This article considers Information Technology (IT) adoption strategies as applied to the particular circumstances of e-filing UK Self Assessment (SA) Tax returns . It reports the findings from a study that involved three interested groups in the UK; tax advisers, tax authorities and software...

This article considers several issues that make the application of Part IVA uncertain and whether recent tax office guidance, in the form of PS LA 2005/24 and the Guide, provide any further clarity on these issues. It is suggested that PS LA 2005/24 and the Guide fail to provide further clarity...

More recently an increasing number of revenue authorities have attempted to estimate the amount of tax that is legally owing to their government but not collected. This amount is commonly referred to as ‘tax gap’. In the past tax gap studies were branded unreliable. Tax administrations and...

Over the last decade the Australian Taxation Office has adapted the model of ‘responsive regulation’ in developing its cooperative compliance model. This model seeks to promote voluntary compliance with Australia’s taxation laws by tailoring the administrative treatment of taxpayers in...

Professor Prebble’s paper considers the correct interpretation of double tax agreements in the context of locally resident accumulation trusts established in New Zealand or Australia, that have foreign settlors and foreign-source income. He explores the relevance and application of double tax...

This article criticises the current situation in judicial decision making which it says is overly dominated by ‘old fashioned’ conservative legalistic analysis. It compares this with the UK’s experience of the European challenge to its Common Law. The article urges Australian jurisprudence...

Philip Moss reviews the various “controls” over the exercise of his powers of administration by the Commissioner of Taxation in Australia. He considers the terms of the legislation under which the Commissioner operates, the reporting requirements and the compliance with audit guidelines that...