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  1. ATO crackdown focuses on rental properties, work claims, CGT

    relating to producing your rental income.” On work from home expenses, the ATO abolished the shortcut method of claiming last July and introduced a fixed-rate method with a 67c-an-hour deduction in a revised regime with more stringent record-keeping...

  2. ATO court case leaves taxpayers in ‘awkward spot’

    Court to grant special leave to appeal leaves taxpayers in an “awkward spot” when it comes to relying on ATO communications. Last week, the High Court refused the taxpayer’s application for special leave to appeal against the decision of the Full...

  3. ATO continues debt recovery actions against GST fraudsters

    criminal organisations, and youth crime gangs," Heferen said. The most recent arrest was the arrest of a Victorian woman last week, who was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 2 years and 4 months, after she claimed nearly...

  4. ATO considers non-compliance notices for lapsed lodgers

    up over 10 per cent of the SMSF population, totalling 71,000 funds. “They represent $44 billion of super according to their last return lodged, that we don’t know what is happening with,” she said. She added that the reasons for lapsed lodgement...

  5. ATO confirms update to foreign ownership register

    the Commissioner of Taxation would be responsible for the register after he was appointed by the assistant treasurer late last year. His role would be to administer the Register of Foreign Ownership of Australian Assets and maintain accurate records of...

  6. ATO confirms changes to ‘bugbear’ reporting issue

    has heard that the need for agents to get a declaration each time they report on behalf of an employer is a “bugbear”. “Only last week, we had the commissioner sign off on a more streamline process there. It involves an STP engagement authority, where...

  7. ATO confirms ‘practical solution’ in the works for deceased information access

    practitioners from accessing information relating to deceased estates on online services for agents will soon be resolved. Last month, Accountants Daily revealed that a working group had been formed by the ATO to solve the issue of tax practitioners...

  8. ATO concessions cut cost of employee share plans, says HLB Mann Judd

    resident, although other entities in the group can be foreign. Additionally, the employer must be incorporated within the last 10 years, and this incorporation requirement includes all other companies in the group. A further requirement is that the...

  9. ATO compliance hotspots for tax time 2024

    Expect them to focus in particular on: Deductions for working from home expenses. The way these could be claimed changed last year, with the introduction of a new 67 cents per hour fixed rate and enhanced substantiation requirements. We expect the ATO...

  10. ATO completes internal review, set for major upgrades

    cause of the issue, the ATO is due to replace its SAN during additional scheduled downtime over this Easter weekend. “The last couple of weekends, an enormous amount of work has been done to get ready for that change over. It's a matter now of doing the...

  11. ATO complaints going nowhere: Tax watchdog probes discrepancy

    issue previously. Inspector-General of Taxation Karen Payne has revealed that her office received 903 complaints over the last financial year where the ATO said it had no record of such complaints being raised with them. However, 86 per cent of online...

  12. ATO collectable debt balloons to $45bn, small business on hit list

    cent of the net take – and focus of a trio of key compliance programs which were extended by $1.5 billion in budget funding last week. Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones said the compliance programs would bring in $5.7 billion over four years to improve...

  13. ATO closes $105m Plutus payroll case with final fraudster jailed

    conspirators and operated a company that received funds from the scam, channelling money both to himself and his friend. Last July he pleaded guilty to two counts of dealing with the proceeds of crime, including one count of handling money or property...

  14. ATO clears the air over lodgement support bungle

    to tax practitioners has now been established after confusion reigned over the Tax Office’s initial offer of support. Last Friday, the ATO announced that it would look to support practitioners struggling to meet lodgement deadlines through a dedicated...

  15. ATO clarifies contentious business definition

    tax rate reduction. The ATO’s interpretation of whether a company is carrying on a business or a not came into the limelight last week with confusion over whether the corporate tax rate cuts will apply to passive investment companies. The Minister for...

  16. ATO clarifies application of NALI changes

    and will have much broader application than first thought,” he said. The changes to NALI rules, passed through Parliament last month, are yet to receive royal assent.

  17. ATO claims stellar digital performance, but satisfaction dips

    The community’s satisfaction with ATO performance over the last financial year has taken a hit off the back of users’ perception of online systems despite the Tax Office claiming 99 per cent digital system availability over the same period. The ATO has...

  18. ATO circles privately owned and wealthy groups as audits heat up

    Ortner said the ATO will likely look to bide their time to collect revenue again in the coming months. “Certainly over the last 12 months, you all may have the experience that the ATO has deferred disputes in light of COVID,” he said. “So they are...

  19. ATO chases $172bn in undeclared contractor income

    and construction, cleaning, and courier industries are required to lodge a TPAR annually. After the scheme was extended last year, businesses providing road freight services, information technology services, and security, investigation or surveillance...

  20. ATO changes interpretation around commercial debt forgiveness rules

    determination ruling that a creditor must be a natural person to forgive a debt for reasons of natural love and affection. Last week, the Commissioner of Taxation released Draft Taxation Determination 2019/D9, close to eight months after it withdrew ATO...

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