About the event

Both sessions will also be streamed as webinars.

Comprehensive amendments to the Duties Act came into operation in June 2019.  Some changes are subtle, but some are not. In this two part seminar, experienced practitioners and officers from State Revenue will provide guidance on applying the new Act to a wide variety of circumstances encountered regularly by most practitioners and taxpayers.

Key topics include:

• preventing duty leakage through the landholder and connected entity regimes
• introducing a fixed to land model
• family farm exemption
• nominal duty transactions
• the effect of a one word change to section 107
• how wide is the reach of the amended section 67?

Part 1 – Friday, 9 August | 9:00am-12:00pm | Morning Tea will be provided

• Landholder duty – John Maher, EY Law
  • grouping; the new s163; other issues
• Fixed to land – Michelle Owens, OSR
  •  fixed and fixtures; infrastructure; new inclusions
• Connected entities – Stuart Leonard, Swan Legal
  • packaging; other issues

Part 2 – Wednesday, 14 August | 9:00am-11:00am 

• Family Farm Exemption – Brian Lovitt, Hewitt & Lovitt
  • progressive succession; transfer after retirement
• Nominal duty transactions – Cindy Zhang, OSR
  • bare trusts; subdivisions; Guardianship and Administration Act; Incorporated associations
• Minor amendments – Grahame Young, Francis Burt Chambers
  • s67, Tax Administration Act; other

Level: General

See attached flyer for further details on how to register.