In this not to be missed panel session with representatives of regulators and key policy advisers, the panel will discuss the opportunities that regulators have and will pursue to make administration world leading. Starting with the improvements to date, the regulators will discuss how they can leverage the data they are accumulating to make interaction with the system painless, quick, and cheap.

Speakers

	Teresa Dyson Former Chair of Board of Taxation		Andrew Mills, CTA (Life) The Tax Institute
	Jeremy Hirschhorn, CTA Second Commissioner, Australian Taxation Office		Paul Tilley Former Treasury official

Some controversial pathways relating to the fundamental design of the superannuation system, the taxation of private wealth and transfer of wealth following death were considered in the focus session. This session will look at how well-designed tax law can provide:

• A sustainable superannuation and retirement system
• Increased equity regarding the tax treatment of private wealth assets
• Appropriate tax outcomes following the death of a taxpayer.

Speakers

	Leanne Connor, CTA WGC Business Advisors		Chris Wallis, CTA Victorian Bar
	Paul Sokolowski, CTA Arnold Bloch Leibler

In a wide-ranging discussion, this session will consider:

• How the interaction of Federal and State taxes can be improved
• The case for land tax versus stamp duty as the primary State property tax
• Whether any inefficient indirect taxes can be removed by broadening the base of other more efficient taxes.

Speakers

	Anne Collins Glencore		Geoff Mann, CTA Ashurst
	Nathan Deveson, CTA MinterEllison		Chris Sievers Victorian Bar

This session will draw on the ideas expressed in the focus session and further consider:

• How reforms options can improve the interaction of the personal taxation system and the transfer system and remove anomalous outcomes
• How the rules relating to work-related expenses, residency and personal exertion income can best be simplified
• Whether the marginal tax rate settings are appropriately progressive.

Speakers

	Debra Anderson, ATI Anderson Tax		Neil Earle, CTA (Life) DFK Benjamin King Money
	Prof Robert Breunig Tax and Transfer Policy Institute

The GST is 20 years old and there has been no real change in that time. This session will challenge whether the current settings sustainable for the next 20 years? Overtly omitted from the Henry review in 2009, changes to the GST should be considered as part of a serious tax reform discussion. This session will consider whether it is appropriate to:

• Increase the rate
• Broaden the base to ensure an increasing segment of the economy which currently escapes the GST, namely GST-free supplies, should be subject to GST
• Make any other reforms to the GST.

Speakers

	Ken Fehily, CTA Fehily Advisory		Kevin O’Rourke O’Rourke Consulting
	Marg Marshall, CTA WLF Accounting & Advisory		Alison Marshall, CTA PwC

This session will draw on the expertise from different jurisdictions and times that the panellists have experienced to outline how reform can be achieved and implemented. What are the key ingredients to making change occur and stick?

Speakers

	Dr Julianne Jaques, CTA Victorian Bar		Viva Hammer Brandeis University		Hon. Dominic Perrottet MP NSW Treasurer
	Rt Hon Sir Bill English former Prime Minister of New Zealand		Hon. Andrew Leigh MP Shadow Assistant Minister for Treasury and Charities

In this concluding plenary session for the entire event series, Andrew Mills and his fellow commentators will make some final observations about the pathways and options for reform that have emerged from the virtual event. In wrapping up, they will set out the next steps as to how the wide range of enthusiastic ideas and reform options will be packaged up as a ‘Case for Change’, to be presented to the Federal and State governments.

Speakers

	Andrew Mills, CTA (Life) The Tax Institute		Peter Godber, CTA President, The Tax Institute
	Grant Wardell-Johnson, CTA KPMG