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On 14 September 2023 the Treasury Laws Amendment (Modernising Business Communications and Other Measures) Act 2023 (Cth) (Act) received Royal Assent, meaning that most of the provisions have now commenced. The Act, amongst other things, aims to moder

Over the past year or so, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) appears to have moved on from educating the market about the emerging trend of entities misrepresenting the extent to which a practice, financial product (such as s

On 31 May 2023, the ATO issued its updated resolutions checklist for trustee resolutions which is welcome. Practical guidance and can be accessed via their website. Special Counsel Saxon Rose and Partner Michael Patane from HopgoodGanim’s taxation

NSW Revenue announced on 21 February that individuals from New Zealand, Finland, Germany and South Africa will no longer be liable to pay surcharge purchaser duty and surcharge land tax in relation to NSW residential property, due to inconsistences w

The awkward three-way struggle between Perpetual (the Bidder for Pendal, but now also the Target of a proposal from the Regal Partners Consortium), Pendal Group (the Target of Perpetual) and the Regal Partners Consortium (the Bidder for Perpetual) ap

Over recent years the spotlight has been on organisational culture and the impact of that culture on the performance of the organisation. Both the Banking Royal Commission and the Aged Care Royal Commission focused on culture and in particular the im

An external governance documentation review can provide a board with several advantages, including maintaining quality assurance for changes in policies, staying up to date with regulatory requirements and ensuring good practice governance is being r

In this article, we discuss the recent Federal Court proceedings involving the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) against BPS Financial Pty Ltd (BPS).

As discussed in our previous alert, Ms Bosanac, the wife of Mr Bosanac at the time of the purchase of property in Dalkeith, WA as their matrimonial home, was given leave to appeal to the High Court a finding of the Full Federal Court that both she a

A General Interest Charge (GIC) is a punitive charge imposed by the ATO in situations where primary tax owed is not paid by the due date or where there is an underpayment of tax following a review or audit amendment to an assessment.  Most commonl

The High Court of Australia (HCA) sat to hear Bosanac v Commissioner of Taxation & Anor, an appeal from the decision of the Full Federal Court (FFC) in Commissioner of Taxation v Bosanac [2021] FCAFC 158. In the matter being heard, a husband an

As far as corporate law is concerned, a good old-fashioned takeover battle is about as close to blood sport as you can get. Granted, most of the blows are delivered on A4 paper and no one (generally speaking) goes home on a stretcher, but there is so