Title | Judiciary Amendment Bill 2008 |
Database | Bills & Legislation |
Long Title | a Bill for an Act to amend the [itals]Judiciary Act 1903[eitals], and for related purposes |
Date | 01-12-2008 04:38 PM |
Source | House of Reps |
Parl No. | 42 |
Bill Number | 2008/090 |
Bill Type | Government |
Portfolio | Attorney-General portfolio |
Reps Bill Code | O |
Status | Act |
System Id | legislation/bills/r2964_first/0002 |
Schedule 1âLimits on actions to recover invalidly raised taxes
1 Section 79
Before âThe laws of each Stateâ, insert â(1)â.
2 At the end of section 79
Add:
(2) A provision of this Act does not prevent a law of a State or Territory covered by subsection (3) from binding a court under this section in connection with a suit relating to the recovery of an amount paid in connection with a tax that a law of a State or Territory invalidly purported to impose.
(3) This subsection covers a law of a State or Territory that would be applicable to the suit if it did not involve federal jurisdiction, including, for example, a law doing any of the following:
(a) limiting the period for bringing the suit to recover the amount;
(b) requiring prior notice to be given to the person against whom the suit is brought;
(c) barring the suit on the grounds that the person bringing the suit has charged someone else for the amount.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2), some examples of an amount paid in connection with a tax are as follows:
(a) an amount paid as the tax;
(b) an amount of penalty for failure to pay the tax on time;
(c) an amount of penalty for failure to pay enough of the tax;
(d) an amount that is paid to a taxpayer by a customer of the taxpayer and is directly referable to the taxpayerâs liability to the tax in connection with the taxpayerâs dealings with the customer.
3 Application
The amendments of the Judiciary Act 1903 made by this Schedule apply in relation to the recovery of amounts paid after the commencement of this Schedule.