#SVVoidables by Matthew Hudson
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A reminder that from today GST, wine equalisation tax and the luxury car tax can be included in a directors personal liability to the Australian Taxation Office for company tax liabilities. This is done in the form of a Director’s Penalty Notice. Don’t forget that if you or your clients receive a DPN, you only…
DIRECTORS PENALTY NOTICE: to mix things up a little bit, I took the liberty of putting together an infographic on DPN’s. As I previously wrote, from 1 April 2020, directors may become personally liable for unpaid GST, luxury car tax or wine equalisation tax. This is in addition to unpaid superannuation and PAYG. My infographic…
Directors may start being held personally liable for ATO debts owed by their company from 1 April 2020. Any remnants of the corporate veil, are now well and truly gone. The move comes after the Government introduced new legislation designed to tackle illegal phoenix activities. I previously warned last year about this new legislation. When…
A Directors Penalty Notice (DPN) issued on a c$19m tax liability ‘guestimate’ by the #ATO has landed a related party director in hot water. Although the amount was later reduced to c$4m (once the ATO issued an amended Estimate Notice), the Court found ([2019] FCA 1086) that the timing to comply with the DPN was…
A recent case from the WA District Court on director penalty notices issued by the Australian Taxation Office, shows just how unnecessarily complex DPN laws have become. Unfortunately, in this case, it looks like the Registrar has got it wrong by ruling against the ATO. Imagine the following: – you take over as sole director for…
An extension of the Director’s Penalty Notice (“DPN”) regime to GST, luxury car tax (“LCT”) and wine equalisation tax (WET”) was announced in last night’s #Budget. All to supposedly combat #illegalphoenixactivity … Currently, directors can be held personally liable for unpaid superannuation and PAYG liabilities: (a) where they have lodged the relevant returns with the ATO (called a…
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