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  1. ‘Fundamentally flawed, backwards step’: ACCI pushes back on penalty rates bill

    advocacy group has called the government's penalty rates legislation a “backwards step” following its passing in the Senate last week. On 28 August, parliament passed the Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Act 2025, ensuring the...

  2. Most SMBs find accountants through word of mouth

    ask ‘some’ of their clients. For small practices, 32 per cent of accountants reported not asking any clients at all. In the last year, just one in five (22 per cent) of businesses have referred their accountant to peers, 11 per cent of which have only...

  3. Help save the legal industry in a post-AI world: do your estate plan using a will kit

    acknowledged that while the deceased could apparently speed read, his composing skills, at least when it came to making his last will 'lacked the sublime expressive craft of Burns'. In particular, the deceased prepared his will using what was described...

  4. Personal insolvencies see uptick for June 2025 quarter

    year saw 3,179 business-related personal insolvencies, highlighting a 7.9 per cent increase in comparison to the same period last year. According to the statistics revealed by the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA), of the total 3,179...

  5. Common sense the best defence against fraudsters: forensic auditor

    to anybody looking at that document.” “You have got to do your general checks and balances. Check for signatures, check for last year's documents compared to this year's documents, maybe even something for you to use as a bit of a benchmark. “Or have...

  6. ‘Results in paying more tax’: ATO warns Australians against early super access

    grounds is available in very limited circumstances for critical medical procedures and should only be considered as a last resort where all other options of paying for the eligible expenses have been exhausted.” The ATO noted that in the case a dentist...

  7. ‘Catalyst for change’: Data reveals benefits of Right to Disconnect law

    of always being ‘on’, this is your moment to reset.” For the businesses that have operated with this right in place for the last 12 months, data from Robert Half revealed 56 per cent of employers had received formal complaints, concerns or requests from...

  8. TPB unveils 2025–26 focus to strengthen compliance, trust, support

    ongoing interactions with the tax profession, as well as the complaints and referrals about tax advisers, totalling 14,000 last year. From this, the TPB warned it would take action against those who failed to address serious misconduct as it aimed to...

  9. The $2m shareholder agreement that nearly killed a company

    I've been mediating shareholder disputes for years, but the case that landed on my desk last month revealed a dangerous blind spot in how accountants approach shareholder agreements. A profitable professional services company. Three decades of...

  10. Accountants not seen as strategic partners by SMBs

    15 per cent of all businesses view accountants as strategic partners, Agile reported. This does represent an uptick from last year’s score of 10 per cent, but ultimately, accountants currently have an “under-leveraged position” with their clients, the...

  11. Women in Finance Summit 2025 launches

    Prior to her current position, McPhee was the head of banking at the Reserve Bank of Australia, a role she has held for the last four years. The Women in Finance Summit 2025 will also detail business strategies from women leading successful businesses...

  12. CPA welcomes ATO’s commitment to service improvements

    the desired performance was not where it was needed, nor wanted to be, Heferen said there had been improvements over the last 12 to 18 months across the Tax Office. Such improvements included the ATO having answered 678,000 additional phone calls...

  13. Rate cut welcome, yet ‘flailing productivity’ needs more, business advocates say

    inflation data showing “a further leg down” in underlying inflation. “After the surprise RBA decision to leave rates on hold last month, there was no such surprise this month with the RBA delivering a widely expected 0.25 per cent rate cut taking its...

  14. Ex-PwC partner gets registration terminated for $11m tax shortfall

    action against PwC for “being wrongly linked to the firm’s tax leaks scandal and has not practised as a tax agent since last year”. “PwC named him in July 2023 as one of the eight partners who had left or were in the process of being removed from the...

  15. RBA reveals August 2025 cash rate call

    Following last month’s shock hold, find out, in this special announcement brought to you by Accounting Home Loans, if the Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to raise, hold, or cut interest rates at its second meeting of the new financial year. In...

  16. Use of accountants skyrockets once business revenue hits $100k

    professionals choose tech “by credibility and community”, and that half of accounting firms have not adopted new tech in the last five years.

  17. KPMG responds to ‘large scale tax fraud’ conducted by former employee

    Last week, an AFP and ATO raid unearthed that a former KPMG manager had allegedly “orchestrated a large scale tax fraud”, raking in $1 million in fraudulent tax refunds. As previously reported by Accountants Daily, a raid by the ATO and Australian...

  18. Distribution traps for corporate beneficiaries

    their TFN to the trustee before the payment or distribution is made, the trustee must lodge a TFN report with the ATO by the last day of the month following the end of the quarter in which the TFN was quoted. For present entitlements arising in the June...

  19. AI regulation must come with SME support, says CPA Australia

    that 26 per cent of Australian small businesses had invested in new technology which had proved profitable over the last year, compared to 56 per cent across 11 other markets. It also found that 39 per cent of Australian SMEs reported that more than 10...

  20. And that’s a rap: Div 296 tax gets an upbeat rendition

    for a few years now, and this is just the latest drop,” Ong told Accountants Daily's sister brand, SMSF Adviser. “The last one was on the Bendel case about unpaid present entitlements. This was a way of keeping sane amongst all the doom and gloom that...

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