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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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,...

  5. 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...

  6. 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,...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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....

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. Software giant brings global franchise program to Australia

    launched its Franchise Program in Australia yesterday, following its establishment in the US in 2008 and launch in Canada last year. According to Intuit, Australia has more franchising outlets per capita than any country in the world, and there are...

  14. Major bank shakes up SME loans approach

    Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell’s small business loans inquiry recommended these moves for Australian banks in December last year, for implementation by July 2017. It followed unfair contract terms legislation coming into force last November. “The...

  15. Tech survey reveals accountants’ gripes, ‘dramatic’ shifts

    across Australia - are now mostly operating on Windows 2010, 2013 and 2016. Use of Microsoft Office 365 has doubled in the last 12 months. “Unfortuntately for me, Google Apps is still not getting very far,” founding director of Smithink and ATSA, David...

  16. Big 4 reveals tax functions findings for Aussie firms

    The survey also found that 68 per cent of tax function effort was still taken up by compliance, a level unchanged since EY’s last study in 2014. More than a quarter spent half their time getting data ‘fit for purpose’ and only 27 per cent were satisfied...

  17. ‘Back the right horse’ as niche products boom, accountants told

    finding. In the 40-odd years that Smithink's founding director David Smith has been in the accounting industry, he says the last 10 have seen some of the most significant movements in terms of technology development, and in the attitude of accountants...

  18. Generational barriers persist in clients’ push to freelancers

    in comparison to 40 per cent of business owners over 40. About 89 per cent of SMEs that had used a freelancer in the last six months said they are likely to hire a freelancer again, with younger business owners 34 per cent more likely than their...

  19. Firms in the dark on salaries, faltering on staff incentives

    per cent of SMEs don't have any strategies for staff attraction, retention or motivation, which has fallen 4 per cent since last year. Twenty per cent of SMEs reported not knowing how their wages compared to average industry wages, and less than half...

  20. New reporting regime tipped to expose old accounting habits

    with accountants on a daily basis, revealing certain habits that may be detrimental when the new reporting regime kicks in. Last week, the ATO announced that from 1 July 2018, SMSFs that have members with total superannuation account balances of $1...

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