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  1. ‘How will the ATO possibly know?’: Tax Office cracks the whip on crypto transactions

    as the Tax Office acts on the “fruit of its labour”. The ATO’s cryptocurrency data-matching program, announced in May last year, has now resulted in an undisclosed number of letters being sent out to taxpayers, warning them to come clean with their...

  2. Mid-tier champions ‘raw, confronting’ client feedback program

    Tilse, director of Melbourne-based consultancy Client Culture, who has been running the NPS program at HLB Mann Judd for the last three years, believes the methodology assists with not only managing the client relationship, but also helping inform the...

  3. ‘Accountants, this is our time to shine’

    put all tax withholdings, super payments into that and that’s an emergency fund that your client dips into if it’s just last chance and you run out of everything. “There’s no point making payments to the ATO if they would have given you payment...

  4. ATO unveils new communications preferences function

    essentially undoes the myGov problem.” Agent concerns over myGov communication visibility have spiked over the last year as up to 4 million taxpayers were expected to sign up to myGov following the introduction of the Single Touch Payroll regime, making...

  5. Tasmania reveals COVID-19 support package

    Premier Peter Gutwein has now announced a $420 million support package that will include the waiving of payroll tax for the last four months of this financial year for hospitality, tourism and seafood industry businesses. Small to medium businesses with...

  6. Reserve Bank makes emergency move

    be announced until 7 April, but the coronavirus pandemic prompted the Reserve Bank board to hold an emergency meeting. The last time the Reserve Bank moved to cut rates out of cycle was in 1997. As at COB 18 March 2020, the ASX 30 Day Interbank Cash...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Grace Ormsby
    • Category: Business
  7. Consider sole traders and contractors, says ASBFEO

    written to the Prime Minister to call for support for the nation’s 1.4 million sole traders during the coronavirus downturn. Last week, the federal government announced a fiscal stimulus package aimed at supporting the Australian economy in the downturn...

  8. RBA, government splash $105bn in SME funding

    reduction of 100 bps on all business loans linked to the cash rate. This is in addition to a range of measures announced last week which are available for businesses facing difficulty, including waiving merchant fees, waiving redraw fees, waiving early...

  9. Universities switch focus in employability bid

    employers telling us that they need, what skills and technical knowledge do they need,” Professor Helliar said. “Over the last decade, we have focused a lot more on the skills side rather than the technical accounting side. Most students do a lot of...

  10. Ethics to be ‘well and truly tested’ amid COVID-19 pandemic, says Deloitte

    Australia and New Zealand bribery and corruption survey leaves no doubt that Australia’s reputation has slipped over the last two years.” Mr May noted that, since many of the respondents were from Australia and New Zealand and operated supply chains...

  11. Clarifying ‘arm’s length’ crucial in COVID-19 rent relief

    of COVID-19, as long as the trustees can demonstrate the arrangement is on arm’s-length commercial terms. However, since the last global pandemic was the Spanish flu back in 1918, Mr Burgess said there is no modern-day precedent or a complete set of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Adrian Flores
    • Category: Super
  12. How accountants are adapting to remote working

    Mr Munro said. “We’ve found that it has been something that recently has been very well taken up, and with COVID-19 to last, I suppose, two months… tools like Zoom [have] been working beautifully.” He believes firms that are struggling to adopt new...

  13. ‘Surviving COVID-19: The Defining Moment for Accountants’

    This current crisis is proving to be very painful for many people, at both a personal and business level, but it will not last forever. Australia has endured all sorts of crises in its past. Each time, this nation has emerged and gone on to become...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Peter Towers
    • Category: Business
  14. Franking credits ‘on the table’ to fund stimulus, says Geoff Wilson

    in terms of how this is going to be funded.” Mr Wilson, who led a campaign against Labor’s franking credit proposal at the last federal election, said franking credits remained a logical system by encouraging “companies to pay tax in Australia, employ...

  15. Why swift action to flatten the COVID-19 ‘insolvency curve’ is vital

    we’ll see a proliferation of businesses failing completely or experiencing dire financial difficulties. Indeed, during the last GFC, the busiest insolvency period occurred some 12 to 18 months after the initial shock, when banks began to enforce...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Sule Arnautovic, Jirsch Sutherland
    • Category: Business
  16. Coronavirus scams on the rise, says ACSC

    phishing emails seeking to take advantage of the uncertainty around the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. According to the ACSC, the last three months have seen a significant increase in the number of individuals and businesses reporting scams and phishing...

  17. ATO adopts ‘strict line’ on PAYG withholding deferrals

    the ATO’s concession generally applies to large withholders — or those that withheld more than $1 million in tax in the last financial year — Mr Kanagaratnam believes advisers should not be afraid to approach the ATO should the situation call for it....

  18. PwC slashes pay, hours by up to 40%

    support our clients as the economy powers back up.” Mr Seymour did not specify how long the new working arrangements would last, but he said the goal was to return to usual conditions “as soon as possible”. While the change follows a drop in client...

  19. COVID-19: Business hibernation strategies

    While this strategy does not conserve cash in the short term, it does at least reduce the business’s liabilities. As a last resort, consider standing down staff or doing layoffs. Also consider whether you may still be able to access JobKeeper payments...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Manda Trautwein, William Buck
    • Category: Business
  20. NSW announces 25% land tax relief for commercial, residential landlords

    the land tax concession. The new package follows on the mandatory code of conduct announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week which set out rental waivers and deferrals for commercial tenancies. NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the new...