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  1. ‘One of the best courses’: Accountants mental health training launches

    sung high praises of the initiative, labelling it as one of the best courses she has completed. “Just coming off the back of last year, the level of content was spot-on and very timely,” Ms Lawrance told Accountants Daily. “There was a lot of value in...

  2. Tax administration lessons learnt from COVID-19 (and promptly forgotten)

    family dealings. A draft tax ruling exists, but few have seen it. The commissioner delayed the release of draft ruling last year, ostensibly because of COVID-19. Meanwhile, some of these section 100A audits are now entering their third year. The anxiety...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: David Hughes, McCullough Robertson Lawyers
    • Category: Tax

  3. Businesses can’t force staff to be vaccinated: Fair Work

    employees to be vaccinated,” Christian Porter, Attorney-General and Minister for Industrial Relations, said in a statement last week. “As the Prime Minister has said many times, the government expects that the overwhelming majority of Australians will...

  4. SMSF accounting and audit firms handed fresh resource on independence changes

    choose between non-assurance services including tax and compliance advice, and audit services. While the changes kicked in last year, the ATO has committed to adopting an educative approach during the current financial year to allow firms to restructure...

  5. CountPlus sees profits jump following recent acquisitions

    he said. CountPlus will pay a fully franked dividend of 1.25 cents per share at 1H2021, consistent with the same period last year.

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Jotham Lian
    • Category: Business

  6. Receipt Bank announces global rebrand

    Xavier, a tool that detects errors and anomalies in business data within accounting software, was acquired by Receipt Bank last year. Dext chief executive Adrian Blair said the new identity comes after the company added 250,000 users over the past 12...

  7. Illegal early access to super scheme sees financial adviser charged

    20 years in prison for operating an illegal early access to superannuation scheme. Fronting the Victorian Magistrates’ Court last week, Ahmed Saad, a Glenroy financial adviser, was charged with two counts of deception following an ASIC investigation and...

  8. Firms to ‘strongly encourage’ staff to get jabbed

    with all relevant information.” Businesses were advised by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) and Safe Work Australia (SWA) last week to assume that employee vaccinations aren’t required, and that mandating them could expose businesses to charges under...

  9. Partner profits reach record highs in 2020

    a result of payment refusal and invoicing errors. Lock-up days remained stable at 76 days, consistent with previous years. Last year also saw increased investment in technology; in part, to facilitate remote working, according to the report, but also to...

  10. Could e-invoicing lead to an ATO automated BAS?

    e-invoicing could soon take on a tax compliance role in the future. Tax Office commissioner Chris Jordan notably flagged last year that the ATO could soon be automating business activity statements (BAS) by tapping into a business’s natural systems,...

  11. Mid-tier appoints new director

    A PKF veteran has been elevated to expand his ownership into the firm’s business advisory team in Sydney and Newcastle. PKF last week announced the promotion of business advisory expert Chad Russell to director of the firm’s business advisory team in...

  12. Government backs off from new aged care tax

    tax as calls to abandon the royal commission’s recommendation widen. The aged care royal commission final report released last Monday had called for a new levy to fund an overhaul of the beleaguered sector, with both commissioners presenting cases for a...

  13. Post-JobKeeper support to be announced ‘within days’

    at other measures. “We’re still finalising those details, but it’s a matter of days.” The announcement follows an appeal last month to the federal government from the Australian Tourism Industry Council (ATIC), Australia’s peak tourism industry body,...

  14. Get a head start on tax planning in 2021

    are grappling with a vastly changed operating environment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that unfolded this time last year. While this month marks the anniversary of mass change for the accounting industry, it’s also a moment to reflect on the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Intuit Quickbooks
    • Category: Tax

  15. Stay on top of BAS planning in 2021

    are grappling with a vastly changed operating environment as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that unfolded this time last year. While this month marks the anniversary of mass change for the accounting industry, it’s also a moment to reflect on the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Intuit QuickBooks
    • Category: Regulation

  16. ATO circles privately owned and wealthy groups as audits heat up

    Ortner said the ATO will likely look to bide their time to collect revenue again in the coming months. “Certainly over the last 12 months, you all may have the experience that the ATO has deferred disputes in light of COVID,” he said. “So they are...

  17. ATO discriminates against professionals and medical practitioners

    doctors, financial planners and accountants are being targeted over how they manage their taxation affairs. The ATO last week released Draft Practical Compliance Guideline PCG 2021/D2 in relation to the allocation of profits for professional firms and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: David Montani, Nexia Australia
    • Category: Regulation

  18. False lodgement declarations see tax agent terminated

    numbers had been identified as an ongoing area of concern with the ATO and the TPB, with 74 tax practitioners singled out last year over such misuse. Instances where an SMSF annual return has been lodged prior to an audit being finalised is understood...

  19. SME loan scheme expansion only addresses symptoms: CPA Australia

    careers, there’s no longer-term objective here.” She believes the government should act on a recommendation put forward last year by the accounting, bookkeeping and small business bodies for a professional advice subsidy for small businesses. The...

  20. The quiet achievers that went beyond the books during COVID-19

    first lockdown. “You’ve got restaurants, cafés, market stalls, tourism operators, all completely shut down overnight… so the last thing you’re going to do is say, ‘Oh, here’s an engagement letter for coronavirus stuff’.” In July, at the halfway point of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: John Jeffreys, Tax & Super Australia
    • Category: Business
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