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  1. Federal Court dismisses tax agent appeal

    a decision by the Federal Court to dismiss the appeal of a tax agent who was rejected from renewing his registration. Last week, Justice Logan of the Federal Court dismissed the appeal by Philip Ham, upholding the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)...

  2. ATO defends ‘front door’ program

    to interview certain trustees, to ensure the integrity of the sector is upheld. Speaking at the SMSF Summit in Melbourne last week, ATO assistant commissioner Dana Fleming said the agency’s “secure the front door” program, a compliance program used at...

  3. 40k funds to face compliance scrutiny for non-lodgment

    Dana Fleming said the Tax Office would be dealing with about 39,000 non-lodging SMSFs following its work with such funds last year. “I can’t emphasise how seriously we take the lodgment obligation to lodge an SMSF's return annually – this provides us...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Jotham Lian
    • Category: Super
  4. Revealed: Inside CA ANZ massive CPD, CA Program changes

    of workers, and flexible learning options are filtering into tertiary institutions. The active employment policy was changed last term, and is effective immediately. Ditching paper exams Digitising the CA Program’s learning experience is a key focus for...

  5. Tax agent rego suspended after $100k shortfall detected

    compliance work for the 2017-18 period resulted in a total number of 287 sanctions, including 24 terminations, up from 17 last year. According to the TPB’s annual report, the sanctions included 81 impositions of order and 182 written cautions. “The...

  6. What will your accounting tech stack look like in 2019?

    relook at accounting technology in 2018 to shape an idea of what you can expect to see in your technology stack this year. Last year brought us a range of new and exciting challenges, and also delivered more of the same. Perhaps you didn’t feel the...

  7. Errors in 9 out of 10 rental claims prompt new compliance blitz

    expenses, which has seen the average claim fall by $130 over the past two years – the first time it has fallen in the last 25 years. Mr Jordan expects the estimated revenue gain for that same period to be around $600 million. Last year, the Tax Office...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Jotham Lian
    • Category: Tax
  8. A Q&A with Stuart Brandman on his Cloud Accounting Evolution

    accountant relationship. Hi Stuart! Can you tell me more about you and your firm, 542 Partners? We’ve been in business for last six years. I am one of three directors, and we have 12 staff. All directors came from PKF. We saw it as a good opportunity to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Receipt Bank
    • Category: Business
  9. New guidelines issued on satisfactory tax records for tender bids

    for Commonwealth government contracts over $4 million will have to comply with, including a statement of tax record. Late last year, the government released a consultation seeking to introduce a new government procurement process that will exclude...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Jotham Lian
    • Category: Tax
  10. Planning to become a Chartered Accountant? These changes will impact you

    of workers, and flexible learning options are filtering into tertiary institutions. The active employment policy was changed last term, and is effective immediately. Ditching paper exams Digitising the CA Program’s learning experience is a key focus for...

  11. Why you should take extra caution with emails from your boss

    Accounting firms are legally obliged to prevent, manage and report threats of this nature, under laws which were passed last year. Under the Notifiable Data Breach Scheme, firms are required to notify the Office of the Australian Information...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Reporter
    • Category: Business
  12. Update clients’ financial institution details for unclaimed super: ATO

    details are updated this tax time. The ATO has since paid out over $120 million in lost and unclaimed super over the last six months to individuals, after recent legislation passed, seeing inactive low-balance super accounts transferred to the Tax...

  13. We need to talk some common sense about super

    to superannuation and doing business in Australia. Super debate overlooking societal and economic issues The debate over the last few months around increasing the superannuation guarantee and the superannuation amnesty is leaving a number of societal...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Brad Twentyman, Pitcher Partners
    • Category: Super
  14. Two-thirds of SMEs expect further economic decline; on-time payments to be ‘critical’

    optimistic about the timeline for recovery, with 36 per cent stating they expect the pandemic and its economic effects will last for six to 12 months, and another 26 per cent predicting recovery to take another year or two, possibly longer. MYOB chief...

  15. ATO pencils October start date for tax audits

    a parliamentary committee has heard. ATO second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn told a Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 last week that the Tax Office has refrained from initiating new audits since the pandemic hit, redeploying its auditors instead to...

  16. TPB highlights risky agent behaviour ahead of crackdown

    such practitioners. The joint compliance program has already seen a 25 per cent increase in referrals from the ATO over the last financial year. “Increasingly, our actions have become more coordinated with the ATO,” said Mr de Cure. “For example, the...

  17. PM implored to consider JobKeeper extension for aviation industry

    “our critical aviation industry remains intact and retains its highly trained, skilled workforce”. He stressed that the last 12 months had been extremely difficult for the sector, with some 11,000 workers lost due to redundancies, with a further 2,500...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Cameron Micallef
    • Category: Regulation
  18. NSW, WA governments announce new grants post-lockdown

    be available to small businesses in Sydney’s Northern Beaches that were affected by COVID-19 restrictions over Christmas last year. WA small businesses will also now have access to a $500 offset on their electricity bill under a new $43 million package...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Adrian Flores
    • Category: Business
  19. ATO to claw back $155m in JobKeeper overpayments

    be pursued for repayment. The new figures, revealed by ATO second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn at a parliamentary hearing last week, come as the total taxpayer bill for the wage subsidy program has risen to $83 billion since its introduction last...

  20. Government urged to get the ball rolling with Division 7A

    and tax bodies will reveal similar calls for the government to address the operation of Division 7A, following a decision last year to further defer the start date for proposed amendments to an income year on or after legislation receives royal assent....