On 17 March 2021, the Australian Government introduced a Bill into Parliament with measures to reform Australia’s Offshore Banking Unit (OBU) regime (Treasury Laws Amendment (2021 Measures No. 2) Bill 2021). The previously announced amendments are in response to concerns raised in 2018 by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Forum for Harmful Tax Practices that Australia’s OBU regime has harmful preferential tax features.
The Bill proposes to:
- Remove the effective 10% concess…