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  1. Wealth group sees surge in accountant enquiries

    an interest point for an accountant,” Mr Musgrave said. “We were initially focusing solely on mortgage brokers, but in the last couple of months we have been starting to move into the accounting profession,” he said. “We now have a number of accountants...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: James Mitchell
    • Category: Business
  2. Wealth firm hires from PwC, CBA

    firm has announced two key appointments, with the recruits coming from PwC and CBA. Koda Capital, which was established late last year by former CEO of JBWere, Paul Heath, and former CEO of MLC and NAB Wealth, Steve Tucker, has recruited Ben Andreou...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business
  3. We need to talk some common sense about super

    to superannuation and doing business in Australia. Super debate overlooking societal and economic issues The debate over the last few months around increasing the superannuation guarantee and the superannuation amnesty is leaving a number of societal...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Brad Twentyman, Pitcher Partners
    • Category: Super
  4. We could have done better with 100A, says ATO

    profession and is looking to address this in the final guidance. It follows clarifying comments from the ATO, welcomed late last week by the Assistant Treasurer, that the draft guidance would “not apply on a retrospective basis”. “Confirmation that...

  5. WCT Advisory poaches Bentleys team as insolvency work booms

    highest in the construction sector, with appointments surging 27 per cent in October to 1,627 compared to the same period last year, and around 80 per cent compared to 2022 figures. The accommodation and food services sector was also heavily impacted,...

  6. Wave of last-minute SMSF lodgements set for this week

    Figures from the Tax Office indicate that 60 per cent of SMSFs had lodged their returns last week, leaving the remaining 40 per cent to lodge in the week before deadline. These figure are an improvement on the 2017–18 financial year, where there was an...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Reporter
    • Category: Super
  7. Watchdogs delay MYOB, Reckon verdict

    will continue to co-operate with them through this review period,” Mr Reed said in a statement to the ASX this morning. Late last month, the ACCC issued a public statement about its “significant” concerns about lessened competition in the software...

  8. Watch for new duties as US, China trade war escalates

    on the possible trade war between the US and China, as the fallout might impact their business clients through new costs. Last week, US President Donald Trump raised the possibility of tariffs on another US$100 billion worth of Chinese exports to the...

  9. Warning shot frightens directors into action on debt

    according to insolvency specialists across Australia, who said inquiries have risen sharply since the ATO letter went out last month. One large practice said inquiries from directors had doubled and almost all of them had received a letter from the Tax...

  10. Walker Wayland partners with IP experts

    be a major asset to a business." The arrangement is the latest in a series of strategic partnerships for Walker Wayland who last year partnered with online legal document provider Law Central, energy sustainability consultants Pangolin Associates, risk...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Business
  11. Walker Wayland confirms senior management appointment

    chartered accountants to ensure they have appropriate quality standards in place within their own practices. At the end of last year the Walker Wayland Australasia network elected Power Tynan CEO Paul Hilton as its new chair.

  12. Wage underpayment issues continue

    and Mr Kent said the ATO’s “stricter approach” to FBT interpretation is something for practitioners to be wary of. “The last few months has seen the ATO finalise its approach to a number of long-standing issues that have previously been on this...

  13. Wage Theft: Don’t be an unwitting contributor

    to know. While proposed wage theft reforms did not make it into the Federal Governments industrial relations bill passed last month, it would be impossible to argue that wage theft is not an ongoing issue in Australia. Analysis from PwC released in 2019...

  14. Wage theft law ‘will do nothing to help underpaid’

    the economy is under increasing stress from rising costs, labour and skill shortages and increasing global uncertainty the last thing business needs is more regulation, more complexity and more rigidity,” said Mr Willox. “These measures will do nothing...

  15. Wage theft claims ‘demonising’ bosses

    of awareness that payroll systems needed to be updated in line with a law change, adding that “punishment should always be a last resort”. “Creating new penalties and offences is a knee-jerk reaction, and often just a cop-out for governments who want to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Naomi Neilson
    • Category: Business
  16. WA woman faces jail time for illegal early release scheme

    benefits by submitting fraudulent applications. The 39-year-old woman was sentenced by the Perth District Court last week to three years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 18 months. According to the statement, the woman pleaded guilty to 30...

  17. WA woman faces jail term over early access to super fraud

    imprisonment. The latest charges come after AFP investigators executed a search warrant at the woman’s High Wycombe home last May, where they seized several documents, $1,750 cash, ink-based business identification and certification stamps, and...

  18. WA takes GP payroll tax off the table

    RACGP WA chair Dr Ramya Raman said the body had raised concerns with the state government after a key legal ruling in NSW last year classified GPs as employees, leaving hundreds of medical centres across Australia facing the prospect of large payroll...

  19. WA state budget fails to deliver broad-based tax reform

    facing sustained cost pressures, says BDO. The Cook Labor government released its 2026–27 state budget for Western Australia last week, forecasting a $3.5 billion operating surplus for 2025–26. Accounting firm BDO said the WA budget was ultimately a...

  20. WA defers payroll tax, offers $17.5k grant

    threshold to $1 million from 1 July 2020, six months earlier than planned. The original payroll tax package announced in WA last year saw the payroll threshold rise to $950,000 from 1 January 2020 and was due to increase again to $1 million from 1...