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  1. 3 Fail-safe Ways to Land New Clients

    you will be able to refine your skillset, develop a stronger profile and address your market more effectively. And the last one: capitalise on the power of content marketing. By reaching out to a targeted audience with relevant and engaging content you...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Nicolette Maury, Vice President and Country Manager, Intuit Australia
    • Category: Business
  2. 23 days late: Accounting firms face growing debtor days

    flow now ranks within the top five challenges facing practices, despite such concerns failing to feature for three of the last four years. The white paper notes that there are a range of strategies to help reduce delays, including documenting credit...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Reporter
    • Category: Business
  3. 2026 DPN Surge: Why Early Intervention Beats the 21-Day Clock

    Taxation Office (ATO) adopting a far more active stance on debt recovery. Director Penalty Notices (DPNs), once considered a last-resort enforcement tool, are now being issued earlier and more frequently. For accountants, this shift has practical...

  4. 2026 budget changes trigger triple taxation exposure for trust assets on death

    It may be that, if the proposed changes are implemented as announced, the last remaining planning opportunity with that promoted by author Douglas Adams, namely “spending a year dead for tax purposes”, writes Matthew Burgess. The 2026 budget has...

  5. 2024: The year in review

    pay period to which the payment relates. The rate increases again on 1 July 2025 by 0.5 per cent to 12 per cent. This is the last currently legislated increase in the rate. Changes to foreign resident capital gains withholding rules Under legislative...

  6. 2021: End of year wrap

    has, according to the World Health Organization at the time of writing, infected nearly 272 million people. This time last year, I reported in this column that nearly 66 million people globally had been infected. In this same period, Australia has...

  7. 2021–22 federal budget: delving into the detail

    LMITO to 2021–22 will not be received until after 1 July 2022 when eligible individuals lodge their 2022 income tax return. “Last year, the Stage two tax cuts were brought forward by two years. This means the LMITO was then reduced to two years, then it...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Intuit Quickbooks
    • Category: Business
  8. 2021 COVID-19 support measures

    by their recent short lockdowns. There is a sense of déjà vu — the law and the systems for JobKeeper were designed in haste last year but, in the main, did their job to support struggling businesses and households. JobKeeper is a fine blueprint, and it...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Robyn Jacobson, The Tax Institute
    • Category: Business
  9. 2020 audits to focus on investment strategy

    needs of the fund.” SMSF auditor and Tactical Super director Deanne Firth said the ATO’s letter campaign to 17,000 trustees last year had shaken many in the industry out of their complacency when it came to constructing a detailed investment strategy....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Sarah Kendell
    • Category: Super
  10. 2018 accounting job hotspots revealed

    Recruitment Job Report for January to June, for reasons including a leakage of candidates to commercial organisations. Late last year, Hays’ research put the audit function in the automation pipeline, but employers are still finding significant value in...

  11. 20 days for Aussie clients to file NZ version of STP

    obligations for New Zealand workers. “Because the [payday filing] is mandatory, there was a lead-up — just like in Australia last year with STP, before the first of July last year it wasn’t compulsory, it was optional [for employers with more than 20...

  12. 2 in 3 SME owners falter on succession as advice opportunity increases

    broader estate planning steps despite the issue rising up to second place on the list of business concerns, up from fifth last year. On the contrary, cash flow concerns have dropped from first spot in 2016/16 to fourth place this year. Boutique...

  13. 170,000 taxpayers rush to lodge on 1 July

    lodgements were received on 1 July, just under a quarter of the 740,000 lodgements it received in its “biggest 1 July ever” last year. Discounting the unique circumstances that led to a surge in 2020, this year’s figures are still an increase from the...

  14. 14m personal records stolen in Latitude hack

    details involved in the Latitude attack now exceeds the 9.7 million customers compromised during Medibank cyber breach last October and a similar number in the Optus hack last September. Cybersecurity expert Professor Nigel Phair of Monash University...

  15. 14k employers, $230m in super: Financial Services Minister defends proposed SG amnesty

    minimum penalties on employers who fail to come forward during the amnesty period. The bill passed the lower house late last year, with debate in the Senate set to resume when Parliament sits in February. Ms Hume also took the opportunity to shoot down...

  16. 125% foreign student visa fee hike to worsen accountant shortage

    However, after the international student population reached a record high of 671,000 in March – a 15 per cent increase on last year – pressure has mounted to bring numbers down. According to budget papers released in May, the government estimated its...

  17. 120 DPNs a day drive insolvencies back to pre-pandemic level

    reality that they’ve been trading a zombie company for some period”. “The ATO is doing very aggressive signaling. In the last week, we’ve seen the first few ATO wind-ups hitting the courts – it’s only a few, less than 10,” Mr Winter said “So the ATO has...

  18. 12% SG rise a right idea at a wrong time, says CA ANZ

    has backed calls to halt the increase to 12 per cent in recognition of the economic situation and its impacts. “Since the last election, there has been a global pandemic, the first Australian recession in 29 years, our highest unemployment in 20 years,...

  19. 115,000 SMSFs cheaper, online admin over accountants

    an accountant. “Overall, the number of SMSFs who do not use an accountant has doubled by nearly two and a half times in the last 10 years,” said Investment Trends research director Recep III Peker at an event in Sydney. “Part of it is because of digital...

  20. 100A ruling leaves trust decisions haunted by ‘uncertainty’

    result will be an additional tax burden on small family business, tax professionals say. Final ruling TR 2022/4 released last week has quickly attracted critics for its lack of substantive changes to the draft published in February despite an extended...