Day 1

Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Session 1: Official welcome

Session 2: Justice Hill Lecture

Session 3.1: Division 7A and UPEs – what’s next?

Session 3.2: The latest – residency for Corporates

Session 3.3: Indirect taxes and supply chain traps

Session 3.4: When is professional practice income alienable?

Session 3.5: Foreign income tax offsets – domestic laws reign supreme

Session 4.1: SMSFs – where are we now?

Session 4.2: APAs – practical management in cross-border transactions

Session 4.3: The taxation of forex gains and losses

Session 4.4: What is the current framework for structuring professional practices?

Session 4.5: Building trust with clients

Session 5.1: SME business structures – multiple owners, flexible profit sharing

Session 5.2: Winning ways to keep your losses

Session 5.3: Crossing the minefield – transfer duty and land tax surcharges

Session 5.4: How should professional practices be structured in the future?

Session 5.5: Overview of the imputation regime

Session 6: Q&A Panel – what does tax reform look like with 2020 vision?

Day 2

Thursday, 12 March 2020

Session 7: Senior Tax Counsel insights

Session 8: Commissioner’s address

Session 9.1: Trust distributable income – the remaining gaps

Session 9.2: Tax governance and transparency initiatives

Session 9.3: Who would want to be a company director? Duties, obligations and liabilities in a tax context

Session 9.4: Taxing the digital economy – the end of the (tax) world as we know it?

Session 9.5: How does the change agenda impact the tax profession?

Session 10.1: Superannuation member balance strategies upon death

Session 10.2: M&A and capital management

Session 10.3: Legal professional privilege and accountant’s concession

Session 10.4: International tax structuring and cross-border financing

Session 10.5: Technology in the tax practice, what lies ahead?

Session 11: Beyond the Tax Acts

Session 12.1: New ATO guidance on back to back rollovers

Session 12.2: Capital versus revenue revisited

Session 12.3: Around the courts in 60 minutes – key tax decisions

Session 12.4: OECD anti-hybrid mismatch rules

Session 12.5: Tax issues with IP and technology

Session 13.1: Top Hatting for SMEs

Session 13.2: Tax consolidations – practical considerations

Session 13.3: Potential claims against your estate – doing something about it while you can

Session 13.4: Controlled foreign companies

Session 13.5: Emerging technologies and trends – what tax advisers need to know

Session 14.1: Pre-nups – are they worth the effort?

Session 14.2: Justified Trust

Session 14.3: Cross-border GST

Session 14.4: Practical tax issues for non-resident investors

Session 14.5: Disruptive innovation panel

Day 3

Friday, 13 March 2020

Session 15: VIP Presentation

Session 16.1: Tax implications of relationship breakdown

Session 16.2: Economic update

Session 16.3: What tax opportunities exist for startups that are innovative?

Workshop 1: Transfer pricing 101

Workshop 2: Managing an ATO audit

Session 17.1: Tax treatment of buy sell agreements

Session 17.2: Insights from Australia's in-house tax leaders

Session 17.3: Vacant land tax measures

Session 18.1: SME consolidations – how to acquire assets

Session 18.2: US tax update

Session 18.3: Best practice for holiday rental properties and retention of evidence

Workshop 3: R&D tax incentive

Workshop 4: How is your business impacted by the trade war?

Session 19.1: So you like your trusts… quirky…

Session 19.2: Demergers – where are we now?

Session 19.3: When worlds collide – the accountant, the lawyer, the client and the ATO

Session 20: The digital invasion – an insider’s guide to the coming revolution

At a glance Sessions

Day 1

Wednesday, 11 March 2020

Session 1: Official welcome

Session 2: Justice Hill Lecture

Session 3.1: Division 7A and UPEs – what’s next?

Session 3.2: The latest – residency for Corporates

Session 3.3: Indirect taxes and supply chain traps

Session 3.4: When is professional practice income alienable?

Session 3.5: Foreign income tax offsets – domestic laws reign supreme

Session 4.1: SMSFs – where are we now?

Session 4.2: APAs – practical management in cross-border transactions

Session 4.3: The taxation of forex gains and losses

Session 4.4: What is the current framework for structuring professional practices?

Session 4.5: Building trust with clients

Session 5.1: SME business structures – multiple owners, flexible profit sharing

Session 5.2: Winning ways to keep your losses

Session 5.3: Crossing the minefield – transfer duty and land tax surcharges

Session 5.4: How should professional practices be structured in the future?

Session 5.5: Overview of the imputation regime

Session 6: Q&A Panel – what does tax reform look like with 2020 vision?

Day 2

Thursday, 12 March 2020

Session 7: Senior Tax Counsel insights

Session 8: Commissioner’s address

Session 9.1: Trust distributable income – the remaining gaps

Session 9.2: Tax governance and transparency initiatives

Session 9.3: Who would want to be a company director? Duties, obligations and liabilities in a tax context

Session 9.4: Taxing the digital economy – the end of the (tax) world as we know it?

Session 9.5: How does the change agenda impact the tax profession?