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  1. Xero offers new conversion tool

    their clients”. The new tool comes in addition to the MYOB-to-Xero conversion tool, which Xero indefinitely extended last year for thousands of accountants and bookkeepers. Xero Australia managing director Chris Ridd said the new tool comes in response...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business

  2. Accounting jobs most at risk from automation, warns PwC

    Accounting has topped a list of professions which, according to PwC, are “most at risk from computerisation and technology”. In a recent report, PwC said many of the jobs in which people work today will simply not exist by the next decade, either...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Business

  3. CAANZ outlines Budget wish list

    “Short-term cuts are only going to serve as a Band-aid, and they risk destabilising business and consumer confidence. The last thing we need is a pre-election Budget. We need a Budget that is strategic and forward thinking,” Mr White said.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business

  4. End-of-year valuation principles for SMSFs

    property may not need an annual valuation unless a significant event occurred that may have changed its value since it was last valued. As long as the trustees are able to demonstrate that the valuation has been arrived at using a fair and reasonable...

  5. ATO warns SMSFs on franking credits scheme

    against claiming franking credit benefits by channelling dividends from shares in private companies through SMSFs. The ATO last week issued taxpayer alert TA 2015/1 warning SMSF members against the practice. According to the ATO, this occurs when a...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Super

  6. Leave dividend imputation alone, says RSM Bird Cameron

    investors. Dividend imputation has been debated vigorously since the government released the Tax Discussion Paper last month, which posed several questions around the value of the system, including whether the dividend imputation system is continuing to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business

  7. CCH hires former Reckon leader

    addition to our Asia Pacific business and will be integral to the global success story that is CCH iFirm.” As reported last week in AccountantsDaily, Mr Sanders’ departure from Reckon has seen Sam Allert promoted to the newly-created position of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Business

  8. Xero announces triple digit revenue growth

    on Friday which reveal Australian customers now exceed 203,000, up 86 per cent from the 109,000 customers at the same time last year. Of the new customers, Xero said 35 per cent have switched from other accounting software providers. Globally,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business

  9. IGT to handle tax complaints

    Our goal is to ensure that taxpayers and tax practitioners are treated with fairness and respect,” Mr Noroozi said. Last year, the ombudsman reported that his office had received 1,369 complaints about the ATO. The IGT has worked with the ombudsman to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Tax

  10. CFO optimism surging, says Deloitte

    he added. “This is great news, and the underlying story appears to be the Australian dollar falling 15 per cent in the last six months to below the US$0.80 mark, and interest rates at record lows, and possibly heading lower still. “The dollar in...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business

  11. SMEs 'frustrated' by Australia's online providers

    with the cost. The same survey revealed that 46 per cent of SMEs are now using cloud computing, up nine per cent in the last six months. MYOB chief technology officer Simon Raik-Allen said that while it is encouraging to see the increased adoption of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business

  12. Pitcher Partners poaches KPMG tax expert

    with a formidable depth of talent in the partner group and its wider teams. I’m thrilled to be joining," he said. In the last 12 months, the Pitcher Partners Association has announced six new partner appointments in Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Tax

  13. ATO shifting approach to wealthy Australians

    “While most wealthy Australians and their private groups do the right thing – contributing around $31 billion in income tax last financial year – some choose to avoid tax,” Mr Cranston said. “We are shifting our approach and will be visiting our largest...

  14. TPB defends termination process

    and Management Accountants (ATMA) as a recognised tax agent association. Following comments published on AccountantsDaily last week in which ATMA president Bob Duncan expressed disappointment with the TPB’s handling of the matter, the board defended its...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business

  15. Tax office provides clarification on LRBAs

    clarification from the ATO on whether two recent interpretive decisions will be applied retrospectively. In December last year, the ATO issued two interpretive decisions, ATO ID 2014/39 and ATO ID 2014/40, which confirmed that nil interest borrowing...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Miranda Brownlee
    • Category: Tax

  16. Tax agent fined for 'reckless' conduct

    the increase and to ensure they are wary when taking on new clients. “This is the second similar case in the courts in the last two weeks. Now, more than ever, agents need to be vigilant when taking on new clients. “As you can see from this case, there...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Tax

  17. Tax agent found guilty of TASA breach

    (TASA) by recklessly making statements to the commissioner of taxation that were false, incorrect or misleading. The Court last week declared that between August and September 2011, Cheng Cheng Li of Sydney, a registered tax agent, prepared and lodged...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Tax

  18. Xero releases features to boost productivity

    the Online Quotes feature builds on the recently launched and highly popular Sales Quotes feature. “We launched Sales Quotes last month and since then the team has been focused on building the ability to do Online Quotes, building on the existing...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business

  19. Chartered accountant sentenced to jail

    a chartered accountant to 11 years in jail for his part in a $450 million tax fraud. Anthony James Dickson was sentenced last week to a minimum seven years' jail on two fraud charges. According to a Supreme Court judgement summary, the first was an...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Regulation

  20. ATO second commissioner big winner in Tax Institute awards

    The Tax Institute has announced the winners of its annual Tax Adviser of the Year awards at a ceremony on the Gold Coast last night. ATO second commissioner Andrew Mills was named Chartered Tax Adviser of the Year while the Corporate Tax Adviser of the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Tax
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