Increasing transparency of the beneficial ownership of companies

As part of Australia’s first Open Government National Action Plan the Government committed to improve transparency of information on beneficial ownership and control of companies available to relevant authorities. A key milestone for this commitment was the release of a public consultation paper seeking views on the details, scope and implementation of a beneficial ownership register for companies.

Making a Submission

Interested parties are invited to comment on the consultation paper.

While submissions may be lodged electronically or by post, electronic lodgement is preferred. For accessibility reasons, please submit responses sent via email in a Word or RTF format. An additional PDF version may also be submitted.

All information (including name and address details) contained in submissions will be made available to the public on the Treasury website unless you indicate that you would like all or part of your submission to remain in confidence. Automatically generated confidentiality statements in emails do not suffice for this purpose. Respondents who would like part of their submission to remain in confidence should provide this information marked as such in a separate attachment.

Legal requirements, such as those imposed by the Freedom of Information Act 1982, may affect the confidentiality of your submission.

Closing date for submissions: Monday, 13 March 2017

Address written submissions to:

Manager
Corporations and Schemes Unit
Financial System Division
The Treasury
Langton Crescent
PARKES ACT 2600

For enquiries please call Jodi Keall +61 2 6263 2311.

Source: The Commonwealth of Australia