Author: Сергей Панов

Australian Tax Organization (ATO) made available a new voluntary tax transparency code (TTC) a range of principal and minimal standards for middle and big companies. The Tax Code was developed by the Board of Taxes and Duties, and must be entered ATO. Adoption of this Code is voluntary and is intended to complement existing measures of tax transparency in Australia. Within the scope of the tax code, companies are encouraged to be more transparent, especially in terms of their international tax affairs, in order to improve the public's understanding of how they comply with the tax laws of Australia. The minimum level of information required in accordance with the tax code depends on the size of the business. A "medium business" is a business with Australian Code aggregate turnover of at least 100 million Australian dollars, but less than 500 million Australian dollars. A "big business" has aggregated TTC Australian turnover of 500 million Australian dollars, or more. Companies can choose to meet the minimum standards of the Tax Code by publishing an improved disclosure of tax information in their general purpose financial statements, taxes paid reports or other...

The Australian Tax Organization (ATO) warns taxpayers about false deductions bounded with job and remind employee about using a new checking regime in real time deductions and about tax declarations electronically. Australian confirm that more than AUD21bn (USD16.2bn) it’s a disbursements connected with work in every year. Assistant Commissioner Graham Whyte said that ATO see mistakes when the same time sum if individual disbursements not so huge but in general amount it has bigger meaning. Whyte also explained that ATO would use efforts against tax agents who make returns more essential and advice to taxpayers that they need to be sure that their agents are registered. ATO in this year go into force checks of deductions in real time for tax returns in filed electronically. Whyte said: "If your claims essentially higher than any other in the same occupation with the same income in that case will be some notification and it need to pay attention on this and check it out." This new process only need to help you to check your own returns. Whyte recommended to taxpayers inquire according to three rules: "First, be sure that you didn't spent this money and it...

Australian Tax Organization announced a range of alerts for taxpayers that bi companies will be caution in use tax avoidance system. The firs alert as to agreement, where Australian consolidation group all the time use offshore constitutions, which are in inner operation. Deputy Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn said: "With help of this mechanism their true income can be low and in that fact the take-outs will be incorrect. "Taxpayers must provide returned taxable income properly, because it reflects the economic substance and significance of the operations carried out under the principle of arm's length. ATO in the present time investigate the cases when this mechanism and also structure in the answer for multinationals against Tax Avoidance Law which had made to increase tax for goods and services. ATO in a similar way to warn against deliberate calculation of debt capital for the purposes of the thin capitalization rules. Conza said: "In some cases, taxpayers are not able to include the cost of debt interest, which has been treated as equity for accounting purposes of debt capital As a result, adjusted average debt of the taxpayer understated,...

Malcolm Turnbull, Australian Prime Minister, said that the ministers should «start work» on a new trade agreements with the United Kingdom. Turnbull told reporters that he talked with the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, to congratulate her with the new appointment. He also confirmed that they were discussing a free trade agreementand and said that he looked forward to negotiations between the Australian and British trade ministers, which wiil be held in the near future. Turnbull said that Australia's trade agreement with the Great Britain «will certainly also with the European Community». He added that in the case of the UK’s out of the European Union, Australia will need to «negotiate by direct agreements with the UK». «We need to resolve this issue quickly. Of course, England will not leave the EU for several years, this procedure will take some time, that is, anyway, we will have to wait, but we already need to work on a new trade agreement between the United Kingdom and Australia and in fact the British will have to take over this work with many other countries, including the rest of the European community», Turnbull said. ...

Australian tax organization (ATO) said that they are worrying about people who earns money with sharing economy can't understand that they need to announce this income to them tax declarative. Assistant Commissioner Graham Whyte said: "sharing economy changed a lot of things we do but the definition of ATO didn't change. In sharing economy buyers and sailors are connected with facilitator who usually work through application or web site." "If you earns money from casual earning or providing services such as using common tasks, transporting passengers through things like ride-sourcing, or renting a room or house, you need to count this like declare income." "It's different a little if good you introduce or your activity you acting through sharing economy site or another stage acting like hobby or recreation activity. The amount you paid can not be countable income. You can check this on ATO site for taking some information about how to solve this problem." Due to Whyte words most of the people who take part in sharing economy will have right to demand deductions if they are declaring income. According to them activities, some taxpayers must register and pay out...