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  1. Australians hit with biggest income tax increase in OECD

    and middle-income earners the most. Australians shouldered the biggest increase in income tax rates in the developed world last financial year due to bracket creep and the end of the LMITO, according to a report from the OECD. In the financial year...

  2. Family preferred to accountants for money advice, survey finds

    of 1,991 respondents aged between 18 and 65 in a nationally representative sample, conducted between November and December last year. Respondents were asked questions about financial literacy and attitudes towards money management and home ownership....

  3. Vacancy tax expansion: Getting your house in order by 1 July

    The vacancy residential land tax (VRLT) was expanded late last year to apply to all residential land in Victoria and not just specific inner suburbs within metropolitan Melbourne. The expansion commences from 1 January 2025, and applies the VRLT based...

  4. Government shirks big 4, senator calls for government consulting revamp

    to government consulting engagements as the Department of Finance continues to review PwC's government contracts. “The last year has revealed serious weaknesses in the regulation and enforcement of external contacts with the Commonwealth government,”...

  5. Higher-than-expected inflation figures to delay rate cuts, say economists

    2024 quarter. While prices continued to rise for most goods and services, annual CPI inflation was down from 4.1 per cent last quarter and has fallen from the peak of 7.8 per cent in December 2022,” said Marquardt. AMP deputy chief economist Diana...

  6. ‘Take advantage of deductions’ ahead of tax cuts, tax expert advises

    income is taxed at a lower rate in the next financial year, he explained. Another area to be aware of is that this is the last year people can take advantage of the carry-forward rules on unused super contribution concessions from the 2018-19 financial...

  7. Accountants cautioned on ‘unexpected tax consequences’ with Division 7A loans

    on the rules for minimum yearly repayments on complying loans as part of its increased educational focus in this area. Last month, the ATO outlined some of the common mistakes it sees with Division 7A. This included issues such as incorrect accounting...

  8. Insolvency has a gender problem, says Jirsch’s first female trustee

    Bankruptcy Act mandates trustee applicants show at least 4,000 hours of employment at a senior level in insolvency in the last five years – a requirement that Mos fell short of by “a few hundred hours”. While AFSA’s registration committee has the...

  9. CPA Australia axed 121 staff, services for internal revamp: report

    600-plus employees is double the 10-12 per cent target set by executives for the organisation's rolling redundancy program last year. Insiders have suspected the clear-out was financially driven to curb a bloated $90 million wage bill while CPA...

  10. ATO compliance hotspots for tax time 2024

    Expect them to focus in particular on: Deductions for working from home expenses. The way these could be claimed changed last year, with the introduction of a new 67 cents per hour fixed rate and enhanced substantiation requirements. We expect the ATO...

  11. Weaponising trust: When cyber criminals abuse cloud applications

    is not being spared cyber incidents and major data breaches. At least two incidents that occurred in Australia in the last 18 months should be on every financial professional’s mind, and are perfect examples that tight regulations do not shield...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tony Burnside, Netskope
    • Category: Technology

  12. ATO updates client-agent linking system to prevent ‘inadvertent errors’

    client agent linking (CAL) process,” said Franks. Franks said while the announced changes by the ATO will improve one of the last steps, the ability of a tax agent to link to a client, it does not address the main issues that tax agents face. “These...

  13. Company failures on track to reach 12-year high: ASIC

    financial year. ASIC recorded 7,742 company failures in the past nine months, over a one-third increase on the same period last year, according to insolvency data published yesterday. “With only one quarter remaining this financial year, it’s expected...

  14. ATO explores ‘digitised guidance’ to combat Division 7A issues

    possibility of a BAS-free future or push-BAS future, an initiative flagged by former commissioner of taxation Chris Jordan last year. “We are using this challenge of ‘digital first’ to imagine what our future state could look like. Two possibilities we...

  15. EY cuts 148 staff citing low consulting, financial services demand

    decision" was driven by a “continued downturn in demand” particularly across consulting and financial services. In November last year, the firm cut 232 staff from its headcount, citing similar market pressures. Then, the lion’s share of the redundancies...

  16. MYOB taps Sportsbet IT boss to ‘accelerate product development’

    Noonan’s appointment follows ex-Virgin and The Iconic executive Dean Chadwick joining as chief marketing officer in March last year.

  17. Draft legislation released to name and shame late payers

    legislation enacts all recommendations made by Dr Craig Emerson in his review of the Payment Times Reporting Act, which last year called for an urgent overhaul of the “impenetrable” and “poorly functioning” regime. Small Business Minister Julie Collins...

  18. External administrations hit record high in March

    to CreditorWatch. Deteriorating trading conditions and weak consumer demand drove external administrations to a record high last month, with small and medium businesses in construction and retail at the highest risk of collapse. The CreditorWatch...

  19. Personal insolvencies for business owners spike amid rising pressures

    in February, business-related insolvencies were up 17 per cent from January. They are also up by a third from the same month last year, according to the AFSA statistics. Rising land taxes and higher interest rates are forcing many Australian landlords...

  20. Global ethics body to probe firm culture amid accounting ‘trust crisis’

    International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) said in its three-year Strategy and Work Plan 2024-27 released last week that it was a matter of public interest to prioritise ethics. Without explicitly referring to PwC’s actions in...

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