FSI minutes, November 2008

Meeting details

Venue:	Australian Taxation Office Latitude East Sydney
Date:	25 November 2008
Start:	10.15am	Finish:	1.30pm
Chair:	Anne Van Loon
Facilitator and contact:	Geoff Tarran	Contact phone:	(03) 9275 2735

Attendees

Ms Jenny Wong	KPMG
Mr Jane Michie	Taxation Institute of Australia
Mr Peter Collins	PricewaterhouseCoopers (via phone)
Ms Lisa Clifton	Treasury
Ms Ann Previtera	Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia
Mr John Balazs	Law Council of Australia
Mr Frank Drenth	Corporate Tax Association
Ms Isabelle MacInnes	CPA Australia
Mr Dudley Heywood	Investment and Financial Services Association
Mr Zorach Diskin	Ernst & Young
Ms Anne Van Loon	Tax Office
Mr Kevin O'Shaughnessy	Tax Office
Mr Ross Wadelton	Tax Office
Mr Geoff Tarran	Tax Office
Mr Graeme Clarke	Tax Office (via phone)
Mr. Kevin Wallace	Tax Office (via phone)
Mr Tony Carroll	Tax Office (via phone)
Mr Greg Vitulano	Tax Office (via phone)

Apologies

Mr James Loughhead

Australian Bankers Association

External representatives

Australian Bankers Association	ABA
CPA Australia	CPA Australia
Corporate Tax Association	CTA
Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia	ICAA
Investment & Financial Services Australia	IFSA
Law Council of Australia	LCA
PricewaterhouseCoopers	PWC
Taxation Institute of Australia	TIA

* The Department of Treasury attends the National Tax Liaison Group (NTLG) Foreign Source Income (FSI) Subcommittee meetings as an observer.

Abbreviations

Income Tax Assessment Act 1936	ITAA 1936
Income Tax Assessment Act 1997	ITAA 1997
International Tax Agreements Act 1953	Agreements Act
ATO Interpretative Decision	ATO ID