Tax Law



Many readers would be familiar with the concept of legal professional privilege (LPP) from the Tom Cruise-hit film The Firm, a dramatisation of the John… Read More ›

‘She’ll Be Right’: In the Land of the Fair Go, Is Privilege a Tall Poppy That Needs to Be Cut Down?

Professor John Prebble has plausibly argued that income tax law is dislocated from the facts to which it relates and therefore leads to different treatment… Read More ›

Visual Artistic Practice and Income Tax Concessions

The Tax Agents Services Act 2009 (TASA), administered by the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB), has governed the operation of tax agents for more than a… Read More ›

Updating the Tax Agents Services Act 2009

As we begin to embrace the new normal following the last two years of government-mandated stay-at-home directives, office closures and increasing digital and flexible modes… Read More ›

Is There an Unusual Entitlement to Home Occupancy Expenses During the COVID-19 Era?

In the 2021-22 Federal Budget, the Government announced that the current individual tax residency rules will be replaced with new tests, based on the recommendations… Read More ›

An Evaluation of the Proposed Changes to the Individual Tax Residency Rules – Impact on Australian Expatriates

The United States’ use of economic tools to pursue national security and foreign policy goals is at a high-water mark, reflecting a trend that has… Read More ›

Taxes and Foreign Policy

Although the devil will be in the detail, the final report of the ‘Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre’ committee (tabled on the 20th… Read More ›

The Bragg Report’s Agenda for Reforming Capital Gains Tax for the Crypto Economy

The theory of fiscal constitutionalism – essentially the idea, promoted by the Nobel Prize-winning economist James M Buchanan, that the state’s powers of taxing and… Read More ›

Fiscal Constitutionalism in Hong Kong

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