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Draft taxation ruling on withholding tax on payments to non-residents for works and related activities

|Proposed Changes|Australia
Australia

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) released, for comment, draft Taxation Ruling TR 2006/D3 explaining the position of the ATO on the operation of the withholding tax rules in respect to payments to non-residents for works and related activities.

By way of background, Secs. 12-315 and 12-317 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 require that a 5% tax be withheld fr…

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