GST minutes, March 2009

Meeting details

Venue:	Phillip and Kangaroo Rooms Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia Level 1, 33 Erskine Street Sydney NSW 2000
Date:	19 March 2009
Start:	10.00am	Finish:	3.30pm
Chair:	Paul Tregillis
Contact and Secretariat:	Owen Clancy	Contact phone:	(07) 3213 8271

Attendees

Paul Tregillis (chair)	Senior Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Tax Office
Mark Tomlinson	Senior Tax Counsel, Tax Office
Steve Howlin (part meeting)	Assistant Commissioner, Tax Office
Helen Kelly (part meeting)	Assistant Commissioner, Tax Office
Tony Long (part meeting)	Assistant Commissioner, Tax Office
Nathan Firth	Tax Office
Simon Jukes	Tax Office
Paul Kruspe	Tax Office (by phone)
Owen Clancy	Tax Office
Esther Van Schaick	Tax Office (minutes)
Rob Dalla-Costa	Treasury
Donna Bagnall	Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia
Bill Benham	Association of Taxation and Management Accountants
Ken Claughton	CPA Australia
Leigh Conlan	National Institute of Accountants
Michelle de Niese	Corporate Tax Association
Michael Evans	Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia
Gina Lazanas	Taxation Institute of Australia
Peter McDonald	National Institute of Accountants
Heather Schäche	Taxpayers Australia
Paul Stacey	Law Council of Australia
Rod Wilson	National Tax and Accountants Association
Karl Wood	Property Council Of Australia

Apologies

Mark Morris	CPA Australia
Michael Payne-Mulcahy	Taxation Institute of Australia

Professional bodies represented at the subgroup

Association of Taxation and Management Accountants	ATMA
Corporate Tax Association	CTA
CPA Australia	CPAA
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia	ICAA
Law Council of Australia	LCA
National Institute of Accountants	NIA
National Tax and Accountants Association	NTAA
Taxation Institute of Australia	TIA
Taxpayers Australia	TA
Property Council of Australia	PCA

Acronyms and references in these minutes

TAA	Taxation Administration Act 1953
GIC	General interest charge
DIS	Decision Impact Statement
NTLG	National Tax Liaison Group
NTLG GST	GST Sub-group of the NTLG.
References to provisions of an unidentified Act are to the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.