Default Assessments

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Assessing Assessments of Tax

Bruce Collins, August 25 2022

We are all familiar with the process of taxpayers lodging tax returns and the Commissioner issuing an assessment which determines their tax liability. For income tax, this is done using the Commissioner’s general assessment power in s 166 of ITAA 1936 or via the deemed assessment power in s 166A for full self-assessment

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Asset Betterment Assessments

Bruce Collins, July 13 2021

The ATO and other revenue agencies have a broad power to calculate tax assessments on the basis of ‘other information’, rather than just relying on documents lodged by taxpayers. These are commonly called ‘default assessments’ and for the ATO often focus on ‘unexplained wealth’. Such ‘other information’ includes the results of ‘indirect audit metho...