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  1. What the global digitisation story can teach us about STP

    governments have been paying attention. Following in a widespread global movement, STP is by no means the first (or the last) of its kind. Whether it’s Payday Filing in New Zealand, Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT in the UK or the global adoption of...

  2. What the EOFY will look like for accountants

    in balancing their workloads come tax time. Amanda also reflects on the extraordinary resilience of the profession over the last few months, the sorts of concerns raised by accountants throughout the coronavirus crisis, and the post-pandemic outlook for...

  3. What tax agents need to know right now by CPA Australia

    the end of July. More than half of these were lodged by self-preparers via myTax – a 34 per cent increase on the same time last year. Tax agent-prepared individual returns are also up by 6 per cent. Tax agents will be well aware that this year’s...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: CPA Australia
    • Category: Tax
  4. What Labor’s IR bill means for accountants

    an employer to be roped into a multi-employer agreement.” “One of the changes they got through the House of Representatives last week was that there now needs to be majority support at each employer to become part of a multi-employer agreement.” Mr...

  5. What is the future of the finance function?

    of auditors when blockchain technology is widely used? A third of the audit graduate intake of an Australian big four firm last year did not even have an accounting background. When machine learning takes over, the displaced human accountants must...

  6. What is most important to the modern accountant?

    sits at 24 per cent. On the brighter side, understanding of the gender pay gap rose by 13 per cent compared to CA’s findings last year. Gender was also a determining factor across non-remuneration priorities. Women showed a stronger interest in flexible...

  7. What does the Minerva case mean for trust distributions?

    top marginal rate, has been done to obtain the tax benefit? Very likely, yes. So, what stops Part IVA applying? It is the last element in the requirements — the Commissioner must decide to apply Part IVA — and this is why I don’t think accountants need...

  8. What can we expect after the last COVID-19 initiative is withdrawn?

    closures and job losses. However, the insolvency situation is no longer predicted to be the tsunami that was being discussed last year. While there is likely to be a noticeable uplift in insolvency numbers, these are expected to occur in stages...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Glenn Crisp, Jirsch Sutherland
    • Category: Business
  9. What BBlood Enterprises case means for s100A

    Last month’s court decision had more to say about “ordinary family or commercial dealings” in trust distributions. On 19 September 2022, the Federal Court handed down its decision in BBlood Enterprises Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2022] FCA...

  10. What are the keys to tech success?

    in technology adoption is “getting the most out of systems implemented”. This has remained the biggest challenge in the last three years of the survey. Here are firms reporting that they’ve made the investment in their technology but something has gone...

  11. What accounting looked like ten years ago - and how the industry is changing

    Five years on from the turn of the millennium, the industry had gotten over its last major change – the introduction of GST. With small businesses now required to produce quarterly BAS statements as well as their annual tax returns, they were beginning...

  12. What accountants should look out for in the budget

    Chalmers hands down the federal budget on 25 March, there will be a sea of commentary. And – as someone who has been in the last dozen media lockups – I can attest that the budget papers themselves will run into the thousands of pages. But there are...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Richard Holden, CAANZ
    • Category: Business
  13. What accountants and financial planners can learn from how medical teams collaborate

    involved. As a person with no medical qualifications, it was overwhelming and exhausting. Who knew what? When did we last see someone? What did that report say? How have things progressed over time? Once we had accumulated a sufficient number of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Sarah Pilling, myprosperity
    • Category: Business
  14. WFH 67c fixed rate ‘opaque and too demanding’

    method of 80c and the hybrid method rate of 52c, was the headline change among a raft of revisions in PCG 2022/D4 released last week. Also in the guidance were changes to substantiation requirements and a requirement for tighter record-keeping from next...

  15. Wexted opens Melbourne office, appoints new partner

    office. Wexted has announced the opening of a new office in Melbourne, following the launch of its Brisbane office just last month. Chris Sequeira has been appointed as partner and will lead the Wexted’s presence in the Victorian market. Sequeira has...

  16. Westpac to build on SMSF relations

    the investment administration side [as well as] all our strong relationships with advisers,” Mr Lawrenson said. In December last year, the first phase of the SMSF offering for BT Panorama was officially launched, enabling advisers, accountants and SMSF...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Katarina Taurian
    • Category: Super
  17. West coast challenges ‘new normal’, says mid-tier

    this is the case, Mr Gray believes that the economy in Western Australia has flattened out at the bottom of a cycle. “The last 12 months has a fairly strong showing that we're somewhere around the bottom and this is the new normal for us,” he said. “Ten...

  18. Weekend ATO outages hitting bookkeepers

    when they have the time to catch up, and having downtime on the weekend does create a lot of issues,” he said. As reported last week, government heavyweights are throwing their support behind the escalation of the ATO's digital downtime, In an effort to...

  19. Weaponising trust: When cyber criminals abuse cloud applications

    is not being spared cyber incidents and major data breaches. At least two incidents that occurred in Australia in the last 18 months should be on every financial professional’s mind, and are perfect examples that tight regulations do not shield...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Tony Burnside, Netskope
    • Category: Technology
  20. Wealthy clients in ATO's sights with reserves move

    towards anyone's transfer balance cap, or total super balance,” Ms Macfarlane told delegates at the SMSF Summit in Sydney last week. “From our perspective, it's too early to tell at this stage whether or not that is actually playing out in reality and...