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• Opinion The low down on DPNs

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Sep 2009

  Directors are personally liable for unpaid company taxes. Derek Hilliard outlines how they can come unstuck by being served a Director Penalty Notice by the Taxation Office. The low down on DPNs Directors are often unaware that they are personally liable for unpaid company taxes ...

• Your Say Aug 08

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Aug 2008

  Letters to the editor I had to write in and commend the AICD on the Company Director journal. I still get a great deal out of it and yes, I have lent it out to one friend and he’s since become a member. The journal didn’t seal the deal for him, but it did open the door and upon ...

• Your Say May 08

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 May 2008

  Letters to the Editor I refer to the article by Professor Bob Baxt ‘Forgiving Director for Insolvent Trading’, (Company Director, February 2008). A cross-appeal has now been filed by the liquidators in Hall v Poolman asserting that it was inappropriate for Justice Palmer to apply any level of exone...

• Inside AICD Policy Update Mar 08

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Mar 2008

  A pre-Budget push for better tax policy. Late last year the Treasurer, Wayne Swan, invited business and community groups to submit their ideas for the 2008/09 Federal Budget. The submission by the Business Coalition for Tax Reform (BCTR) is of particular interest to AICD members. AICD i...

• Taxation

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Aug 2007

  The Australian Tax Office will formally announce its 2007/08 corporate compliance program for large business in August. But Commissioner of Taxation Michael D’Ascenzo gave a taste of what’s to come at a recent AICD breakfast in Sydney. Here are some pointers. The taxman commeth ...

• Federal Budget 2007

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Jun 2007

  Most business leaders agreed that the 2007 Federal Budget was economically responsible. However, as Kevin Forde found, there was some disappointment that the government did not announce any significant reforms to company taxes. Business off: The 2007 budget agenda Given that this is an electi...

• News and Views

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 May 2007

  Time to abolish inefficient state taxes The Business Coalition for Tax Reform (BCTR) is calling on the states to put abolition of stamp duty on commercial property back on their agendas. Stamp duty on commercial property conveyances is an increasing proportion of state and territory revenues despite...

• News and Views

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2007

  News & ViewsLong tail liabilities In late 2006, the Corporate and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC) invited submissions on the issue of the treatment of future unascertained person injury claims. The AICD’s view is that regulation of corporations which are required to account for future mass cl...

• news

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Feb 2006

    Company tax burden too high Australia’s corporate tax regime is quickly becoming uncompetitive and may act as a brake on economic growth if it is not brought into line with its competitors, says the Business Council of Australia (BCA). The BCA’s report, Corporate Taxation – An International C...

• taxing time was had by all

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2005

  Taxing time was had by all The Tax Act, at a monstrous 10,000 pages and growing, is a major threat to Australia’s international competitiveness as John Arbouw reports The first taxes ever raised in the budding colony of New South Wales were to pay for a jail in Sydney and help care for orphans. This...

• the tax reform man cometh

  Content Type: CDM Article

  01 Nov 2005

  The tax reform man cometh Tax reform is back on the political agenda thanks to Malcolm Turnbull. While he says that all he wants is a considerate debate his very visible public persona makes him the issue as much as the context of what he proposes. John Arbouw interviews the Member for Wentworth Mal...