Regulation

CPA calls on Board of Taxation to simplify tax compliance

CPA Australia has called on the Board of Taxation to simplify FBT, streamline multinational tax reporting requirements...

17 December 2025 • By Emma Partis

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Business

Clients frustrated by jargon, research finds

An overwhelming number of professional services clients are frustrated by hard-to-understand jargon, underscoring the...

16 December 2025 • By Jerome Doraisamy

Business

CA loses membership for misappropriating $289k from social housing trust

A New Zealand-based accountant has had her CA status revoked after she spent $289,000 using the company credit for...

16 December 2025 • By Emma Partis

Regulation

Philanthropy not-for-profit welcomes ATO clarity on PAFs

A not-for-profit organisation supporting philanthropy has welcomed a draft taxation determination from the ATO...

16 December 2025 • By Emma Partis

Business

Accountants can unwittingly help perpetrators of financial abuse, study finds

A new study on coerced business debts has found that accountants had unwittingly assisted perpetrators in cases of...

15 December 2025 • By Emma Partis

Tax

ATO shifts penalty remission requests online to improve consistency

From early next year, the ATO will require tax agents to lodge penalty remission requests online in a bid to improve...

15 December 2025 • By Emma Partis

Regulation

Former ATO contractor-turned-fraudster slapped with 18 months behind bars

A former ATO contractor has been found guilty of defrauding the Tax Office of more than $105,000, leading to an 18...

15 December 2025 • By Imogen Wilson

Business

Further rate cuts ‘not needed’: RBA governor

Hopes of further easing have been quashed by the governor of the central bank, who has confirmed that “additional cuts...

12 December 2025 • By Imogen Wilson

Business

Financial elder abuse: How accountants, bookkeepers can help break the cycle

Accountants and bookkeepers can play a key role in decreasing levels of financial elder abuse and should be proactive...

12 December 2025 • By Imogen Wilson

Regulation

Multiple code breaches land BAS agent with 2-year ban

A BAS agent has found themselves banned by the Tax Practitioners Board for two years for breaching multiple items of...

11 December 2025 • By Imogen Wilson

Tax

CA ANZ calls on government address ‘critical issues’ with FTE, FTDT provisions

CA ANZ has called on the Treasury to address issues with Australia’s family trust election and family trust...

10 December 2025 • By Emma Partis

Business

ASIC pledges regulatory simplification for small businesses

The corporate watchdog has pledged to ease some of the mounting pressure on small businesses with a newly revealed...

12 December 2025 • By Imogen Wilson

Business

Victorian government rejects VSBC abolition proposal

The Victorian government has rejected the recommendation to merge the Victorian Small Business Commission into the...

11 December 2025 • By Imogen Wilson

Business

RBA makes final rate call for 2025

The Reserve Bank has been widely expected to keep the cash rate on hold ahead of Christmas. In this special...

09 December 2025 • By Imogen Wilson

Business

ATO recoups over $1bn in unpaid super for 2024-25

Almost $1.1 billion in unpaid super has been returned to nearly one million Australians across 2024-25, the ATO has...

09 December 2025 • By Carlos Tse

Regulation

TPB reveals 2026 compliance focus areas

For the first time, the Tax Practitioners Board has publicly announced its focus areas for the year ahead in a move to...

09 December 2025 • By Emma Partis

Business

Women face more ‘negative behaviour’ than men in the profession, research finds

Despite a declining incidence of discriminatory behaviour, a new report found that women accountants still experience...

08 December 2025 • By Carlos Tse

Technology

‘All you can eat Xero data buffet’ comes to abrupt end

Late last week, Xero made the shock announcement that it was changing the structure of its API fees for app partners,...

08 December 2025 • By Imogen Wilson