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  1. H&R Block plans for automation, paperless rollout

    basic elements of their compliance-centric offerings. Mid-tier firm BDO announced a digital transformation project late last year for its audit services, and EY marked plans to up its use of robotics and automation in its tax business....

  2. NAB finds 84% of clients don’t want time-based billing

    — that should be the focus,” said investment analyst at Duxton Asset Management, Lauren Thiel. At the time of interview last year, she was a senior consultant at KPMG Australia. “If we provide people the opportunity to integrate family life with work...

  3. Planners mirror accountants in education fight

    age of a financial planner being in the mid to late 50s,” said partner at Fortis Accounting Partners, John Kalachian late last month. “In general, a lot of people will go out of the industry because of it but in saying that, there are opportunities...

  4. ‘Stop bashing accountants,’ ATO told after commissioner’s smackdown

    Often on a national stage, Mr Jordan has made broad and aggressive comments about dodgy tax agents, including some late last month where he questioned the status of tax agents as “guardians of the system.” For accountants like Timothy Munro, founder at...

  5. Federal government locks horns with opposition over ‘botched’ GST changes

    the Tax Institute spotted an apparent oversight in the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan) Act 2017, which passed last year. The changes allow small businesses with an aggregated turnover of up to $10 million the ability to account for GST on...

  6. Tax Institute pulls apart government's GST position

    the Tax Institute spotted an apparent oversight in the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan) Act 2017, which passed last year. The amendment meant that under Section 29-40 of the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999 (GST Act),...

  7. ‘Most hated tax’: Treasury’s payroll tax positions knocked

    the results do not match up to public feedback received during its Small Business White Paper roadshows across Australia last year. “When we asked business owners what the most hated tax was, payroll tax, by far, comes up as the number one,” said Mr...

  8. ATO systems backfire again on bookkeepers

    house to the new, they may not have made those monthly contributions into the employee’s superannuation fund. “As of our last meeting on Tuesday with the ATO, they were in talks with the Fair Work Ombudsman to ensure that they would provide reassurance...

  9. ‘We can’t believe the government is doing this’: Mid-tier up in arms over bankruptcy reform

    discharge from bankruptcy after one year, look set to be passed despite grave concerns from the industry and its regulators. Last month, the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee looked at 20 submissions on the Bankruptcy...

  10. CA ANZ set for 15% staff cuts by 2019

    to the CA Program timetable which put an end to lengthy waits to complete their final capstone course. CA ANZ confirmed last week that the education board has endorsed this change, and it is up for final approval in early May. CA ANZ is confident that...

  11. 'Tax cuts are almost a certainty': balanced budget set to feature

    be offset by the tightening of measures such as the taxation of stapled structures — a measure Mr Morrison announced late last month. The new measures, which will take effect on 1 July 2019, has broad ranging applications and Mr Kanagaratnam is hoping...

  12. Aged care policy changes tipped in budget

    reviews done in recent times. Aged Care Steps director Louise Biti said there were seven major reviews done on aged care last year, and there are still some reviews in process this year. “The government is yet to release any policies from any of those...

  13. CA ANZ reveals further details on restructure

    input into its strategic review — a review which resulted in a restructuring announcement made by chief executive Rick Ellis last week. As part of the restructure, CA ANZ staff have been informed that 10 per cent of jobs will go by 30 June this year and...

  14. Advisers brace for 'relaunch' of R&D tax incentive

    with research organisations and universities — there will be additional benefits undertaking R&D with those bodies. “And the last one is better administration — this is something the adviser body group has been asking for quite a while and claimants...

  15. Meaningful tax reform in high demand, says mid-tier

    call for a return to the Tax Reform process that has floundered in recent years,” Mr Cunningham told Accountants Daily last month. “The so called ‘root and branch’ tax reform process, that was ignited by Ken Henry’s 2010 Australia’s future tax system...

  16. Board composition, remuneration to be voted on at CPA AGM

    governance principles. The resolution also seeks to increase the president’s maximum term from two years to three years. The last special resolution that is recommended by the board includes a change to director remuneration so that the total...

  17. Increased penalties ‘still low’, says CPA

    misconduct may not be sufficient, especially in light of the revelations of the royal commission, says one accounting body. Last week, the government announced plans to increase penalties for the most serious criminal offences under the Corporations Act...

  18. CPA members push for removal of president

    relating to the governance, strategy or other membership matters. Member Brett Stevenson, who triggered the member rebellion last year, has also proposed to limit directors’ tenure to two terms of three years, with the maximum consecutive period that a...

  19. 1 in 5 accounting firms still at risk, survey shows

    surveyed, 19.4 per cent were found to be in the moderate to severe risk bands. The results are a slight improvement from last year’s survey, which found 19.8 per cent of firms at risk. Firms were analysed over a number of factors to frame a risk score,...

  20. Accounting body questions role of ASIC

    it may explain why ASIC sought a proposed one-off fee increase … for new auditors of SMSFs, which we argued was exorbitant.” Last month, the IPA questioned ASIC’s proposed fee hike for SMSF auditors, who now face a one-off $1,927 registration fee. While...

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