"I mean, I think I'm already bored," Mr Mike Baird said.
Mr Jeremy Hirschhorn said the Tax Office looked closely at group restructures and when tax benefits of a deal outweighed the corporate benefits of a deal, the ATO sought to apply Part IVA tax avoidance provisions.
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Mr Stoner, who quit politics at the March 28 election for family reasons, has taken a role as "senior adviser" to investment bank Moelis Australia, with whom he had dealings while in office in relation to a visa program aimed at wealthy Chinese investors. Andrew Stoner is no longer bored
Mr Jeremy Hirschhorn said the Tax Office looked closely at group restructures and when tax benefits of a deal outweighed the corporate benefits of a deal, the ATO sought to apply Part IVA tax avoidance provisions.
"In the public domain, we have pursued those sorts of arguments against News Corp on previous restructures and indeed have on occasion been unsuccessful in applying part IVA on the basis that there was a dominant commercial purpose rather than a dominant tax purposes.
"Part IVA has recently changed and that stops taxpayers arguing that they would not have done the transaction at all."
That was a common defence claimed by corporates, he said.
"They said: 'We would not have done the transaction at all if there had been a tax cost.' Part IVA has recently changed and no doubt in the near future there will be cases in which the Tax Office seeks to argue the new part IVA against things like corporate restructures."
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