Media releases

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan, has announced that gifts to the value of $2 or more made to Crime Stoppers South Australia Incorporated will be deduct

By disallowing the Government’s regulations to allow portability from superannuation funds the Opposition is holding fund members hostage to funds chosen for them by someone else, Minister f

The Government will amend the company tax loss recoupment rules to ensure they interact appropriately with recent reforms to the regulation of the medical indemnity industry, Mi

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Senator Ian Campbell, today announced a review of the

Senator Nick Sherry's claim in his press release `$250 million funding hole in Liberals' Super Package' continues Labor's flawed understanding of the Government's superann

The Government has successfully negotiated an agreement with the Australian Democrats to secure the passage of two key tranches of its superannuation package, Minister for

The Australian Government today formalised its commitment to trans-Tasman triangular tax reform.

With around 20 bills currently stalled in the Senate and double dissolution triggers piling up in the third Howard Government, it's not surprising Senate reform is firmly back on the political agen

HIH policyholders have another six months to lodge an application with the HIH Claims Support Scheme, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan announced today.

Gifts of $2.00 or more made to the Country Education Foundation of Australia Limited will now be tax deductible, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Hele

Changes to the Refundable Tax Offset will encourage more large-scale film productions to shoot in Australia, creating jobs and opportunities in the creative industries, Mi

A long-term care scheme for the catastrophically injured is still definitely on the national agenda despite AMA claims to the contrary, Minister for Revenue and Assistant

Today's sixth Ministerial meeting on Insurance Issues endorsed a national scheme for professional standards legislation for economic loss.

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator the Hon Helen Coonan and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Senator the Hon Ian Campbell today announced the release of the Australi

The appointment of Sydney tax consultant, Mr David Vos AM, as the inaugural Inspector-General of Taxation for a five year term has been welcomed by the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer,

The Federal Government will announce tomorrow the appointment of the inaugural Inspector-General of Taxation.

The final details of the Government’s IBNR Indemnity Scheme were announced today by the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator the Hon Helen Coonan.

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator the Hon Helen Coonan, today announced that regulations to give effect to the Government’s portability of superannuation policy h

Estimates of the size of the black economy exaggerate the extent of tax avoidance in Australia, the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan, sai

“Calls on the Federal Government to introduce national laws following the recent High Court decision awarding damages for an unsuccessful sterilisation miss the point,” the