In today’s environment, the tax landscape can sometimes feel like a high-stakes intelligence operation—complex, fast-changing, and often opaque. Tax practitioners are increasingly required to follow broad policy changes but also the faintest lines of inquiry down any number of rabbit holes, questioning assumptions, interrogating positions, and navigating layers of legislation, regulations and revenue authority pronouncements.
This year’s theme, “Trust No One? Navigating Trust Issues in Tax” recognises the current environment – a Federal Government set on enacting sweeping changes to, amongst other things, the taxation of trusts and capital gains, as well an environment of heightened ATO and state revenue office scrutiny of taxpayers’ affairs. It sets the tone for a program that challenges conventional thinking and sharpens professional judgement.