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Greenwoods & Freehills Pty Limited (G&F) is a specialist tax practice, Australia's biggest advisory firm practising exclusively in revenue laws and is International Tax Review's Australian Tax Firm of the Year, 2007. Now incorporating Shaddick & Spence.

Recent Developments

5 March 2010
A summary of selected tax developments for the week ending 5 March 2010.
5 March 2010
The Tax Laws Amendment (2010 Measures No 1) Bill 2010 was introduced into Parliament on 10 February 2010 and contains the proposed final form of the measures that permit eligible managed investment trusts to elect to apply the capital gains tax regime as the primary measure for taxing gains and losses on assets.
26 February 2010
A summary of selected tax developments for the week ending 26 February 2010.
19 February 2010
The legislation to replace the current regulation of tax agents was introduced into Parliament in 2008 and passed along with separate transitional legislation in 2009. The regime gets underway on 1 March 2010. As with other new or revised regulatory regimes, there are borderlines that have to be established and which are currently uncertain in application. There is the potential for many corporate group service companies, funds management entities, financial advisers and others to have to register as tax agents under the new regime.
19 February 2010
A summary of selected tax developments for the week ending 19 February 2010.
12 February 2010
A summary of selected tax developments for the week ending 12 February 2010.
5 February 2010
A summary of selected tax developments for the week ending 5 February 2010.
29 January 2010
A summary of selected tax developments for the week ending 29 January 2010.
22 January 2010
A summary of selected tax developments for the week ending 22 January 2010.
15 January 2010
On 5 January 2010 Treasury took a further step in the long-running process to reform the anti-tax-deferral regimes that relate to foreign source income by issuing a consultation paper directed at the high-level design of the new controlled foreign company (CFC) rules. The proposals in the consultation paper are further developed than in the past and so provide further insight into the likely shape of important aspects of the new rules.