Business

ATO extends credit card payment option to 30 June 2027, silent on initial...

The ATO has extended the acceptance of credit cards for tax debts until 30 June 2027, and while the expanded timeline...

12 October 2026 • By Carlos Tse

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Tax reform measures risk adding to red tape burden: CPA Australia

As the release of the Red Tape Reduction Review is awaited, the accounting body said it is hard to reconcile adding...

09 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

Accountant thrown under bus in director’s judgment debt fight

A director has agreed to a default judgment of nearly $3 million after non-participation in proceedings that canvassed...

09 October 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Business

Grant Thornton Australia appoints financial advisory partner in Melbourne

The mid-tier firm has welcomed a new partner to its financial advisory practice in its Melbourne office.

09 October 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Business

‘ALP has never liked trusts’: Government denounced for rushing trust tax reform

The government has failed to “dot their i’s and cross their t’s” in their discretionary trust tax proposals and...

08 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

Accounting finalists shine at Commercial Finance Awards

An exceptional group of finalists from the accounting profession have been revealed for the third annual Commercial...

08 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

‘Never set foot in Australia’: Offshore accountant files unfair dismissal...

An employer has lost its jurisdictional objection case after a Philippines-based accountant claimed unfair dismissal...

08 October 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Business

Can paying tax in the wrong year prevent being taxed in the right year? Court...

A recent court case has shown that a taxpayer paying CGT on a sold property in the wrong year did not stop the ATO...

07 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

Tax reforms leave accountants, clients in planning ‘limbo’

A tax adviser has shared how his accounting firm is grappling with the complexity and uncertainty around the...

07 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

‘Deplorable’: ATO’s bargain breakdown shifts red dot on business cash flow

With the ATO confirming that it failed to secure a lower surcharge with banks before bringing out the credit card ban...

07 October 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Business

CA ANZ pathways program delivers boost to membership numbers

The professional body plans to further expand accessible pathways into the profession through new student offerings...

08 October 2026 • By Miranda Brownlee

Business

‘We don’t have crystal balls’: Trust tax rigidity causing angst

The lack of flexibility in the trust tax legislation is a major concern for accountants and is going to require some...

06 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

‘Placeholder’ SMSF return completion triggers trustee penalties

To ensure complying status (and, in turn, access to the concessionary 15 per cent income tax regime), the obligations...

06 October 2026 • By Matthew Burgess, View Legal

Business

HLB Mann Judd adds 4 new directors

The firm has elevated two senior managers, one associate director, and one former big four senior manager to its...

05 October 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Tax

Punished tax return preparer pockets almost $50k

Hiding his identity behind his clients’ myGov accounts, one tax preparer has been caught red-handed and made $150,000...

05 October 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Business

Businesses should not absorb merchant fees, accountant says

With surcharge removals coming into effect yesterday, one accounting principal has said he will advise his business...

02 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Technology

How AI helped this firm win a land tax case against the Queensland Revenue...

An AI-powered start-up law firm has used its internal AI system to win a tax proceeding in Queensland, which not only...

02 October 2026 • By Matthew Taylor

Tax

NTAA concerned by extensive use of ministerial determinations in trust tax...

The deferral of six major matters to ministerial determination in the draft legislation for the trust tax changes...

05 October 2026 • By Miranda Brownlee