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  1. ATO appeals to Full Federal Court over backpacker tax decision

    The ATO has appealed to the Full Federal Court regarding an earlier decision on the application of the backpacker tax. Last month, in Addy v Commissioner of Taxation, the Federal Court ruled that the minimum 15 per cent tax for working holiday makers...

  2. ATO apologises for Online services downtime

    not impacted.” According to the ATO, the virtual queue — or visitor prioritisation system — was first introduced in April last year to help the Tax Office cope with a surge in users accessing its system following the announcement of COVID-19 stimulus...

  3. ATO annual report flags collectable debt struggle

    by 4.8 per cent in 2013/2014 compared to 2012/2013 the ATO stated in its annual report, which was tabled in parliament last week. In 2013/2014, the inflow of new debt continued to outpace improvements in the ATO’s debt management performance, the ATO...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Katarina Taurian
    • Category: Regulation

  4. ATO announces STP Phase 2 blanket deferral

    to keep businesses afloat,” said Mr Greco. “Practitioners have not experienced business as usual conditions since March last year. “The ATO has acknowledged the workload predicament facing practitioners. The profession will take any concessions...

  5. ATO announces myGovID revamp to end user confusion

    app to their ABN to nominate their agent. The ATO said it was prompted to revamp myGovID following a user audit report last year. The report found “several pain points” with the ATO-run service as well as confusion between myGov and myGovID. “The...

  6. ATO advises on year-end system availability

    requests processed after 13 December 2019 may not display on clients’ records until the new year. The ATO will send its last tax return status email on 18 December, with the emails set to resume on 8 January 2020.

  7. ATO advises accountants on client data swoop

    targeted non-compliers with little chance of escaping detection. Social media was announced as a tax office target late last year, as well as private school records and immigration data.

  8. ATO adviser urges bookkeepers: ‘don’t judge Simpler BAS’

    claims that Simpler BAS is “not as simple” might be missing the purpose of the changes to the detriment of their clients. Last week, The Bookkeeper published comments from Carbon Group which questioned whether the ATO’s introduction of Simpler BAS...

  9. ATO adopts ‘strict line’ on PAYG withholding deferrals

    the ATO’s concession generally applies to large withholders — or those that withheld more than $1 million in tax in the last financial year — Mr Kanagaratnam believes advisers should not be afraid to approach the ATO should the situation call for it....

  10. ATO admits to fast-tracking client linking over fraud concerns

    to expand CAL without any consultation which it previously said it would not do without stakeholder input,” Greco said. Last week, Matthew Addison from the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers also weighed in by saying “the ATO has shown no signs of being...

  11. ATO admits past failures

    the organisation has accomplished very little in "the portal space". “I was annoyed because everything that we had done last year to try to build relationships and get people to understand that we are in partnership seemed to be flying out the door...

  12. ATO adds new ‘paper shuffling’ tax schemes to official watch list

    component of their fund balance will also be added. These arrangements have been of concern to the tax office since last financial year at minimum, but adding them to this list signals a considered focus, and is an official warning to professionals who...

  13. ATO adds indebted sole traders to credit referrals

    to CRBs as a tool to influence businesses to take their debt seriously. “A lot of businesses treat the ATO as the lender of last resort so just don’t pay it,” he said. “When money becomes tight businesses just stop paying one of their creditors, and the...

  14. ATO addresses outsourcing queries with auditor independence

    where a specialist SMSF firm prepares the financial statements and conducts the audit but another business is the tax agent. Last month, Heffron managing director Meg Heffron noted that this is a common arrangement for accounting firms that outsource...

  15. ATO action likely as cryptocurrency takes off with clients

    with characteristics similar to bitcoin are an asset for capital gains tax (CGT) purposes, as per the ATO’s update last year. “Accodex has observed a spike in enquiries in recent months. Most of them are speculators that have made significant capital...

  16. ATO ‘hell bent’ on chasing down $34bn in small business debts

    become the exception rather than the rule and “there will be exits”, warned deputy commissioner Vivek Chaudhary in September last year. Small businesses in particular have been targeted for owing 65 per cent of the $50 billion in the ATO’s collectable...

  17. ATO ‘absolutely’ to continue paperless push in 2019

    accounts. That’s where a payment summary will be delivered,” Mr Drost told Accountants Daily at Accountech Live in Melbourne last year. “By stealth, the ATO are removing the paper. When a client signs up to MyGov, a lot of paper stops coming through the...

  18. ATO 'under resourced completely' to deal with SMSFs: analyst

    said the ATO is struggling to keep up with its normal tax duties and is “under resourced completely.” “With SMSFs over the last five years, on top of a GFC, no wonder the tax department can’t’ keep up. And changes to superannuation are just constant,”...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Super

  19. ASX-listed firm names CA, CPA in exec ranks

    to solely focus on the position of executive chairman. “It has been a privilege and an honour to lead MainstreamBPO over the last 11 years. As I step back from day-to-day management duties, the group is in great shape,” he said. “I look forward to...

  20. ASX 300 reap profits from JobKeeper

    A new report shows 58 of the 66 ASX 300 listed companies which received JobKeeper between July and December last year reported positive earnings. An Ownership Matters report released on Thursday showed that 58 of the 66 ASX 300 companies which received...

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