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  1. 2 in 3 SME owners falter on succession as advice opportunity increases

    broader estate planning steps despite the issue rising up to second place on the list of business concerns, up from fifth last year. On the contrary, cash flow concerns have dropped from first spot in 2016/16 to fourth place this year. Boutique...

  2. Incoming property, GST laws a ‘sledgehammer to crack a nut’

    property, as some tax experts believe it’ll be a “major” change which is further reaching than the government intends. Last month, the government introduced legislation to implement the purchaser GST withholding regime for new residential premises. The...

  3. IPA locks in new software partnership

    with St.George to offer members concessional rates on home loans. The association also announced a deal with Qantas late last year, to incentivise its members via the Qantas Business Rewards program when they attend major IPA events, participate in...

  4. Tax reform a ‘smouldering heap’ in Australia, says mid-tier

    Ken Henry, a mid-tier firm has again thrown its support behind fixing Australia’s “floundering” attempts at tax reform. Last week Ken Henry said while he supports a cut in the corporate tax rate, it’s distracting from the broader need for comprehensive...

  5. Scammers target tax in voicemail hoax

    tactics are not necessarily as obviously fraudulent as they once were, as some well-regarded professionals have discovered. Last month, the ATO found scammers were sending fake ATO emails asking people to complete a 'tax refund form' to receive a...

  6. Federal Court judgment spotlights compliance quirk for accountants

    the super guarantee scheme could see some well-intentioned accountants caught out down the track, says one tax consultant. Last month, the Federal Court held that in Australian Workers' Union v BlueScope Steel (AIS) Pty Ltd [2018] FCA 80, the employer...

  7. Police checks for bookkeepers on the cards as ATO knuckles down on security

    a police check — that's another credibility item. “Watch this space, I was in a meeting with the chair of the TPB in the last week and they are certainly opening up on some of this.” [email protected]

  8. 'Alarmingly high' non-compliance surfaces at national franchise

    high level of non-compliance across its retail fuel outlets, I am not surprised by Caltex’s announcement to the ASX last week that it will transition franchise sites to company operations,” FWO Natalie James said. “FWO’s report shows Caltex Australia...

  9. IRS, ATO data causing a stir

    are not particularly well understood, especially in a superannuation context. For example, Moodys Gartner director Roy Berg last year explained that it’s not strictly US citizens that are subject to US estate tax, in a podcast with Accountants Daily....

  10. Tax and BAS agents could be hit with police checks

    a police check — that's another credibility item. “Watch this space, I was in a meeting with the chair of the TPB in the last week and they are certainly opening up on some of this.” [email protected]

  11. Automated assistants, bots tipped to ramp up in accounting space

    help explain information and find answers. For example I can ask my mobile banking app how much I spent at Woolworths in the last six months and it will tell me,” he said. “We’ve actually put a little bot in our portal and it invites advisers to ask a...

  12. TPB drills in code breach potential with new data laws

    (APP) entities, as well as tax file number (TFN) recipients to the extent that TFN information is involved in a data breach. Last month, the TPB released guidance announcing that tax practitioners who failed to comply with the NDB scheme could face...

  13. ‘Greater audit activity’ for 2018 FBT lodgements

    their systems and calculations for the new rate, they should also consider the small businesses concessions that kicked in last year. From 1 April 2017, the turnover threshold for FBT concessions increased to $10 million, up from $2 million aggregated...

  14. CA Program headed for reform

    for the CA Program have been steadily increasingly. In 2015, CA Program enrolments stood at 20, 741. As at November last year, they totalled 23,056. CA ANZ could not provide comment by deadline. [email protected]

  15. Marching orders for firm as Fed Court brought in

    in February. It also follows the corporate regulator obtaining interim injunctions in the Perth Federal Court late last year against the firm, its sole director Max Goldenberg and its sole shareholder Travis Goldenberg. ASIC’s investigation to the...

  16. CA puts permanent timetable changes to board

    and now in 2018 are triggered by an overhaul of the CA Program’s timetable, which switched from semesters to trimesters. Last year’s fix of a supplementary term was a “backstop” measure, Mr Carpenter said, which required manual processing of affected...

  17. Tax Institute announces shake-up of vision, objectives

    professional success”. Mr Lendrum replaced long-serving chief executive Noel Rowland, who resigned suddenly in September last year. “This is already evident in the launch of the Women in Tax National Congress and the Women in Tax website, designed to...

  18. MYOB announces trial launch of STP product

    of that is making sure our customers have plenty of time to test out the new technology before the reporting deadlines.” Last month, MYOB chief executive Tim Reed said he was confident of his software being “ready to go” for the bulk of its user base,...

  19. ‘Really disappointing’: Chris Jordan lashes out at tax agents

    Mr Jordan said his disappointment with the industry was exacerbated following comments from the tax community on the ATO’s last practitioner webcast. “One of the comments made during the webcast was ‘I would say if you don’t claim the $300 deduction for...

  20. 'You can't put a firm in jail': ASIC backs its compliance approach

    to respond to misconduct in the sector, with a taskforce having completed a review of ASIC’s enforcement regime late last year. “There are significant parts of our legislation where the penalties are frankly inadequate and that's why there has been a...

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