Tax

The Full Federal Court has dismissed Linfox’s $45 million fuel tax credit appeal, finding the Australian logistics company’s argument was ‘too weak or uncertain’ to conclude that it was being over-taxed on major toll roads across the country.

Commodity trading and mining company Glencore has won a fight with the Australian Taxation Office over a $92 million tax bill related to copper purchased from a subsidiary operating the Cobar mine in NSW.

A Sydney law firm has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation and restitution for breach of its fiduciary duties, after a former client successfully appealed a conflict of interest case.

Former Plutus Payroll general manager Joshua Kitson has been sentenced to at least three years in jail for his role in a conspiracy to defraud $105 million from the Australian Taxation Office.

A former senior manager of Plutus Payroll played a "high level" role in a complex scheme that defrauded the Australian Taxation Office to the tune of $105 million, a court has heard, in a case involving one of the biggest revenue losses ever prosecuted.

Coal company Glencore has taken further legal steps to block the Australian Taxation Office from accessing documents related to its offshore affairs, after its bid to shield documents exposed in the Panama Papers leak failed before the High Court.

Coal producer Glencore International has lost its High Court appeal to keep the Australian Taxation Office from reviewing documents related to its offshore assets, which were unearthed as part of the global Paradise Papers investigation. 

Australian logistics company Linfox has taken its $45 million fuel tax credit challenge to the Full Federal Court, arguing its trucks are being over-taxed on major toll roads across the country.

The Full Federal Court is set to hear appeals in four class actions in the August sitting, giving the court a chance to address important issues, including cost-capping in joint class actions and security for costs in unfunded cases. Here, we give you the run-down on each of the upcoming challenges.

Australian coal miner Moreton Resources has won a Full Federal Court appeal over tax offsets it claims are owed over a failed pilot project testing underground coal gasification, a process which was ultimately banned in Queensland.