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Another case involving Moreton Resources Ltd

June 10th, 2024

Moreton Resources Ltd (currently under external administration per ASIC records) has been involved in several cases heard in the AAT and federal court regarding disputes over the company’s significate refundable R&D Tax Offset claims. Moreton Resources Ltd has also been one of the few companies to have attained a favourable outcome in a dispute with the R&D Tax regulators in recent years. The company has been involved in new AAT case recently (Moreton Resources Ltd and Commissioner of Taxation (Taxation) [2024] AATA […]

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AAT Case Finding Partially in Favour of an R&D Entity that Activities were Eligible: Moreton Resources [2022] – Video

February 24th, 2023

The content of this video has been based on guidance publications released by AusIndustry and the ATO. Additional guidance material on the R&D Tax Incentive is often progressively published by the program regulators on their respective websites: ATO AusIndustry

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Updated AAT Decision (Moreton Resources Ltd V IISA) Finds Some Disputed Activities Were R&D Activities

November 25th, 2022

Last decade, there were a number of R&D Tax Disputes heard by the courts with the majority of decisions seeming to find in favour of the regulators that claims (most of which were large) were not eligible. The original Federal Court decision in 2019 regarding Moreton Resources Ltd and Industry Innovation and Science Australia was big news at the time, since it represented one of the few matters where a decision was ruled even partially in favour of a taxpayer. […]

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Moreton Resources (Subject Of R&D Tax Disputes) Enters Voluntary Administration

June 16th, 2020

Moreton Resources Ltd announced to the ASX on 10 June that the company has appointed administrators. Moreton Resources Ltd had become well publicised for its ongoing R&D tax disputes with Innovation and Science Australia: A decision by the AAT in September 2018 found in favour of Innovation and Science Australia, concluding that registered R&D Activities were not R&D Activities in accordance with the legislative criteria; A subsequent appeal to the federal court in July 2019, found in favour of Moreton […]

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