CANCELLED: Dealing with Tax Authorities
Accountants spend a lot of time dealing with tax authorities: ATO audits, tax disputes, concerns over director penalties, and debt collection. As your clients’ representative, it’s crucial to stay informed and advise your clients early on matters that might result in tax disputes and relieve their burdens by acting and managing communication on their behalf. After this informative half day program, you will gain the keys to success when dealing with tax authorities.
Description
Chair: Paul McCartin, Partner, PwC
2.00pm to 3.00pm: ATO Audits: Practical Tips and Traps
Explore how best to deal with the ATO during the audit stage, including:
- Approach: proactive or reactive? Big picture or narrow focus?
- Responding to requests for information (RFIs) and notices under compulsory access powers
- Facts vs assumptions, and early evidence preparation
- Consideration of non-tax issues, e.g. contract law, equity, trusts, company law
- Responding to position papers
Presented by Amber Agustin, Partner, Clayton Utz and Angela Lee, Barrister, Aickin Chambers
3.05pm to 4.05pm: Handling Director Penalties for Your SME Clients
The DPN regime makes company directors (and perhaps others) personally liable for a range of unpaid company tax liabilities. While there may be Phoenix business operators out there, this personal liability doesn’t require some sort of fraudulent intent and can be automatically triggered by the legislation. This means that the owners of SME company businesses which suffer cash flow problems as victims of external forces can have their personal assets exposed to the Commissioner.
- The background to the DPN provisions
- DPN exposure for PAYG withholding, superannuation guarantee and GST
- Defenses that may be available
- Dealing with the ATO
- DPN’s and asset protection
Presented by Damian O’Connor, Principal, Tax + Law
CASE STUDY
4.10pm to 5.10pm Tax Disputes Management: A Comprehensive Guideline
- Amended assessments, default assessments and objections
- Litigation (Federal Court vs AAT) and test case funding
- Briefing counsel
- Preparation of evidence (expert and lay witnesses)
- Settlements and alternative dispute resolution
Debt Collection Negotiation and Remission of Interest
- The Commissioner's debt recovery powers
- Payment arrangements
- Winding up proceedings, creditors' petitions, garnishees and other means of recovery
- Garnishees
- Penalties, interest and remission
Presented by Carlos Barros, Special Counsel, MacPherson Kelly
Venue
RACV City Club
Level 2, 501 Bourke St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
Australia
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Parking is not included in your registration. Here are some options below. RACV City Club Car Park.
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Accreditation
Attend and earn 3 CPD units
FASEA CPD Allocation: 3 hours in Technical Competence
All our conferences are able to count towards your CPD hours in accordance with the regulations of any industry association including CA ANZ, CPA and more. Click here to view your organisations' rules.