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  1. Ascendant mid-tiers boost partner ranks as big 4 scale back

    as middle market adviser of choice”. RSM set a goal of having 1,750 staff in 2024. A raft of appointments at the end of last year took total numbers to over 1,800 by November. O’Rourke also commended 18 of the 22 appointments being internal promotions –...

  2. Federal Court hears ATO’s appeal of landmark Bendel decision

    doubt on how it treated unpaid trust entitlements for the past decade. A full bench of the Federal Court heard arguments last week in the Tax Office’s highly anticipated appeal of the Bendel ruling that threw more than a decade of edicts on the...

  3. SME owners ‘fearful’ about not being paid, says ASBFEO

    area of concern for small and family businesses and now accounts for 42 per cent of assistance cases, up from 36 per cent last year.” An annual summary of assistance provided to small and family businesses by ASBFEO showed there were 6,254 help requests...

  4. RBA's decision to keep rates on hold 'commendable' says BDO

    uncomfortably high. “The RBA seems to favour making its moves late in the game,” Shivadekar said. “It was one of the last central banks to start hiking rates post-pandemic, and now appears likely to be among the last to begin easing. “While the RBA will...

  5. Controversial ‘Airbnb tax’ set to become law

    as Airbnb and Stayz will apply in Victoria from next year after the state parliament passed the controversial legislation last week. The Australian-first Short Stay Levy Bill 2024 passed with 21 votes to 15 and will begin on 1 January 2025. It was...

  6. Instant asset write-off crucial for SMEs, says ACCI

    write-off budget measure in this fortnight's sitting. The business network noted the measure was originally announced in last year’s budget for the 2024–25 financial year before it was withdrawn from the Senate without warning. ACCI CEO Andrew McKellar...

  7. Inspector-General of Taxation welcomes grant of additional powers

    of Taxation and Tax Ombudsman has been granted new powers as part of the government’s response to the Robodebt scheme. Last Wednesday, the government granted the Inspector-General of Taxation and Tax Ombudsman (IGTO) new powers in response to the Royal...

  8. International student caps to worsen accountant shortage, joint bodies warn

    settings to erode living standards, overburden our infrastructure and exacerbate housing shortages in our communities.” Last year, Labor tried to give the education minister powers to cap international student enrolments depending on the education...

  9. Super tax will haunt government: Spender

    legislation since its inception two years ago and led the charge of opposition in the Lower House during the government’s last term of office. “I think this is bad for Labor. The ability to run scare campaigns on taxation of unrealised gains means if...

  10. ATO monitoring advice fee deductions, FAAA cautions

    It also highlighted the importance of maintaining adequate records in case the ATO reviews these deductions later on. Last month, the major accounting bodies and the FAAA released a guide for the financial planning and accounting communities containing...

  11. TPB reports over 1k whistleblower reports under new regime

    about the number of whistleblower reports it has received since changes to the whistleblower laws came into effect on 1 July last year. Since 1 July 2024 Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has been able to receive disclosures of information from eligible...

  12. BDO Canberra adds 2 partners amid board meeting preparation

    for Canberra. David Fagan, BDO chair and non-executive director, said the firm’s decision to expand into Canberra last year added to the public sector practice which equated to around 20 per cent of the firm’s revenue in Australia. “We have demonstrable...

  13. Div 296 unlikely to enter parliament in first sitting fortnight

    any possibility of the bill re-entering parliament during July, pushing the earliest date for its introduction to the last week of August. Speaking to the ABC on Monday night, Finance Minister Katy Gallagher said there were still discussions underway to...

  14. 1 in 2 Aussies use professional services providers, with accountants leading the way

    the highest rate of engagement out of the professional services, serving one in four consumers (26 per cent) over the last 12 months, Agile found. It noted: “This level of market penetration more than doubles the engagement rate of financial advisers at...

  15. The untapped strategic advantage of ethical culture for accountants, auditors

    must embrace an ethical culture as a strategic advantage and discouraged practitioners from having a compliance mindset. Last week, at the Ethics & Independence Conference, hosted by the International Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants, the...

  16. Payday super part 2: not quite ‘all systems go’

    series that shares the author’s insights on the new Payday Super (PDS) law and implementation of the reforms. Part 1 last week highlighted the problem PDS is designed to solve, recapped the current law, and explained the operation of the new law. In...

  17. ‘Confidence gap’ costing Australians money at tax time: H&R Block

    found that Australians were using a shortcut approach to their tax returns, as almost half spent one hour or less on their last return. More than a third took a shortcut approach to work-related deductions, including using fixed rates, repeating last...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Matthew Taylor
    • Category: Tax

  18. Opposition slams 'dirty' tax deal between Greens and Labor

    base indexation and introduces a minimum 30 per cent tax on capital gains with certain exemptions. Speaking in Parliament last night, Senator Slade Brockman labeled the CGT reforms "a retrograde step" for Australia's taxation system that would generate...

  19. Xero boss sells down stocks, announces ‘opt-out’ package for underperforming staff

    Financial Review, this $2.2 million sell-out caused the company’s share prices to plummet 4.4 per cent on 13 June 2026. Last month, Xero announced an Opt Out Program, targeting employees rated as either Below Expectation, or Moderate in two consecutive...

  20. CA ANZ seeks legal advice on limited waiver applying to KPMG investigation reports

    claim to CA ANZ, and that any such claim to CA ANZ would be inappropriate. In a response sent to the Committee late last week, CA ANZ said that on 11 June, the Professional Conduct Committee of CA ANZ requested from KPMG copies of the correspondence and...

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