of a practitioner-shareholder from the practice for no consideration?

Tax administration: what is a general administrative practice for the purposes of protection from administrative penalties and interest charges?

Income tax: will the gain or loss resulting from the expiration, sale, termination or exercise of a hedging financial arrangement to which a hedging financial arrangement election applies be determined and allocated in accordance with subsections 230-300(2) and 230-300(3) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 where that expiration, sale, termination or exercise happens before an occurrence of an event listed in the table in section 230-305 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997?

Income tax: does the hedge effectiveness test under section 230-365 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 require both retrospective and prospective testing for the purposes of the hedging financial arrangements method?

Income tax: Division 7A: do the exclusion rules in Subdivision D of Division 7A of Part III of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 (ITAA 1936) necessarily impact on the deemed circumstances arising from Subdivision E of the ITAA 1936 and the consequent operation of Subdivision B of the ITAA 1936?

Income tax: does a taxpayer's purpose of 'paying their home loan off sooner' mean that Part IVA of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 cannot apply to an 'investment loan interest payment arrangement' of the type described in this Taxation Determination?

Income tax: Employee share schemes: If a share in a 'no goodwill' professional practice company is acquired by a practitioner-shareholder (or a new practitioner-shareholder), will the Commissioner accept, for the purposes of determining whether that acquisition was at a discount within the meaning of subsection 83A-20(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, that the goodwill of the company can be taken to have no value?

Notice of Withdrawal - Income tax: employee share schemes: if a share in a 'no goodwill' professional practice company is acquired by a practitioner-shareholder (or a new practitioner-shareholder), will the Commissioner accept, for the purposes of determining whether that acquisition was at a discount within the meaning of subsection 83A-20(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, that the goodwill of the company can be taken to have no value?