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  1. Practical advice can help clients navigate uncertainty

    Difficult decisions Just when the worst appear to be over, COVD once again brought parts of Australia to a halt. “I thought last year was hard, but this year is harder,” says Hima. “No-one knows how long this outbreak will last, and clients who worked...

  2. PowerUp: The first-ever XPM user conference is happening in Adelaide

    workflows — how jobs move through the system, how teams stay aligned, and what they’ve learned from building systems that last. See where XPM fits into the broader tech stack, how firms are reducing manual work, and why some changes have made all the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Account Kit
    • Category: Business
  3. Power to name and shame late payers is excessive, biased: Ai Group

    forms of legislation,” it said. The government has pursued the reforms following a review of the Payment Times Reporting Act last year which found the regime was “impenetrable” and “poorly functioning”. Small business advocates believe the long-awaited...

  4. Post-Trump corporate tax rate debate ‘misrepresented’

    between the level and allocation of cross-border investments and the corporate tax rate,” Mr Leonard told Accountants Daily last month. “Attracting foreign direct investment is the primary goal of many who advocate reductions in statutory company tax...

  5. Post-JobKeeper support to be announced ‘within days’

    at other measures. “We’re still finalising those details, but it’s a matter of days.” The announcement follows an appeal last month to the federal government from the Australian Tourism Industry Council (ATIC), Australia’s peak tourism industry body,...

  6. Post-JobKeeper jitters hitting small-business owners: Survey

    expectation that JobKeeper will extend beyond the end of March. It was always a temporary program,” Mr Frydenberg said late last month. “More than $80 billion is already out the door, and it’s helped to support more than 3.5 million Australians.”...

  7. Post-budget reflections

    Plan. Stage 2 was originally legislated to apply from 1 July 2022 which would have subsumed the limited life LMITO. However, last year’s budget brought forward Stage 2 by two years and unexpectedly extended the LMITO by 12 months to 2020–21. The LMITO’s...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Robyn Jacobson, The Tax Institute
    • Category: Business
  8. Possible gaps and pain points for accountants ahead of the AML/CTF reforms

    newsletter to keep up to date on new and emerging risks in Australia, and in their particular sector,” she advised. Last week, Accountants Daily spoke with Grant Thornton partner Neil Jeans about how accounting practices about building an effective AML...

  9. Positive findings in review of SMEs' FY17/18 outlook

    to invest savings from the reduced company tax rate back into their business according to research from a software provider. Last week MYOB released its latest SME Snapshot which revealed that 63 per cent of small business owners are positive about the...

  10. Portals continue shaky run into tax time

    is a priority for the ATO ahead of tax time this year, and this combined with the widespread system failure in December last year has seen the delay of its new service for tax professionals, ATO Online. “All IT projects under development to improve tax...

  11. Popular tax deductions scrapped for property investors

    Clients with negative gearing arrangements in place are set to lose out on a popular deduction following last night’s federal budget. From 1 July 2017, the government plans to “improve the integrity of negative gearing” by disallowing deductions for...

  12. Popular property strategy hits tough times

    billion, of new home loan approvals, according to the latest data from APRA. This represents a 54.9 per cent dive in the last quarter. Interest-only loans are often encouraged as a way to maximise cash flow when building a property portfolio, as opposed...

  13. Popular deduction set for rate rise

    cents per kilometre deduction rate for motor vehicle expenses to 72 cents for the income year starting 1 July 2020. The rate last changed in 2018, which saw the rate rise to 68 cents. The cents per kilometre method currently allows taxpayers to claim up...

  14. Popular deduction in ATO’s firing line after 20% spike

    to quash "automatic entitlement" claims. According to the tax office, clothing claims have risen by 20 per cent over the last five years, with 6 million people claiming nearly $1.8 billion in laundry expenses last year. “While many of these claims will...

  15. Popular $20k tax break fails to move needle on SME cost pressures

    businesses, but one in two respondents want more support. The instant asset write-off scheme was the most popular measure in last year’s budget but small businesses say the government needs to do more to ease costs this year, according to a recent...

  16. Poor financial management costing SMEs 'big bucks'

    Research has revealed that around 10 per cent of SMEs lost money last year as a result of poor financial management. Many businesses make entirely avoidable mistakes that cost them "big bucks", according to Clive Barrett, executive chairman of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Tax
  17. Poll hints at adviser exodus, accountants urged to pounce

    advice to retail consumers is covered by this new legislation,” said Mr Marshan. FASEA’s education guidance released last December proposes that an AQF7 qualification, which is equivalent to a three-year full-time university degree, or an AQF8...

  18. Poll finds 90% of accountants’ clients not ready for STP

    said their clients were ready for the shift to STP. Out of 290 voters, 261 (90.6 per cent) said they were not prepared. Last month, the government confirmed the introduction of STP for businesses with less than 20 employees from 1 July 2019, as part of...

  19. Politics obstructing GST reform

    winning elections to undertake long-term reforms such as a rethinking of the GST. “Tax reform hasn’t got very far over the last 10 years because it’s caught up in the political cycle,” he said. Mr Greco suggested handing the responsibility of tax reform...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Regulation
  20. Politics hits CFO confidence: Deloitte

    Uncertainty around federal government policy has dented CFO confidence, according to Deloitte’s most recent CFO survey. For the fourth straight quarter, optimistic CFOs outnumber their pessimistic peers, however, the net percentage of CFOs who were...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Business