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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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.

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. Most accountants are tech enablers for clients

    with one in two (49 per cent) professionals and their firms noting they had not adopted any new accounting tech in the last five years, with only 14 per cent of those surveyed having adopted a new platform in the past year. Moreover, the discovery...

  14. Deferred tax accounting not guaranteed to improve Div 296 outcome

    of turning tax effect accounting on if it's not something that you already do,” Formica said on a Heffron and Class webinar last week, adding that generally this commentary is around its interaction with Div 296. “As a general rule, when we're doing a...

  15. Firms provide tips for SBR success as approval rates decline

    definitely the ‘flavour’ of the month. I think when the SBR started, the ATO were quite relaxed and what's happened over the last 18 months or two years, is that they have certainly become more stringent and closely monitored, which is good, especially...

  16. ‘Cut red tape and boost tech’: SME community needs support, revival

    for small businesses by adopting a “tell us once” compliance model as part of its reform. At the Small Business Roundtable last Thursday (24 July) with Dr Anne Aly, Minister for Small Business, provided three top priorities for the government to...

  17. ATO issues warning as GST fraud surges in property and construction

    particularly by privately owned and wealthy groups. “Despite warnings from the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce late last year, recent observations show dishonest claims involving false invoicing are growing,” he said. “While the numbers of businesses...

  18. Accountants choose tech ‘by credibility and community’

    with one in two (49 per cent) professionals and their firms noting they had not adopted any new accounting tech in the last five years, with only 14 per cent of those surveyed having adopted a new platform in the past year. How accountants choose their...

  19. Div 296 unlikely to enter parliament in first sitting fortnight

    any possibility of the bill re-entering parliament during July, pushing the earliest date for its introduction to the last week of August. Speaking to the ABC on Monday night, Finance Minister Katy Gallagher said there were still discussions underway to...

  20. 46% of Aussie SMEs directly impacted by interest rate changes, MYOB reveals

    in December 2024 to 45 per cent in June 2025. On the other hand, it was found that confidence had somewhat improved over the last six months, with just over 21 per cent now expecting to see the economy improve by December 2025. Chadwick said there was...