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  1. ATO to commence ‘field visits’ in myGovID push

    Portal or the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House to also make the transition from AUSkey to myGovID. “Late last year, we sent an email to all businesses with an active AUSkey to let them know how to transition and we’ll continue to send emails...

  2. ATO to claw back $155m in JobKeeper overpayments

    be pursued for repayment. The new figures, revealed by ATO second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn at a parliamentary hearing last week, come as the total taxpayer bill for the wage subsidy program has risen to $83 billion since its introduction last...

  3. ATO to be granted greater discretion over old tax debts

    over the 5 years from 2023–24. The ATO began contacting taxpayers about debts previously classed as uneconomic to pursue last year, advising them that the debts would be offset against future refunds. This was in response to an audit by the Australian...

  4. ATO to appeal ART decision on truck driver’s meal expenses

    ARTA 224, which determined that deductions claimed by a long-haul truck driver for meal expenses should be allowed in full. Last week, the Commissioner of Taxation filed a notice of appeal against the ART's decision in the Federal Court. In its decision...

  5. ATO to ‘beef up’ review of companies’ tax frameworks

    New Zealand, at Thomson Reuters, “The justified trust initiative is really an extension of what the OECD proposed over the last couple of years about ensuring multinationals pay the correct amount of tax in the country they're operating in,” Mr Scull...

  6. ATO tipped to pounce once JobKeeper ends

    options before the ATO moves on recouping debts. “While the ATO has been very quiet for almost 12 months, that won’t last,” said Bradd Morelli, national managing partner at Jirsch Sutherland, a national insolvency firm. “And that’s when we expect to see...

  7. ATO tipped to be ‘unshackled’ in 2021

    of its $53 billion debt figure.” While the ATO had pledged to begin with a “really soft re-engagement on debt” in September last year, Mr Blow expects the approach to change over the new year. “This current tax and stimulus nirvana cannot last forever,”...

  8. ATO thanks accountants, foreshadows busy 2021

    for their resilience and hard work in steering the economy back on track. “You can’t underestimate the impact the last 12 months have had; there has been a lot of work done in a very short period of time,” said Ms Wood on an ATO webcast. “We understand...

  9. ATO teams up with telcos to crush scammers

    to block ATO phone call scams has been successfully implemented after more than 100,000 of such spoof calls were reported last year. Minister for Communications, Cyber Safety and the Arts Paul Fletcher said the ATO had teamed up with Australia’s telcos...

  10. ATO teams up with private sector in anti-scam fight

    a “world-leading anti-scam plan” after consumers lost $3.1 billion to scams in 2022. The start of NASC’s work in July last year saw scam losses fall for the first time since 2016, it said. As part of the 2024–25 federal budget, the government also...

  11. ATO targets utes in myth-busting FBT mission

    that the final five draft legislative instruments that implemented changes to FBT record keeping were released by the ATO last month. The changes followed a law that gave the Commissioner the power to allow employers to rely on alternative records to...

  12. ATO targets dodgy deductions for holiday homes  

    on tax agents to help bring owners into line. “Holiday homes might sound minor in the scheme of things,” Ms Anderson said at last week’s Accountants Daily Strategy Days in Melbourne and Sydney. “But if we applied the pub test, I don't think we would...

  13. ATO targeting offshore avoidance

    initiative, he said. Under Project Do It, people disclosing their offshore assets will generally be assessed for the last four years, be liable for a maximum shortfall penalty of 10 per cent and full shortfall interest charges, and will not be...

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    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Regulation
  14. ATO talks over agent linking regime end without agreement

    “Previously, the tax agent handled all of this for them. Small businesses don't want to be taking on this extra work. “The last thing small businesses need right now is to be wrangling with new ATO systems and processes simply to get help with their tax...

  15. ATO taking R&D tax claims more seriously, expert says

    and development tax incentive (RDTI) scheme will have a harder time, said HLB Mann Judd consultant, Troy Smith. Late last year, the ATO published two taxpayer alerts warning against misuse of its research and development tax incentive (RDTI) scheme....

  16. ATO takes aim at ‘reckless’ claims of legal privilege

    that all other relevant documents have been provided,” Ms Saint said. Following the publication of a draft protocol last September, the ATO consulted with government agencies, the Big Four accounting firms and professional bodies including the Law...

  17. ATO systems backfire again on bookkeepers

    house to the new, they may not have made those monthly contributions into the employee’s superannuation fund. “As of our last meeting on Tuesday with the ATO, they were in talks with the Fair Work Ombudsman to ensure that they would provide reassurance...

  18. ATO surveillance sees hundreds of SMSF ABNs cancelled

    risks or red flags with the individual setting up the fund. Ms Fleming said that out of the 26,000 SMSF registrations in the last financial year, 2,100 were flagged for additional reviews by the ATO’s risk analytical model. “Of those additional reviews,...

  19. ATO sticks to its guns in revised WFH deductions regime

    after feedback from the industry. The compliance change, which was scheduled for 1 January in draft PCG 2022/D4 published last November, was a partial win for critics who said most taxpayers and accountants would be unaware of the revised requirements...

  20. ATO steps up data-matching to snare late super payments

    as we can ensure employers are paying their employee’s SG contributions in full, on time and to the right fund,” it said last week. Mr Wynen said that one potential benefit of the expanded data matching program was minimising the super guarantee charge...