Alia Lum
Alia is a Partner and KPMG Australia’s Tax Policy Lead.
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This article explores how MNEs can seize global opportunities by implementing strategic tax responses and business restructurings that are fit for the evolving landscape shaped by Pillar Two.
With the registration of the Pillar Two subordinate legislation on 23 December 2024, the full package of legislation implementing the Pillar Two Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) rules in Australia now has legal effect. This may trigger new current tax disclosures for financial statements.
In the second part of our future of tax policy series, Alia Lum discusses with David Bradbury the United Nations' efforts to scale up international tax cooperation and the challenges of tax reform here in Australia.
Additional administrative guidance under the Pillar Two rules has been released in January, including several developments aimed at streamlining the administration of the global minimum tax.
Although the Federal Government’s MYEFO did not include any major tax reforms, several tax measures were announced, as outlined by Alia Lum and Amanda Maguire.
The legislation to implement mandatory public disclosures of country-by-country tax information for multinational groups has been enacted, as outlined by Phil Beswick, Alia Lum, Tim Keeling, Sean Madden and Amanda Maguire.
With the Australian legislation introducing new mandatory public tax transparency reporting having passed Federal Parliament, organisations will need to consider appropriate actions to respond to the new requirements, as outlined by Phil Beswick, Alia Lum, Tim Keeling, Sean Madden and Katryne Chia.
This webinar, held on Wednesday 4 December, features KPMG Pillar Two subject matter experts from across our Asia Pacific tax practices, who will set out the latest developments with their local rule implementation.
KPMG Australia Tax Policy Lead Alia Lum speaks with the former Deputy Director for the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration - turned KPMG Consulting Partner - David Bradbury, as they discuss the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework's efforts in developing a global tax agreement among member countries and what the future may hold for BEPS 2.0.
Alia Lum and Amanda Maguire outline recent tax legislative developments and look ahead to 2025.
The legislation to implement mandatory public disclosures of country-by-country tax information for multinational groups has been passed by the Australian Parliament.
This webinar, held on Wednesday 20 November, includes an in-depth discussion on recent tax developments in the United States (US) and on BEPS 2.0.
KPMG’s report into gender equality in the workplace analyses why mothers and primary carers continue to face disincentives to work.
This webinar, to be held on Wednesday 20 November, will include an in-depth discussion on recent tax developments in the United States (US) and on BEPS 2.0.
This webinar, held on Tuesday 1 October, provides an update on all the elements of the BEPS 2.0 project, including Amounts A and B, GloBE and the Paris meeting on the Subject to Tax Rule.
While the Australian Government says it has signed a Statement of Support for the STTR, it is not yet clear whether (and if) Australia intends to give effect to the STTR, as outlined by Alia Lum and Amanda Maguire.
This webinar, to be held on Tuesday 1 October, will provide an update on all the elements of the BEPS 2.0 project, including Amounts A and B, GloBE and the Paris meeting on the Subject to Tax Rule.
KPMG has lodged a submission to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee regarding the proposed tax offset, which builds on a concept originally developed by Foodbank Australia and modelled by KPMG.
KPMG’s submission provides an analysis of Treasury’ consultation paper on proposed changes to the foreign resident capital gains tax (CGT) rules.
Companies may need to reflect the impact of upcoming changes in tax laws in their accounting disclosures.
Alia Lum, Georgie Aley, Amanda Maguire and Jacqui Payne provide an overview of the proposed tax offset under current drafting of the rules.
The proposal consists of three elements to “increase the integrity and certainty” of the foreign resident CGT rules, as outlined by Matt Ervin, Alia Lum and Amanda Maguire.
KPMG’s Tax Policy Lead Alia Lum discusses what organisations are doing to gather as much data as possible in order to begin the data analysis process.
This webinar, held on Thursday 11 July, will explore the latest guidance from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Australia has introduced the first part of its BEPS Pillar Two global minimum tax legislation into Parliament. In this article we set out the key changes from the draft legislation previously issued.
Our report summarises the highlights of the fourth tranche of administrative guidance on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s GloBE Model Rules.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has published additional guidance on key definitions related to Amount B.
This webinar, held on Thursday 30 May, explores Australia’s draft legislative package to implement the global minimum tax rules.
After a lengthy consultation process, the legislation to implement mandatory public disclosures of country-by-country tax information for multinational groups has been introduced to the Australian Parliament.
This report features KPMG’s submission to Treasury on the secondary legislation exposure draft materials, in relation to the Australian implementation of Pillar Two.

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This virtual event, hosted by Peter van Onselen, explores the various announcements contained in the Federal Budget.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has identified a number of government policy initiatives which would seek to address the economic challenge ahead, as outlined by Alia Lum.
The 2022-23 Budget holds out hope for the reform of inefficient taxes and also targets greater equity and opportunity for the people of New South Wales.
The Labor Party has secured government but has inherited a domestic economy that has a number of challenges, not least of which is a global economic environment that is experiencing large inflationary headwinds of a scale not seen for at least 40 years.
The 2022-23 budget includes significant funding for Victoria’s health sector following two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
With a federal election expected in May, this Budget attempts to lay out a steady course through the headwinds that remain.
This article outlines our current understanding of the most relevant categories of excluded entities which will be refined once the commentary is issued (expected as soon as early February).

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