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By services, 8 April, 2018

Australian Family Court orders, that were made by consent between Mr and Ms Ellison, required a corporation (“Sandini” - that was controlled by Mr Ellison) in its capacity of the Ellison family trust to forthwith transfer 2.1M shares of a public company to Ms Ellison. However, Ms Ellison instead got Sandini to transfer those shares to a company controlled by her (“Wavefront”). This precluded rollover relief to Mr Ellison (under s.

By services, 28 November, 2015

The taxpayer and her husband were both members of the clergy who ministered to a congregation. The taxpayer's husband's housing allowance covered nearly all of their rent and utilities, and the taxpayer had over $19,000 of housing allowance that did not go towards those expenses. Webb J. found that the taxpayer was eligible for a deduction under s. 8(1)(c)(iv) with respect to the relatively nominal portion of the rent and utilities which was not paid by her husband, but not under s. 8(1)(c)(iii).