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Learn the key principles for deducting legal costs including various scenarios where purpose and timing shape deductibility.

In this session, we cover:

Introduction
- General deductible principles
Legal expenses of an employee – contracts
- Romanin v Commissioner of Taxation [2008] FCA 1532
Legal expenses of an employee – defending claims
- Commissioner v Shane Day [2008] HCA 53
Legal expenses of an individual carrying on a business
- Spriggs v FCT and Riddell v FCT
Defamation and reputational risks
- XPTC v FCT [2022] AATA 4147
- FCT v Wood 2023 [2023] FCA 574
Settlement of legal actions
- Duncan and Commissioner of Taxation [2020] AATA 2540
Other considerations

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Date recorded: 1 October 2025

30:T4f5,

Learn the key principles for deducting legal costs including various scenarios where purpose and timing shape deductibility.

In this session, we cover:

Introduction
- General deductible principles
Legal expenses of an

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