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For example, is the current public ruling system as effective as it could be? In these circumstances, the taxpayer should be given a reasonable opportunity to review the assumptions and be required to confirm that the assumptions are correct. However, submissions also recognised the balance that needs to be struck between providing advice that is clear and succinct, and ensuring that advice is accurate. In , , of the 3. In particular they would like to know if the ATO is seeking to apply its views generally and retrospectively.

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The remaining individual taxpayers used e-tax.

Short tax return instructions. In other cases, the ATO may be limited to providing advice on law as enacted.

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The ATO also produces other forms of binding advice and non-binding public guidance, such as private rulings and fact sheets, which have not been captured.

The IGT notes that this position remains today. A complete table of available data is contained in the report at pp — If that advice is written like some legal opinions, in complex language with caveats or qualifying statements, what is stated to be public advice, may not in fact be accessible by the general public. The Tax Office produces a number of non-ruling products in which the public, especially those preparing their own returns, should be entitled to have a high level of confidence, such as TaxPack.

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In any event and regardless of the form of tax return preparation, taxpayer certainty should be preserved through robust protections. State your assumptions clearly in the notice of private ruling, as they help define the scheme being ruled upon. 209 with the tax return for individuals. We believe that within the context of the self-assessment system the current advice and guidance framework strikes the right balance between appropriate levels of guidance for all taxpayers and appropriately graduated levels of protection.

However, any such changes should operate prospectively. Therefore, any ATO errors would likely be minimal.

If legitimate concerns still remain unaddressed, more investigatory process may be more appropriately dealt with outside of the private ruling process. As a result, taxpayers are compelled to accurately anticipate ATO views:. That is, errors made by the Commissioner in binding material exact a high price on the community, which must forgo the relevant revenue. However, where law is proposed there may be little existing ATO awareness of the specific taxpayer factual arrangements to which the law may apply.

Such consultation should consider:. There is room for improvement. This is because such applications may expose taxpayers to excessive costs as a result of the ATO increasing its scrutiny of these issues.

In this way, some of the impacts of uncertainty would be mitigated. The pilots of this work indicate an approximately halving of the timeframes for rulings.

However, the issue of requiring evidence of facts presented in a private ruling application can amount to an inquisitorial type of engagement, more akin to an audit, bringing with it additional delays and compliance costs. This may be for a number of reasons, including 22009 a response to increasingly complex business and personal affairs.

Additionally, they argued that if:. Since e-tax was launched in lodgment of paper individual tax returns has declined steadily and now represents only 6.

Identifying the more significant issues of uncertainty or contention and providing taxapck views on them continues to be a significant challenge.

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The Government and ATO agreed with all recommendations, and legislation and administrative changes were made. After enactment of the new laws, the advice should be monitored and where necessary updated with those changes having prospective effect.

Aspects of the ATO advice framework reviewed previously and recommendations made 2.

The Tzxpack recommendations allow some errors to stand and the community bear that cost. The draft TR was to go back to the panel with panel comments due 30 January Review into improving the self assessment system. They assist the taxpayer to understand how the ATO considers the law applies.