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  1. Top tips for selling an accounting practice

    buyers waiting. Mark Attard of Xcllusive Business Sales has been selling accounting practices Australia-wide for the last 10 years and is more than happy to answer any questions you may have. Mark can be contacted 02 9817 3331 or email...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: AustralianBiz
    • Category: Business
  2. Top policies and promises of the 2019 federal election

    April and run to 30 June 2020. This has already been passed by the parliament. As part of the release of its policy costings last week, the federal opposition unveild plans to make the instant asset write-off for SMEs permanent. Further, a new measure...

  3. Top execs at fault for 'accounting body turmoil’

    faced heavy backlash in recent months over declining member services and reports of financial losses and staff cuts. In the last financial year, CA ANZ reported $147 million in revenue but posted a loss of $13 million. The body earned $90 million in...

  4. Top EOFY mistakes revealed

    year's results 2. Not keeping accounts and records up to date throughout the year (58 per cent) - down from 62 per cent last year 3. No contact with their accountant over the financial year (58 per cent) - up from 42 per cent last year 4. Does not...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Michael Masterman
    • Category: Business
  5. Top 3 CGT errors in 2017 flagged

    of the contribution,” Mr Lewis explained. This may have happened in circumstances where the members wanted to utilise their last opportunity to contribute the $540,000 worth of non-concessional contributions into superannuation, he said. “So [in those...

  6. Top 100 SMSF auditors circled for ATO program

    who lodge. Assistant Commissioner for SMSFs at the ATO, Dana Fleming, told delegates at the SMSF Summit in Brisbane last week that assurance activities to date have resulted in 98 referrals from the ATO to ASIC. The ATO makes referrals to ASIC where it...

  7. Top 10 suburbs reporting greatest super loss

    10 postcodes contributing most to the $20.8 million in lost and unclaimed super across the country. Data released by the ATO last week found there is over $20.8 billion in lost and unclaimed super across Australia. “Often people lose touch with their...

  8. Too soon to back AAT on Div 7A, accountants told

    practitioners, we’re still working with clients based on the Tax office’s guidelines on trust distributions which came out last year. There’s since been a couple of tax cases that have challenged some of the views in that guidance,” he said. “[The Tax...

  9. Too soon for more promoter penalty changes: CPA Australia

    scope, including a broader definition of what it means to be a ‘promoter’. The Treasury consultation paper, released last month, proposes introducing grouping rules to address the conduct of associates of tax schemes, as well as altering an exemption...

  10. To fix or not to fix: What smart accountants are doing with their home loans

    per cent, with its lowest two-year fixed rate now starting at 5.24 per cent. BOQ increased its fixed rates by 0.40 per cent last week. Two-year fixed rates remain the sharpest priced in the market. At the time this article was published, the sharpest...

  11. Tips and tools of the predictive practice

    in spite of the enormous volume of data, Google Trends provides real-time info on searches that have taken place over the last hour in Australia and New Zealand. To get some idea of the number of people in each location with an interest in “plumbing”,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Suresh Sood, PhD, Data Scientist, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand
    • Category: Regulation
  12. Timing issues highlighted with private company share transfers

    enforce ownership, that’s transfer of beneficial ownership,” he told delegates at the SMSF Association Technical Day last week. “The ATO will accept that if that happens before the time you update the share registry, then that’s the time of the...

  13. Time-based billing? Time to move on

    having any confidence in using other methods like value-based pricing. Value pricing is a strategy that’s appeared in the last couple of years, referenced by leading experts all over the world, such as Ron Baker (director, VeraSage Institute, USA), Mark...

  14. Time to simplify accounting for goodwill and intangibles

    has been turning — back to the future — to the vastly simpler option of amortising goodwill over a set period, last seen circa 2005. Although the International Accounting Standards Board, whose standards are adopted in Australia, has recently indicated...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Amir Ghandar and Matthew Pinnuck
    • Category: Business
  15. Time running out for 50,000 ‘nervous’ directors with ATO debt 

    The clock is ticking for thousands who were given a stern warning by the ATO to act on their tax liabilities late last month. More than 50,000 ATO letters demanding debt repayment by company directors had delivered a “jolt” last month that spurred many...

  16. Time for some tough talking

    outstanding tax debts, while the Australian Tax Office had cut businesses some slack, this generosity wasn’t going to last forever. And it hasn’t. For a while, the ATO had been sympathetic about uncertain cash flows and made some changes to its normal...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Glenn Crisp, Jirsch Sutherland
    • Category: Business
  17. Three-quarters of Australians back wealth tax amid rising inequality

    most Australians support more action to rein in the ultra-rich as the G20 agreed to work on a 2 per cent levy on assets last week. Around three-quarters of Australians support a tax on billionaires to curb rising inequality that has reached “obscene”...

  18. Three ways to solve all your s100A problems

    to respond to such requests in a timely manner. Further, decisions about trust distributions are frequently made in the last weeks of June each year. The trust distribution minute must be signed before the stroke of midnight on 30 June for most trusts....

  19. Thousands of tax debt defaults ‘in the pipeline’

    been informed of several dozen defaults after the ATO revealed that it had sent out almost 300 intent-to-disclose notices last week. Mr Coghlan said all of the taxpayers involved were more than 90 days overdue, had no engagement with the ATO and while...

  20. Thousands of clients set to be contacted on incoming STP deadline

    with 1–4 employees account for 584,744 of that total, and the remaining 197,164 are businesses with 5–19 employees. Late last year, the bill proposing to extend STP to employers with 19 or less employees from 1 July 2019 was passed by the Senate, but...