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Update: NRAS Regulations Amended, Legal Information Seminar on Provision of Housing by Charities and OAGDS Review

Mark Fowler (4 June 2015) NRAS Amendment: Rental Reviews The National Rental Affordability Scheme Regulations 2008 (Cth) have been amended to remove the following requirements concerning rental reviews: 1. The requirement that rental reviews occur upon entering a new lease; or for an existing lease—no more often than at 12 monthly intervals from the date […]

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NFP Update: Seminar: Provision of housing by charities: the ACNC Commissioner’s Interpretation Statement and other news

Mark Fowler (20 May 2015 – Updated 1 June 2015) In this update: Seminar Invitation: Provision of housing by charities: the ACNC Commissioner’s Interpretation Statement (24 June 2015); State Library of Queensland NDIS Exhibition Event; and 1 July 2015 Deadline Reminder for Trustees of Public Ancillary Funds. Seminar Invitation You are invited to a Neumann

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NFP Update: Budget 2015

Mark Fowler & Rachel Sloper (13 May 2015) What’s in the Budget for charities and not-for-profits? Significant new power for Commissioner of Taxation The item which immediately caught our attention is in Budget Paper No 2, Revenue Measures, for the Treasury portfolio. The Government is proposing to give the Commissioner of Taxation a ‘remedial power’

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Update: Report of the Commonwealth Senate Committee Inquiry into Affordable Housing in Australia Released

Mark Fowler (11 May 2015) Last Friday, 08 May 2015, the Senate Committee conducting an inquiry into affordable housing in Australian released its report. This update is divided into the following headings: Means to Address Lack of Affordability; Public Stock Transfers; White Papers on Federation and on Tax; Extension of the National Rental Affordability Scheme;

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