Tax Agent Services (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (114 of 2009)

Schedule 1   Amendments

Part 1   Consequential amendments

Taxation Administration Act 1953

24   After subsection 286-75(1) in Schedule 1

Insert:

(1A) However, you are not liable to an administrative penalty under subsection (1) if:

(a) you engage a *registered tax agent or BAS agent; and

(b) you give the registered tax agent or BAS agent all relevant taxation information to enable the agent to give a return, notice, statement or other document to the Commissioner in the *approved form by a particular day; and

(c) the registered tax agent or BAS agent does not give the return, notice, statement or other document to the Commissioner in the approved form by that day; and

(d) the failure to give the return, notice, statement or other document to the Commissioner did not result from:

(i) intentional disregard by the registered tax agent or BAS agent of a *taxation law; or

(ii) recklessness by the agent as to the operation of a taxation law.

(1B) If you wish to rely on subsection (1A), you bear an evidential burden in relation to paragraph (1A)(b).


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