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  1. Unregistered tax preparer fined $1.8m for record TASA breaches

    years, the largest number of violations ever prosecuted by the Tax Practitioners Board in the Federal Court. In a judgment last week, Justice Wendy Abraham also permanently banned Jayden Van Dyke from providing tax agent services without proper...

  2. Lawyer to stand trial for alleged money laundering scheme

    Papandrea have spent the years since fighting to have their money laundering charges tossed out. They lost that fight late last week when the ACT Magistrates Court found there was enough evidence to commit the case to trial. Magistrate Sean Richter was...

  3. Is it time to talk about quotas in financial services?

    cent, the second-largest gap among all the industries included in the report. According to government projections released last year, it will take another 26 years to close Australia’s national gender pay. The issue of quotas is complex and requires the...

  4. New CBA collaboration will enable 60-second cross-border payments

    enabled by harnessing Australia’s New Payments Platform (NPP) and the International Payments Service (IPS). This allows the last mile of BNY’s cross-border payments to Australia to be processed by CBA via the NPP. This process offers cost transparency,...

  5. Profession’s pyrrhic victory

    and felt the thrill of victory when the Assistant Treasurer, Stephen Jones MP, wrote to the accounting bodies at the end of last month and announced that the implementation of the Legislative Instrument, Tax Agent Services (Code of Professional Conduct)...

  6. Court decision offers clarity on varying trust deeds to remove an appointor

    of all persons nominated as Appointors pursuant to the terms of this Deed, by the legal personal representatives of the last to die. Where a corporation is the Appointor, the corporation may exercise or concur in exercising any of the powers or...

  7. APESB defers decision on CA ANZ request for new reporting

    by other members to the relevant professional body. CA ANZ made the request for the new reporting requirement in July last year following the completion of its Professional Conduct Framework Review. The accounting body said the APESB should consider the...

  8. Ex-PwC top lawyer proposes big 4 watchdog, defends partnership model

    of that meant that the privilege claims that had been made... were not valid,” she said. In her submission to Parliament last week, Beattie detailed several “cultural and behavioural problems which existed within sections of the firm’s international...

  9. Accountant sentenced to 7 years’ prison for theft charges

    Sportsbet gambling addiction. Former accounting manager Jason Richard Poser was sentenced in the District Court in Adelaide last week after pleading guilty to 34 counts of aggravated theft. Poser formerly held a senior role at SMSF specialist firm...

  10. ‘Disturbing’: Tax lawyers push back on proposal to register with TPB

    and regrettable” proposal that they register with the Tax Practitioners Board to provide tax advice. The consultation paper Last month, the Albanese government released a consultation paper reviewing the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) registration...

  11. BDO doubles Melbourne office to accommodate expanding team

    CBD and is centrally located with public transport links, including Parliament Station and tram stops. BDO also announced last month that it will be expanding its operations in Canberra after recording record growth in annual revenue. The firm aims to...

  12. $3m bill set for debate next Thursday

    “The bill is due for debate on Thursday, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it will be as we have seen, as there can be last-minute changes to the schedule,” Burgess said. He said he has arranged to meet with independent MP Allegra Spender and is...

  13. Mental health of SME owners in rapid decline, research reveals

    the mental wellbeing of SME owners that highlighted the stress the majority have experienced in the current economy. In the last 12 months, 52 per cent of business owners and senior managers have reported that their mental health has been impacted by...

  14. ATO SMSF auditor referrals see slight uptick for FY23–24

    undertaken on auditors who had been in reciprocal audit arrangements and auditors who hadn’t undertaken any audits in the last five years. Auditors who were at risk of not holding appropriate professional indemnity insurance or failed to complete the...

  15. ATO calls out tax advisers still making ‘basic’ errors

    enforcement action. The ATO’s private wealth adviser program is part of the Tax Avoidance Taskforce and was established last year to ensure advisory firms and individual advisers were meeting their own tax obligations. The program sees the ATO use a...

  16. ‘Significant progress’ made on TASA determination, joint bodies say

    the Assistant Treasurer will deliver on these piecemeal changes or backflip yet again,” he said. “With these embarrassing, last minute concessions it is now another deal with the Greens that has blown up in the Government’s face.” According to Howarth,...

  17. ATO boss tells agents to use ‘Kardashian-like influence’ wisely

    that “hasn’t always hit the mark”. The multi-step linking process became mandatory for all ABN holders in November last year and has been derided as “poorly implemented” and an “administrative nightmare” for taxpayers and agents. Practitioners and...

  18. Businesses to face $50m fines under new anti-scam laws

    the government’s $154 million anti-scam plan and follows the establishment of the National Anti-Scam Centre within the ACCC last year. Explanatory materials said a new, comprehensive framework was needed to address “piecemeal and inconsistent” scam...

  19. SMEs looking to increase asset investment, CBA data reveals

    economic conditions. CBA revealed a 15 per cent uplift in vehicle and equipment financing compared to the same period last year. CBA executive general manager of business lending Grant Cairns said though economic conditions remain tough, there is reason...

  20. Reprimand for lawyer who dodged 9 tax returns

    has put arrangements in place to prevent similar lapses from reoccurring and has been compliant with his obligations for the last five years. In response, the Legal Services Commissioner said QCAT should find his explanations “insufficient” and it was...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Naomi Neilson
    • Category: Tax