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  1. Two jailed for separate multi-million dollar tax fraud schemes

    lodgements and the first jail term for alleged members of an international crime syndicate. Two men received jail terms late last week for their roles in two separate multi-million dollar schemes to defraud the ATO. A NSW man was sentenced to one year...

  2. Two food outlets fined for underpaying casuals

    Judge Brown said. It is the second time the FWO has secured a penalty in court against Mr Andary following a $3,500 fine last year for underpaying another worker formerly employed at Valley Pizza. The FWO has also secured court orders for nearly $9,000...

  3. Two firms join Walker Wayland

    Lawyers is the second law firm to join Walker Wayland Australasia after debt negotiation firm Tax Assure joined in November last year. "Now Sutton Douglass extends that area of expertise," said Mr Dorazio. "Sutton Douglass marries strong technical tax...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business
  4. Tweaks to negative gearing, CGT won't solve housing crisis, says Domain, HIA

    relatively small price movements of around 1-4 per cent. That’s less than the growth many cities saw in a single quarter last year." Powell said a change in tax settings could, however, see a shift in who’s buying property. “If investor activity eases,...

  5. Turnaround in lodgement troubles following ATO swoop

    numbers are starting to drop this financial year, according to both the tax office and auditors on the front line. Late last year, the ATO reported that non-lodgement rates for the SMSF sector had reached critical levels, with around 40,000 funds at...

  6. Turn your firm into a hybrid vehicle

    (a whole different topic and set of skills) and financially through self-managed super, estate planning and trusts. Last, teach them how to get their finances in order. Boring but vital things like normalising the profit of the business, removing any...

  7. Trusts tipped to be on the out

    of a pattern that will see the commissioner eventually restrict trusts to being “very much a rarity” in the coming years. Last week, the ATO announced it will be cracking down on arrangements that create artificial differences between taxable net income...

  8. 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...

  9. Trust tax overhaul doesn’t solve stamp duty issue

    trusts improves on the original proposal, but state stamp duty remains the biggest hurdle for businesses that restructure. Last week, the government released draft legislation to implement the major components of its 30 per cent minimum tax on...

  10. Trust has become the only currency for banking apps

    use of apps, there’s inevitably pressure to build on that foundation. A review of the apps of five major Australian banks last year found customers wanted to see more capabilities and functionality, particularly around money movement and management to...

  11. Trust accounts will help stop smaller players being strangled

    to pay smaller subcontractors has the potential to significantly reduce construction industry insolvencies. Transcripts from last week’s Senate inquiry findings highlighted the committee recommends a two year trial of Project Bank Accounts, where...

  12. Trump’s tariffs set to hit regional NSW SMEs hard: Business NSW

    regional NSW are likely to struggle with the newly enforced 10 per cent tariff policy announced by US President Donald Trump last week. Daniel Hunter, chief executive of Business NSW, said regional businesses selling direct to the US and those trading...

  13. Triple-pronged approach to Div 7A puts ‘crazy’ demand on accountants

    with people and try and explain three completely different approaches to the same goal.” “It wasn’t raised in the last budget, and there has been nothing issued, I’ve seen nothing from the Treasurer from the Assistant Treasurer on the current...

  14. Triguboff calls for relaxed rules on SMSF borrowing

    to be the same as they are for regular purchasers. Mr Triguboff told delegates at the SMSF Members Association conference last week that SMSFs should be more freely able to use money for housing. “I would like the rules for SMSFs as far as lending is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Katarina Taurian
    • Category: Super
  15. Tribunal upholds ATO’s position in COVID-19 payment case

    transactions that were recorded on the bank statements as salary/wages or director fees. The Commissioner also said the last time wages were reported was in the 2016 income tax return. A review of business activity statements between 1 July 2016 and 31...

  16. Tribunal rules in favour of taxpayer in tax evasion case

    has successfully proven that amended income tax assessments by the Commissioner of Taxation were excessive in a decision last week, Kirtlan and Commissioner of Taxation (Taxation) [2025] ARTA 539. The Administrative Review Tribunal set aside an...

  17. Tribunal overturns tax agent’s 5-year ban, laments ‘regrettable’ TPB investigation

    their tax agent registrations after the TPB had terminated their registrations and imposed a five-year banning period in May last year. The TPB had contended that Mr Birdseye, a tax agent of 39 years, had failed to comply with personal tax obligations,...

  18. Tribunal overturns decision on meal expense deductions

    Review Tribunal of Australia (ARTA) handed down its decision in Shaw and Commissioner of Taxation (Taxation) [2025] ARTA 224 last month, examining whether meal expenses that were claimed by a truck driver should be allowed in full. The applicant in the...

  19. Tribunal affirms ATO’s view in tax residency case

    Act 1936. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) previously handed down a decision on the same matter in February last year, ruling in favour of the Commissioner. However, the Federal Court ordered the decision be quashed and remitted the matter back...

  20. Trial tax clinics a hit with community, educators

    months of operation, benefitting both the community and accounting students. Announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison late last year, the pilot phase of the national tax clinic program has now passed its three-month mark, with advice provided to 86...