Non-resident tax issues - the 2018 SA Private Business Day

The operating environment for
private companies is increasingly competitive and complex, and for those
looking to expand their operations overseas, particularly fraught.
One of many important
considerations is how the Australian taxation system will apply to income
generated via an off-shore investment vehicle, such as a non-resident trust
entity. What’s more, complying with the rules around transfer pricing can be
onerous, despite efforts by the ATO to simplify record keeping.
At July’s SA Private Business Day in Adelaide, Talia Begley, ATI, looks at some of the issues in her session
‘Non-resident tax’. She tells us about some of the challenges facing businesses
and their advisers in this post. 
“Expanding a business beyond
Australian shores is complex. Transfer trust rules and transfer pricing are
both highly technical aspects of the taxation law matrix – either subject could
easily fill an entire day!   As such, I
will really be aiming to boil them down to some key practical takeaways. I will
be looking at two of the complex taxation issues that face SMEs looking to
expand their operations offshore – in particular expansion via a foreign
resident trust and the impact of the transferor trust provisions, and
application of the simplified transfer pricing record keeping options by SMEs.”
The first part of Talia’s session
will provide an overview of when the transferor trust provisions will apply,
looking at carve outs and exemptions and the calculation of attributable
income, as well as the interaction with other taxing provisions.
“In regard to the transfer trust
rules, I will cover the core considerations of trust residency, the
attributable taxpayer, listed and non-listed countries and attributable
income.   But in the end, we will ask, ‘in
what circumstances would you recommend your client expand via a non-resident
trust estate’?”
This session will then touch on
other important traps and tax strategies for SMEs expanding overseas, before
looking at transfer pricing and the simplified transfer pricing record keeping
options.

“Complying with transfer pricing
rules in the current climate is a daunting and onerous task for any
multinational, but particularly so for SMEs who may be only considering
expanding operations overseas. Any ‘simplification’ on the tax sides of things
is useful, but taxpayers who can fit within one of the ATO’s eight transfer
pricing safe harbours still need to keep their eye on the fact this does not
relieve them of the substantive transfer pricing obligations – that is, their
international dealings must still reflect arms’ length terms.”
Talia Begley, ATI
“I’ll be looking at what’s
involved with the eight simplified safe harbour options and the very specific
criteria that go with them, and what it means for taxpayers who are eligible.”
Talia is a commercial practitioner
at JL Lawyers with a taxation law focus. Prior to joining JL Lawyers, she was a
Senior Associate in the Corporate Advisory and Tax Team at Gadens Lawyers,
Melbourne. With over 12 years’ experience advising commercial, property and not
for profit clients in connection with corporate governance, structures and
restructures and acquisitions and divestments, Talia’s corporate practice is
supported by her expertise in advising on taxation matters in connection with
stamp duty, land tax, GST, income tax and small business tax issues in
particular. 
“Now that I’m back in my home
town of Adelaide, I love working closely with our private SME clients and their
accountants at all stages of their business development – from start-up
structuring to succession planning and sale/exit strategies. And when I’m not
doing that, I’m spending time with my two young daughters. Otherwise I am
usually at the (ballet) barre or absorbed in a podcast!”
Other sessions at the 2018 SA Private Business Day, look at the issues faced by a growing business,
maximising the use of global tax rates, issues with inter-generational wealth
transfer and transitions, re-organising a privately held business into a
company, and more.
View the full program on our website, and join us Adelaide Convention Centre on Friday, 27 July.

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