Income Tax Case Law Update – March 2025
Overview
Update on major income tax cases over the last 6 – 12 months
There have been some significant income tax decisions over the last six to twelve months about which practitioners and their clients should be aware.
This session is intended to give tax practitioners, accountants and lawyers an improved understanding of the impacts of some of the recent key income tax decisions, covering cases on:
- ATO tax administration and collection affecting income tax
- Tax residency
- Assessable income
- Allowable deductions
- Capital gains tax
- Taxation of trusts
- Taxation of companies
- Anti-Avoidance Rules
- Refundable Offsets
- ATO audit assessments and the practical issues in challenging them
Learning Outcomes:
Participants will gain an improved understanding of these key cases:
- Why the cases are important
- What the impacts of the key cases are for which types of client
- Risks that these key cases either create or exemplify
- Key messages to share with clients about these cases
Suited to:
Accountants, tax practitioners, BAS agents, lawyers and other practitioners serving small businesses, private groups and wealthy individuals.
This On Demand recording Includes:
- Recording of the Live Webinar, which can be viewed multiple times, for as long as required
- Presenters contact details for follow up questions
- CPD Quiz
- CPD Certificate
- CPD Report – Logged automatically
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Verbatim Transcript, with Searchability
- Supporting Documentation
Course syllabus
3 lessons
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- Knowledge QuizTest
Your presenter
Bruce CollinsTax Controversy Partners
is the founder and principal solicitor at Tax Controversy Partners Pty Limited, currently helping clients to resolve all types of tax issues with the ATO and SROs. Before moving into private practice in 2017, Bruce worked for over 35 years in the Tax Office, a third of this time as a Senior Executive in what is now Client Engagement Group, covering most ATO functions. Bruce was the leader of the Technical & Case Leadership area in Private Wealth for several years prior to leaving the ATO, as well as having previously been the strategic and technical leader for many of the ATO’s law clarification programs and a member of the ATO Test Case Litigation Panel in several roles. In those roles, Bruce was heavily involved in leading a number of ATO tax litigation programs, mostly targeting income tax risks and issues.
Bruce has an Accounting Certificate (1989), a First-Class Honours Degree in Law (1995), a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (1996), a Masters of Taxation (2003) and a Masters of International Taxation (2006). Bruce is a Chartered Tax Advisor with the Tax Institute, a member of the Law Society of NSW and is both a member of the Law Council of Australia and current Chair of their SME Committee.