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      • Ancillary Fund Rule Changes
      • Key Insights from the Not-for-profit Sector Development Blueprint
      • TR 2013/2 – Income tax: school or college building funds
      • Full Federal Court’s PBI judgment on Equality Australia Ltd v Commissioner of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
      • Productivity Commission – Future foundations for giving – Draft report
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      • Update on recent changes to the Corporations Act affecting members’ rights to elect to receive company documents
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      • Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers Launch Week
      • Prolegis Lawyers ranked Band 1 by Chambers
      • Recent changes to the Corporations Act for electronic meetings, notices, minute books and e-signing due to the Covid-19 pandemic
      • Recent decisions in Australian charity law – update
      • New requirements for DGRs to be registered as charities with the ACNC
      • High Court rules on who is a Casual employee
      • Streamlining of regulation of charities undertaking fundraising in NSW
      • Changes to Charities’ Financial Reporting Obligations
      • Changes to Casual Employment
      • Women’s Life Centre – A recent decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal regarding Public Benevolent Institutions (PBIs)
      • Final Report of the 2020 Review of Disability Standards for Education 2005
      • Private Ancillary Form
      • Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety - final report released
      • UPDATE 25 February 2021: Introducing ACNC Governance Standard 6 and changes to Basic Religious Charity eligibility
      • Treasury Consultation: Proposed changes to ACNC Governance Standard 3
      • Breaking: Charities to lose charitable status if they fail to join the National Redress Scheme
      • New Bill – Requiring DGRs to Register as Charities
      • Federal Budget 2020-21
      • NZ High Court finds Greenpeace NZ should be registered as a charity
      • A member of a charity has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of the charity?
      • Key Changes- incorporated associations in Queensland
      • Bill for new DGR category for Community Sheds now law
      • UPDATE 2 June 2020: SME Commercial Leasing Principles During COVID-19 - what does it mean for charities and not-for-profits?
      • Draft bill for new DGR Category: Men’s and Women’s Sheds
      • ACNC to review registered charities beginning with Public Benevolent Institutions in July 2020
      • Government response to the recommendations of the ACNC Legislation Review
      • Fundraising– considerations for charities, fundraisers and donors
      • Minute-taking post Banking Royal Commission
      • Taxation Ruling: 'in Australia' conditions
      • Key changes to the Victorian Fundraising Act
      • New protections for whistleblowers – what does it mean for charities and not-for-profits? UPDATE
      • Significant Changes in Payment and Record Keeping Requirements for Clerical and Administrative Staff
      • New Tax Office Ruling - Fringe Benefits Provided to Religious Practitioners
      • ACNC External Conduct Standards - Update
      • Fair Work Australia decision will introduce changes in entitlements and record keeping requirements of clerical and administrative employees
      • Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
      • National Redress Scheme Update
      • DGR reform proposals
      • Release of the ACNC Review Report
      • Not So Casual
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We work exclusively in relation to charities, not-for-profits and philanthropy.

Structures: establishment & restructuring

Specialist advice on establishment or restructuring of charities, not-for-profits and philanthropic entities

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  • assisting you to determine or recast your charitable purposes
  • advising on the best legal structures and optimal tax structuring
  • advising on the legal and tax issues arising from such a restructure
  • transfers of incorporation, and transfers of registrations of incorporated associations
  • amalgamating state based affiliated organisations and federations into one national body
  • advising on options for transferring assets from one related organisation to another
  • advising on options for structuring and governing deductible gift recipient funds
  • advising on options to enhance control of one entity over another (for example in the context of a school over its fundraising foundation)
  • advising on structuring options for corporate foundations and other funds that make grants for community or charitable purposes
  • advising commercial organisations in relation to restructuring charitable activities and workplace giving schemes

  • Assisting a school to restructure to bring its separately incorporated foundation under its control and to rationalise its existing, and create new, deductible gift recipients
  • Advising a national charity on restructuring state-based entities
  • Advising an Australian philanthropist on restructure of philanthropic entities and special listing as a deductible gift recipient under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth)
  • Advising on the establishment of a medical research charity
  • Advising on complex and non-traditional charitable purposes and entities

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Latest News

  • March 2026
    Ancillary Fund Rule Changes
  • February 2025
    Key Insights from the Not-for-profit Sector Development Blueprint
  • October 2024
    TR 2013/2 – Income tax: school or college building funds
  • September 2024
    Full Federal Court’s PBI judgment on Equality Australia Ltd v Commissioner of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission
  • December 2023
    Productivity Commission – Future foundations for giving – Draft report

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  • Ancillary Fund Rule Changes March 2026
  • Key Insights from the Not-for-profit Sector Development Blueprint February 2025
  • TR 2013/2 – Income tax: school or college building funds October 2024

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