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Rachel O’Donnell, CTA of O'Donnell Tax Law, specialises in GST, and duties, land tax and payroll tax across all Australian states and territories. Rachel has significant experience advising large listed and unlisted corporates, high net worth individuals and small to medium enterprises. With more than 15 years of experience advising on tax law, she has a broad range and depth of experiences and is very familiar with the operation and technicalities of the GST and various state and territory tax regimes, which are constantly evolving. Rachel’s clients have included major international and national companies / trusts / groups in the property development, property funds management, infrastructure, superannuation, and retirement living / aged care industries, as well as high net wealth family groups.

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Session 15.3: Why salads are now being taxed and Teslas are not - an update on recent developments on GST and FBT

Speaker: Rachel O'Donnell, CTA, O’Donnell Tax Law

GST impacts almost all transactions that businesses are involved in and getting it wrong can have catastrophic consequences. Together with an update on FBT, this session looks at the developments in GST you need to be aware of, including:

GST in property contracts and sub-divisions
GST and globalisations; and
The ATO's attention to the GST treatment of food classification; and
How FBT applies to electric vehicles.