Bills Committee on
Inland Revenue (Amendment) Bill 2000

Fifth Meeting on
Tuesday, 9 December 2003, at 8:30 am
in Conference Room A of the Legislative Council Building

Agenda

I.	Confirmation of minutes of meeting (8:30 am - 8:35 am)
			LC Paper No.
	Minutes of meeting on 13 November 2003		CB(1)484/03-04 (issued on 2 December 2003)
II.	Meeting with the Administration (8:35 am - 10:25 am) Correspondence between Assistant Legal Adviser 1 (ALA1) and the Administration
		ALA1's letter	Administration's reply
	Letter dated 13 November 2003 from ALA1 to the Administration on the technical aspects of the proposed Committee Stage amendments	CB(1)500/03-04 (01) (issued on5 December 2003)	CB(1)500/03-04 (02) (English version issuedon 8 December 2003,Chinese version to follow)
	Written submissions and Administration's response
	Organizations	Written submissions	Administration's response
		LC Paper No.	LC Paper No.
	Capital Markets Tax Committee of Asia (Hong Kong Chapter)	CB(1)500/03-04 (03) (English version only) (issued on5 December 2003)	(to follow)
	Hong Kong Society of Accountants	CB(1)531/03-04 (01) (English version only) (issued on8 December 2003)	(to follow)
	Joint Liaison Committee on Taxation	CB(1)500/03-04 (04) (English version only) (issued on5 December 2003)	(to follow)
	The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Hong Kong	CB(1)500/03-04 (05) (English version only) (issued on5 December 2003)	(to follow)
	The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce	CB(1)500/03-04 (06) (English version only) (issued on5 December 2003)	Administration's response not required
	The Hong Kong Association of Banks	CB(1)500/03-04 (07) (English version only) (issued on5 December 2003)
	The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong	CB(1) 500/03-04 (08) (English version only) (issued on5 December 2003)	(to follow)
	The Taxation Institute of Hong Kong	CB(1) 500/03-04 (09) (English version only) (issued on5 December 2003)	(to follow)
	Other papers
			LC Paper No.
	Administration's paper on response to concerns raised at the meeting on 13 November 2003		CB(1)531/03-04 (02) (English version issuedon 8 December 2003,Chinese version to follow)
	Summary of deputations' views submitted to the Bills Committee and the Administration's response upon re-activation of the Bill		CB(1)500/03-04 (10) (to follow)
	Paper provided by the Administration on "Results of the Consultations and Effects of the Proposed Committee Stage Amendments"		CB(1)7/03-04 (01) (issued on 2 October 2003)
	Revised proposed Committee Stage amendments provided by the Administration on 7 November 2003		CB(1)303/03-04 (01) (issued on11 November 2003)
	Marked-up copy of revised proposed Committee Stage amendments provided by the Administration on 7 November 2003		CB(1)303/03-04 (02) (issued on12 November 2003)
	List of issues requiring follow-up actions by the Administration (Position as at 8 December 2003)		CB(1)531/03-04 (03) (issued on8 December 2003)
III.	Any other business (10:25 am - 10:30 am) (A list of other relevant papers and submissions previously issued is in the Appendix to agenda.)

Council Business Division 1
Legislative Council Secretariat
8 December 2003

Appendix to Agenda

	Papers	Paper No./Ref.
	Bill gazetted on 5 October 2000	LC Paper No. CB(3)29/00-01 (issued on 4 October 2000)
	Legislative Council Brief	File Ref: FIN CR 1/2306/00 (issued by the Finance Bureauon 29 September 2000)
	Legal Service Division Report	LC Paper No. LS8/00-01 (issued on 16 October 2000)
	Correspondence between the Legal Service Division (LSD) and the Administration	LC Paper No. CB(1)129/00-01 (03) (issued on 3 November 2000)
	Information paper provided by the Administration - Examples of the kinds of avoidance schemes to be addressed with the proposed amendments to section 16(2) of the Inland Revenue Ordinance (Cap. 112)	LC Paper No. CB(1)185/00-01 (01) (issued on 17 November 2000)
	The Administration's response to the concerns raised by the Bills Committee at the 6 and 20 November 2000 meetings	LC Paper No. CB(1)248/00-01 (07) (English and Chinese versions issued on 1 and 6 December 2000 respectively)
#	Proposed Committee Stage amendments provided by the Administration on 25 July 2003	LC Paper CB(1)2323/02-03 (01) (issued on 1 August 2003)
# The Administration has provided a set of revised Committee Stage amendments on 7 November 2003.
	Submissions	LC Paper No./Ref.
*	PricewaterhouseCoopers Limited	CB(1)248/00-01 (01) (English version only) (issued on 1 December 2000)
*	Supplementary information provided by the PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd.	CB(1)273/00-01 (03) (English version only) (issued on 6 December 2000)
	The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Hong Kong	CB(1)248/00-01 (02) (English and Chinese versionsissued on 1 and 8 December 2000 respectively)
	The Taxation Institute of Hong Kong	CB(1)248/00-01 (03) (English version only) (issued on 1 December 2000)
	Hong Kong Society of Accountants	CB(1)248/00-01 (04) (English version only) (issued on 2 December 2000)
*	The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce	CB(1)248/00-01 (05) (English version only) (issued on 1 December 2000)
	Woo, Kwan, Lee & Lo	CB(1)248/00-01 (06) (English version only) (issued on 1 December 2000)
	The Hong Kong Association of Banks	CB(1)274/00-01 (English version only) (issued on 6 December 2000)
	Hong Kong Bar Association	CB(1)351/00-01 (English version only) (issued on 19 December 2000)
	Capital Markets Tax Committee of Asia (Hong Kong Chapter)	CB(1)366/00-01 (English version only) (issued on 22 December 2000)
	The Real Estate Developers Association of Hong Kong	CB(1)510/00-01 (English version only) (issued on 29 January 2001)
	Summary of deputations' concerns (Covering deputations who have agreed to release their submissions to the public)	CB(1)303/03-04 (03) (issued on 11 November 2003)
	Summary of deputations' concerns(Covering deputatons who have advised that their submissions should not be released to the public)	CB(1)303/03-04 (04) (issued on 11 November 2003)
* Deputations who have advised that their submissions should not be released to the public.

Council Business Division 1
Legislative Council Secretariat
8 December 2003