Major change in proposed 30 per cent minimum tax on trusts
InsightNew “EET election” option for discretionary trusts to avoid the minimum 30 per cent without having to restructure, but creates inflexibility.
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By: Brett Curtis, Yan Wong, Emma Maguire
21 May 2024 2 min read
In its place, the Government announced new measures to penalise, from 1 July 2026, SGEs that are found to have mischaracterised or undervalued royalty payments, to which royalty withholding tax would otherwise apply.
The discontinuation is a sensible step to avoid potential duplication of rules following the introduction of the ‘Pillar Two’ Global Minimum Tax and Domestic Minimum Tax measures, which should broadly apply to combat tax avoidance using cross border intangible payments to low taxed jurisdictions.
Our 2024-25 Federal Budget commentary can be found here.
Our Client Alert of 25 March 2024 in respect of the Pillar Two exposure draft materials can be found here.
Our Client Alert of 6 April 2023 on this discontinued measure can be found here.
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