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  1. ACCC warns accountants about ransomware

    becoming increasingly sophisticated and entrepreneurial in the way they attack. “They've been around a long time but in the last year or so there's certainly been some more of them than there have been in the past,” he said. “One of the things that we...

  2. ACCC to set up National Anti-Scam Centre with $58m in funding

    says the organisation. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will use the $58 million set aside in last week’s budget to complete the setup of the National Anti-Scam Centre over the next two years. ACCC deputy chair Catriona Lowe...

  3. ACCC to prioritise complaints from business and consumer groups

    currently operate in the United Kingdom and Canada. The government released its plans for the complaints mechanism in May last year, following concerns raised by relevant advocacy groups that their complaints were treated in the same way as any other...

  4. ACCC issues scam warning

    to be on the lookout for scams targeting their small business clients. ACCC deputy chair Michael Schaper, who spoke last week at the IPA’s Tasmanian congress, said the commission receives thousands of complaints every year about scams targeting small...

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    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business
  5. ACCC gives green light to MYOB’s acquisition of GreatSoft

    watchdog’s investigation was spurred by earlier concerns raised in its review of the proposed acquisition in October last year. The ACCC noted the deal would leave just Xero and Reckon to compete for sales of practice management software to medium and...

  6. ACCC finds SMSF, property clients captured by scams

    on the rise this year with the amount of money lost on an average month-on-month basis increasing 117 per cent compared to last year. "Last year, Australians reported they lost $64.6 million to investment scams to Scamwatch and the Australian Cybercrime...

  7. ACCC casts doubts over MYOB acquisition of GreatSoft

    to migrate to the cloud.” The competition watchdog’s preliminary concerns come after it initiated a review in October last year following the announcement of the proposed acquisition. The ACCC believes the proposed deal could potentially lead to...

  8. ABRS extends director ID deadline by 2 weeks

    people to apply.” Mr Jordan said that over 1.8 million directors had now applied for their director ID, up from 1.5 million last week. Following the significant shortfall in applications, many predicted that the ABRS would extend the deadline. In the...

  9. AAT unveils 29 further appointments

    Appeals Tribunal, including two new deputy presidents. Attorney-General George Brandis QC announced the 29 appointments last week, following nine appointments that were made last month. Professor Bernard McCabe and James Walsh have both been appointed...

  10. AAT sets aside trustee disqualification

    Merchant, the founder of surfwear brand Billabong, was part of a series of cases. It follows the Federal Court decision last week which examined whether Merchant had used his family trust to engage in an asset wash sale by selling Billabong shares to...

  11. AAT rules against ATO’s ‘incorrect’ $1.4m fine on Perth taxpayer

    $2.9 million in outstanding income tax liabilities dating back to 2014. AAT deputy president Boyle said in a judgment last week the penalty was “excessive or otherwise incorrect and that the assessment should have been that no penalty was applicable”....

  12. AAT rejects navy sailor’s work-related claims

    equipment “out of the generosity of his own heart”, has had his claims turned down by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Last week, the AAT confirmed that taxpayer Cameron Lambourne, an electronics technician with the Australian Navy, was not entitled...

  13. AAT refuses long-standing tax agent’s application ‘in public interest’

    debt and $515,705.05 in Client Activity Centre debt. The company had owed a CAC debt continuously since May 2007, and the last payment towards it was $226.73 in July 2018. Mr Coogan also failed to pay five Director Penalty Notices (DPN) totalling...

  14. AAT dismisses taxpayer’s residency dispute

    leave to appeal the decision to the High Court of Australia. PwC, who is now currently acting on behalf of the taxpayer, had last week published a memo noting that the ATO has used new figures to support its appeal, noting that it conducted 18,350...

  15. AAT dismisses banning review after adviser failed to appear

    fact that he intended to withhold fees from his firm. ASIC appealed the outcome of the appeal in the Federal Court in July last year, where the court sided with ASIC’s original ruling and set aside the AAT’s ruling. The Federal Court found the AAT had...

  16. AAT affirms grounding of former tax agent amid bankruptcy probe

    down by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Peter Moltoni, a former tax agent who was stripped of his registration in June last year, had been issued a departure prohibition order (DPO) by the Commissioner of Taxation in November 2017 due to tax debts...

  17. AAT affirms disqualification of SMSF trustees

    has been a breach of the SIS Act.” The tribunal decision comes after it was reported Mr Merchant had filed a major lawsuit last year against big four firm EY over advice that was given which resulted in an audit by the ATO in 2017 and led to Mr...

  18. AAT affirms ATO GST decision

    claimed it operated a precious metal refinery, Very Important Business (VIB), had tried to claim input tax credits for the last quarter of 2015 for the purchases of scrap gold. VIB also claimed its subsequent supplies of precious metal to so-called...

  19. A year of major reforms and new obligations

    with the biggest impact.” The AML/CTF reforms will commence on 31 March 2026 after the legislation was passed by Parliament last month. The legislation captures new designated services, such as those provided by accountants, under the AML/CTF regime.

  20. A turning point for transfer pricing?

    organisation holds a solid transfer pricing (TP) position based on the environment they forecast. But that was before the last two years changed everything. COVID changed the way the world did business and global shocks since, such as the Russia-Ukraine...