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  1. Over half of SMSF directors yet to apply for director ID

    a director, and you’ll need to apply for your director ID,” said Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones. “Don’t leave it to the last minute — if you’re a company director, you must apply by 30 November — so make sure you make time to get it done.”

  2. Over half of accounting firms to raise fees for services: Ignition

    and tax planning, you need to charge appropriately. “For BAS, it appears the overall pricing hasn't moved a lot in the last decade. I would have expected a greater percentage of firms charging more than $250.” Ignition’s APAC managing director, Dave...

  3. Over a hundred auditor registrations cancelled

    after they failed to lodge their outstanding annual statements. In a public communication, ASIC said that in November last year, it sent a final warning to 404 approved SMSF auditors with outstanding annual statements, alerting them that their...

  4. Over 500 limited licence applications still in limbo

    have now been granted, many of which are draft licences, ASIC commissioner Greg Tanzer told the CPA National SMSF Conference last week. “A significant number, nearly 284, have been withdrawn and returned to applicants, because they were incomplete,...

  5. Over 50,000 SMSFs contacted in late-lodgment crackdown

    she said. Earlier this year, ATO assistant commissioner Dana Fleming said following the ATO’s non-lodgement program last year, there has been a reduction in the number of non-lodgers across the SMSF population, with the number of overdue lodgers...

  6. Over 2m Aussies asked the TPB for help during the last year

    to rely on Australia’s Tax Practitioners Board (TPB). According to the latest report by the regulator, the challenges of the last 12 months only brought tax practitioners and taxpayers closer together. “As Australia and the world continued to grapple...

  7. Over 100 SMSFs to be investigated in auditor number crackdown

    cases practitioners or trustees have deliberately recorded an auditor’s number when that individual was not their auditor. Last year, the ATO also made a number of referrals to the Tax Practitioners Board after it was found they had lodged annual...

  8. Over 10% rise in dodgy tax agent tip-offs

    200 tip-offs about potentially dodgy behaviour on the part of accountants and other tax agents were reported by taxpayers last financial year, the ATO has revealed. Last Friday, the Tax Office revealed that a one-year prison sentence had been given to a...

  9. Over $53m worth of tax time errors detected so far

    or by taxpayers themselves, with over $11.9 billion in refunds processed, $270 million more compared to the same time period last year. However, according to ATO commissioner Kath Anderson, the tax office had to correct more than 112,000 tax returns,...

  10. Outsourcing contributing to poorer ATO phone service delivery, union says

    tax agents in this review. Agents are reporting an increasingly poor experience with the ATO’s agent phone line over the last two years, citing inconsistent advice and a lack of suitably skilled staff. This is contributing to a general feeling of not...

  11. Outraged CA ANZ member plans AGM assault on board

    are believed to have been sent letters by the body raising sections of its professional code which they did not comply with. Last week just eight unnamed members were sanctioned and in response to criticism CA ANZ issued a statement in defence, reported...

  12. Outdated views of finance deterring women: WGEA

    succession planning, training and development, and resignations. “The levers that we need to pull haven’t altered over the last 15 years. We know what we need to do. It’s about how we’re going to do it,” Dr McCurdy concluded. To hear more from Dr Samone...

  13. Oracle NetSuite announces partnership with mid-tier firm

    accounting firm as part of its business process outsourcing (BPO) partner program launched across Australia and New Zealand last year. NetSuite on Tuesday announced the expansion of its BPO partner program to include a partnership with mid-tier business...

  14. Optus hack puts all Australia on alert, accountants in front line

    far beyond the people directly compromised, cyber security specialist says. The huge hack into Optus customer details late last week will affect everyone in Australia and puts accountants in the front line of fraud prevention, says one cyber security...

  15. 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...

  16. Opposition attacks govt over super tax policy

    taxes for the wealthy, declaring current tax concessions for superannuation earnings in retirement unsustainable. Late last month, federal opposition leader Bill Shorten outlined Labor’s tax policy for superannuation if the party is elected to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Katarina Taurian
    • Category: Tax
  17. 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...

  18. Opportunity for accountants as financial advisers reach ‘distrusted’ rating

    opportunities to accountants giving advice. The 2018 Financial Advice report by Investment Trends has revealed that over the last 12 months, trust levels have fallen most severely for banks and financial planners to below five out of 10, and into the...

  19. Opportunities in the corporate bond market

    bonds with a fixed coupon. Floating rate bonds are bonds that deal as a margin to the bank bill swap rate (BBSW), and the last bond is the inflation-linked bond where the performance of the bond is linked to the quoted inflation number. There are other...

  20. Opportunities for Australian businesses in Asia

    of M&A transactions globally reached AU$1.83 trillion in the first half of 2014, an increase of 41 per cent on the same time last year. Appetite for domestic M&A is also increasing with Clayton Utz declaring in its Improved Levels of M&A Activity 2014...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business