Two Queensland solicitors have scored partial wins in their decades-long disputes with the tax office because of the Administrative Appeals Tribunalās āwholesale failureā to give proper reasons.
A Supreme Court judge, a university head, a competition law specialist and a defamation expert are among eight new appointments to the Federal Court announced Friday.
An arrangement to restructure Queensland labour hire services company Comlek has survived a challenge by the state’s revenue office, which wanted the business wound up, claiming the restructure was against public interest and commercial morality.
The ATO has secured freezing orders on $220 million in capital gains tax arising from the $19 billion private equity sale by China’s State Grid of its substantial shareholding in energy infrastructure giant AusNet.