Dealing with the ATO: Getting Certainty & Managing Risk

Learn about how you can get certainty from the ATO, including using rulings, past decisions, fighting default assessments and more.

In this session, we cover:

• Relying on rulings

• Certainty

  • Legal certainty

  • Practical certainty

• How does precedent actually work?

• Court vs Tribunal

• Default assessment and onus of proof

• Penalties

• Voluntary disclosures

• Governance: ‘how’ tax affairs are managed

• ATO’s core principles

• ATO compliance programs – findings

• ATO terminology around Governance

Date recorded: 15 January 2025