The ATO has won its challenge to a finding that it waived privilege over draft expert reports in an email referring to its contents, with a court saying disclosure of the substance of information is not per se inconsistent with maintaining privilege.
The Tax Office has asked the High Court to reverse a landmark ruling that found an unpaid present entitlement to a corporate beneficiary is not a loan under tax law, a decision that affects $50 billion in trust distributions.
A judge has hit AustralianSuper with a $27 million penalty for breaching superannuation rules requiring providers to consolidate customer accounts.
An appeals court has found that an unpaid present entitlement to a corporate beneficiary is not a loan under tax law, upending the ATO’s longstanding practice of treating UPEs as part of a trustee’s assessable income.
An appeal by a family-owned Adelaide deli in a trade mark fight with an Italian food hall in Melbourne has fallen flat.
Clive Palmer’s nephew has applied to the High Court for review of a decision rejecting his bid to dodge contempt proceedings, arguing he did not submit to the court’s jurisdiction.
The nephew of Clive Palmer and former director of Queensland Nickel has failed to reverse a decision rejecting his bid to dismiss contempt proceedings related to the company’s collapse.
In a loss for the Australian Taxation Office, an appeals court has found that the Liberty Group’s use of corporate and trust ‘silos’ was not an unlawful tax avoidance scheme.
The maker of Finish dishwashing products, RB Hygiene, has won a partial appeal in a trade mark stoush with rival Henkel, with the Full Court reviving two of its trade marks but rejecting its challenge to a logo for competing Somat-branded products.
A self-represented aged pensioner has lost his bid to revive a class action against the Department of Social Services over its real estate asset testing for pensions, with a judge saying that a legal practitioner must represent group members.