HESTA Super has complained that the tax office has unfairly stripped it of $11 million in franking credits, denying it did not hold the credits ‘at risk’ for the required 45-day period.
In a major loss for the Australian Taxation Office, a High Court majority has found an agreement between US soft drink giant PepsiCo and Schweppes Australia to sell brands such as Pepsi and Mountain Dew in Australia was not subject to a royalty withholding tax.
Mayfield Development has been granted the High Court’s leave to make its argument that derivative Crown immunity does not apply to NSW Ports, in a seven-year-old competition case.
IGA can pursue its Victoria Supreme Court challenge to a decision allowing up to four supermarkets to operate in Shepparton, with an appeal bench finding the court can review planning decisions for jurisdictional error.
The High Court has upheld a decision that found Helensburgh Coal should have tried to redeploy 22 workers it dismissed as redundant and replaced with contractors.
The applicant in a long-running class action over the government’s live exports ban has lodged an appeal after a judge has found that no additional cattle would have been exported to Indonesia in 2012 and 2013 if the ban had not been in place.
A class action against aged care provider Bupa faced tough questions by a judge on Monday, who grilled counsel over the case’s theory of loss. And the answers — rather than reassuring her — raised the spectre of a summary judgment fight.
A tribunal has ordered the EPA in Victoria to indicate what conditions it would impose on Veolia’s development application for a waste transfer station, which the regulator has opposed.
A judge has signed off on a $9 million penalty against online flight bookings service Webjet for misleading air travelers about prices and bookings.
A judge has tossed an application for a contempt hearing against in-house lawyers, editors and journalists at Nine who allegedly breached suppression orders in a former ABC radio host’s unfair dismissal case.