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  1. Big four pleased with key state law amendment

    with the other states’ landholder and corporate reconstruction and consolidation laws. Speaking at the Tax Institute forum last week, PwC partner Rachael Cullen discussed several recent legislative changes, including the Tasmanian Duties Amendment...

  2. ATO deputy commissioner resigns

    granted. This follows an eight-month joint investigation between the AFP and the ATO which resulted in multiple arrests last month relating to a syndicate responsible for a $165 million tax fraud against the Australian government. One of the arrested...

  3. Fight against new property tax laws taken to govt

    in past years. “If you are an investor and you haven't done your tax depreciation properly, you can actually... amend the last two years of your tax return and go back and ask for some money from the tax office,” he said. “Coming up to tax time, you're...

  4. $20K instant asset write-off extension locked in

    a tax return till sometime after the end of the financial year so it’s very advantageous to take advantage of it in the last couple of weeks of this financial year.” The upfront tax deduction for SMEs with an annual turnover of less than $10 million was...

  5. Breaking down a new lending landscape

    managing director and CEO of The Invoice Market. “The reason that alternative lending has really come to the fore over the last three, four, five years is because of the difficulty traditionally that small business, and even medium-sized businesses have...

  6. Fee-for-service financial advice model criticised

    operating on a fee-for-service only model, saying there is a major difference between advice and accounting businesses. Last week, the Accounting Professional & Ethical Standards Board (APESB) closed submissions to its consultation paper on the post...

  7. ATO clarifies contentious business definition

    tax rate reduction. The ATO’s interpretation of whether a company is carrying on a business or a not came into the limelight last week with confusion over whether the corporate tax rate cuts will apply to passive investment companies. The Minister for...

  8. ‘Sleeping giant’ accounting bodies told to play catch up

    revealed that the majority of accountants are unsatisfied with their professional association. Accountants Daily ran a poll last month asking readers if they are satisfied with their professional association. Of 761 respondents, 76.8 per cent said no...

  9. In-house accountant charged in underpayment case

    Work Ombudsman. A joint investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection last year has resulted in restaurant owner Ye Shao and accountant Yizhu “Jessica” Ding being charged for allegedly underpaying...

  10. EXCLUSIVE: Xenophon set to escalate ATO downtime fight

    that inquiry delves into the effects and impact of outages on taxpayers and tax practitioners,” he said. State of play Late last year, the ATO committed to replacing the tax agent portal and improving the general experience of accounting professionals...

  11. Trusts and the tale of three households

    about inequality? The dependent spouse tax offset was designed to mitigate this, but it has been scaled right back over the last decade. The last attempt of trying to equalise the tax burden across households is the family trust. Prudent tax planning...

  12. ATO expects ‘attrition’ as offices shift, funding cut looms

    the 600 new jobs on offer in its new Gosford office, while also facing nearly $30 million in cuts from government funding. Last week, the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer, and the federal member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks,...

  13. Software provider admits cloud accounting space ‘quite saturated’

    management division, which Mr Allert said has allowed them to focus more on the accounting software division. Further, last week 7.97 million Reckon shares were traded at $1.45 a share, which represents a 7 per cent stake of the software provider...

  14. Commissioner tips ‘record-breaking year’ for lodgements

    As of yesterday, the ATO said it has received just shy of five million returns, which is up 360,000 compared to this time last year. About three million of these lodgements came from tax agents, which is up by about 2 per cent from 2016. By comparison,...

  15. Opportunity for accountants as SMEs struggle with efficiency

    face. The survey found that 82 per cent of Australian SMEs believe they are operating cost effectively, up from 76 per cent last year. However, in the past 12 months, 51 per cent of businesses surveyed said they had implemented cost efficiency...

  16. CPA defends ‘extremely effective’ marketing strategy

    (AGM) in June, the board indicated membership gains in key focus markets, including 20 per cent growth in Asia in the last three years. The board also said expenditure on marketing, promotion and publications as a proportion of revenue remained...

  17. Bookkeepers named in network’s national acquisition campaign

    Block confirmed to The Bookkeeper it has set its broad fee acquisition target at $2 million for this financial year. In the last three years, H&R Block has acquired 10 independent practices, totalling about $3 million in fees. Firms with bookkeeping...

  18. CPA review finds misdirection of funds, calls to freeze president's pay

    is at odds with public messaging from CPA Australia, both during and after the reign of Mr Malley. At a Senate hearing last week, both president Jim Dickson and director Graeme Wade, repeatedly rejected suggestions that the licensing arm is a failure....

  19. New mid-tier director tips M&A spike

    the firms’ corporate and mid-market M&A business as activity begins to increase, and is eyeing growth this financial year. Last week, RSM announced the appointment of Justin Audcent as a director in its Western Australia corporate finance team. Mr...

  20. Accounting exec finds clients spooked by govt tinkering

    dust settle” on changes to retirement savings vehicles, particularly super, noting confidence has taken a hit following the last two federal budgets. Cooper Partners director Jemma Sanderson, who won the SMSF Adviser of the Year at the inaugural Women...

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