BAN. 94397008

5th March 2013

General Manager
Revenue Group Law Design Practice
The Treasury
Langton Crescent
PARKES ACT 2600

AMENDED TAX AGENTS SERVICES ACT 2009

I write to support the principle expressed in Exposure Draft of the Amendments to the Tax Agent Services Act 2009.

Specifically

19 After subsection 90 10(1)

Insert:

(1A) The Board may, by legislative instrument, specify that another service is a BAS Service.

As a BAS Agent in Practice there are a number of real world duties that our clients expect us to perform that need to be included in our permitted roles. We support this change to allow the TPB to then immediately specify.

1.	The ascertaining of an obligation or liability of an entity, the provision of advice to an entity, the provision of information to the commissioner in relation to the Superannuation Guarantee laws and the Superannuation Guarantee Change laws.
2.	The ascertaining of an obligation or liability or an entity, the provision of advice to an entity, the rprovisionof information to the commissioner in relation to the Construction Industy reportable payments system (which required reporting in July 2013)

We also support the concept provided in the increased provision as to Professional Indemnity Insurance. We believe that for an Agents registration to be valid they must have a valid PII policy in place.

We see that by allowing the TPB to be able to respond to changes to other laws in this manner will be more appropriate.

Please contact me if you would like any further information in relation to the effects of this regime on my business.

Yours faithfully

Alison Lyon