Media releases

Assistant Treasurer and Labor Senator for Tasmania, Senator Nick Sherry and the Hon Duncan Kerr MP, Federal Member for Denison and Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, have praised

The Assistant Treasurer, Nick Sherry and Minister for the Status of Women, Tanya Plibersek, today announced that a $1 coin celebrating the Centenary of Girl Guides will be released into full circ

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, has today announced Australia and Gibraltar have signed a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA), now bringing to seven the number of TIEAs signe

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, said today that an Australian Taxation Office (ATO) submission to a Parliamentary inquiry highlights the growing dangers of cyber crime to the financ

Today the Government announces the removal of interest withholding tax (IWT) on Commonwealth Government Securities.

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, has today announced that Typhoon Morakot, which hit Taiwan on Friday, 7 August 2009, has been recognised as a disaster for the purpose of allowing A

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, today announced that the Rudd Government will introduce amendments to the income tax law to formalise the existing tax practice of exempting certai

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, today highlighted that the Liberal Party majority report of the Senate Economics Reference Committee Review into Employee Share Schemes poses an imm

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator the Nick Sherry, and the Hon Bill Shorten MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction, today announced that the Rudd Government will amend F

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, has today released the Government's draft legislation to reform the taxation of employee share schemes for a two-track public consultation proces

Ahead of today's commencement of the Spring sittings of Parliament, the Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, has released the Rudd Government's forward work program of tax law reforms for the

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, has today released the Inspector-General of Taxation's report of his Review into the Underlying Causes and the Management of Objections to Tax O

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry has today announced a world-first agreement between the Australian and New Zealand Governments to continue cutting business

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, visiting New Zealand as part of an Australian Ministerial delegation, has marked one year of operation of the Australia-Ne

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, is warning Australians of a suspected door-to-door scam by people claiming to be consultants from the Tax Office.

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, has today released the Inspector-General of Taxation's (IGT) report on the Review of the Tax Office's administration of public binding advice

Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, has today welcomed the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO) $13 billion haul of outstanding taxes and liabilities from individuals and companies trying to

The Assistant Treasurer and Senator for Tasmania, Senator Nick Sherry, has today called on Tasmanian Liberal Senator, Eric Abetz, to do the honourable thing and apologise to the people of Tasmani

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, has today released a consultation paper on proposed reforms to the tax treatment of special disability trusts to ease the financial burden on people

The Assistant Treasurer, Senator Nick Sherry, has today released for public comment a final version of the Regulations for the new national tax agents system.