GST minutes, March 2010

Meeting details

Venue:	Australian Taxation Office 6th Floor Large Conference Room 6 Gladstone Street Moonee Ponds
Date:	17 March 2010
Start:	10.00am	Finish:		3.30pm
Chair:	Paul Tregillis
Secretariat:	Donald Lobo
Contact:	Donald Lobo	Contact phone:		(03) 9275 4182

Attendees

Paul Tregillis	Senior Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Mark Tomlinson	Senior Tax Counsel, ATO
Steve Howlin	Commissioner, ATO
Helen Kelly	GST Centre of Expertise, ATO
Adrian Preston-Loh	Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Lesley Slevin (by phone)	Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Paul Kruspe (by phone)	Acting Assistant Commissioner, ATO
Andy Ditchfield	ATO
Rod Dunn	ATO
Nick Athans	ATO
Cathie Gee (by phone)	ATO
Kasey MacFarlane (by phone)	GST Centre of Expertise, ATO
Simon Jukes (by phone)	GST Centre of Expertise, ATO
Rod Profke (by phone)	GST Centre of Expertise, ATO
John Gill (by phone)	GST Centre of Expertise, ATO
Steve Iselin (by phone)	GST Centre of Expertise, ATO
Romeo Casauria	ATO (secretariat)
Dora Adamopoulos	ATO (minutes)
Rob Dalla-Costa	Treasury
Donna Bagnall	Institute Of Chartered Accountants Australia
Bill Benham	Association of Taxation & 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
Tony Greco	National Institute of Accountants
Suzanne Kneen	Taxation Institute of Australia
Gina Lazanas	Taxation Institute of Australia
Peter McDonald	National Institute of Accountants
Roger Timms	Taxpayer Australia
Rod Wilson	National Tax & Accountants Association

Apologies

Donald Lobo	ATO
Craig Milner	Law Council of Australia
Andrew Minho	Property Council of Australia
Mark Morris	CPA Australia
Paul Stacey	Law Council of Australia
Karl Wood	Property Council Of Australia

Professional bodies represented at the subcommittee

Member representative comments are attributed to the organisation which they represent.

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	National Tax Liaison Group Goods and Services Tax Subcommittee

References to provisions of an unidentified Act are to the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999.