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  1. ‘We are not immune’: Deloitte mandates 20% pay cut

    immune,” Mr Deutsch said. “Our own Deloitte Access Economics team estimate that over 1 million jobs have been lost in the last three weeks. In this environment, a significant focus for my leadership team and me is to minimise job losses across our...

  2. ‘Watch very closely’: mid-tier flags fuel tax credit change delay

    have to be aware of this change, which may lead to administrative issues. “Most of the fuel tax credit claimants over the last couple of years have been used to the change occurring on either 1 August or 1 February and now this year, they would have...

  3. ‘Warning shot’: Experts react to ATO property development tax alert

    and minimisation, and encouraged landowners and developers to review their existing arrangements for possible risks. Last Wednesday (14 January), the ATO released a tax alert (TA 2026/1) which stated that taxpayers using contrived property arrangements...

  4. ‘Wage theft’ leaves workers $40m poorer

    Australian businesses shortchanged their employees by more than $40 million last financial year, despite a staggering number of visits to the ombudsman’s website and pay calculation tools. Releasing its annual report, the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO)...

  5. ‘Voracious’ tax, advisory demand drives spate of mid-tier hires

    said. “Cyber security is a new service, and it sits in a risk advisory services group, and we’ve been working on it for the last 18 months to two years,” he said. “That will be a focus area of our strategy going forward,” he said. Appointments related...

  6. ‘Very handy’: ATO provides guidance on client STP reporting status

    reporting status of their clients, with the profession called to ramp up preparation ahead of the impending start date. Last week, the ATO sent out an email to tax and BAS agents with a list of clients who lodged a payment summary annual report for...

  7. ‘Utterly untenable’: Labor pushes back on franking credit inquiry

    debates from both sides of the table, as well as the voting public, including the most recent inquiry hearing in Chatswood last Friday, where a man was ejected from the hearing and boos and jeers were heard when an attendee spoke in favour of the new...

  8. ‘Uptick in enquiries and nervousness’: ATO investigations spark fear

    secret accounts is “just the tip of the iceberg”, according to a big four firm who has seen a rise in advice enquiries. Last week, the ATO announced it had begun contacting 106 Australians who are suspected of utilising tax evasion schemes through...

  9. ‘Unreasonable burden, negligible revenue’: ATO called out on draft FBT ruling

    arguing that it would capture regional employers and slug an extra $1.6 million in FBT costs to current taxpayers. Late last year, the ATO released draft taxation ruling 2019/D5, detailing conditions considered as providing a car parking benefit. The...

  10. ‘Unprecedented level of visibility’: ATO announces first use of STP data

    SG audit work Mr O’Halloran was also keen to tout the ATO’s ongoing SG audit work, with 27,000 SG cases completed over the last financial year. Of those, 22,000 employers were contacted and the ATO raised assessments for $805 million in outstanding SG....

  11. ‘Unnecessary and unfair’: Small business shut out from loss carry back

    and trusts. The temporary loss carry back measure, which was announced in the federal budget and passed through Parliament last week, currently only allows corporate tax entities with an aggregated turnover of less than $5 billion to carry back a tax...

  12. ‘Unfortunate’ casualties to ATO digital crash continue

    being reminded to brace for further delays in the rollout of the platforms earmarked to replace the Tax Agent Portal. Late last year, the ATO said a new service, ATO Online, would be available in the first-half of 2017 as a new platform capable of...

  13. ‘Unannounced’ visits for ATO in pre-insolvency investigation

    illegal phoenix activity, with 80 officers conducting unannounced visits on two sites across Victoria, following 13 visits last August. A Fair Work Ombudsman report put the cost of illegal phoenix activity to the Australian economy at potentially more...

  14. ‘Too soon to celebrate’ fall in inflation rate

    by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) with October data yesterday, saw the headline figure fall from 7.3 per cent last month — but many essential items such as fresh produce and fuel are increasing much faster. “While this month’s annual movement...

  15. ‘Too simplistic’: Standardised deductions aren’t a silver bullet

    work-related expenses. “As the report states, the percentage of taxpayers using a tax agent has hardly changed over the last 10 years,” Mr Jeffreys said. “Why is this? It is not because taxpayers have a significant need to have their tax agents work out...

  16. ‘This cause means the world to us’: NSW accounting firm donates $9k to animal rescue

    $20 to SoCares. Thanks to overwhelming client support, the firm said, the initiative raised $9,040, “more than double last year’s donation”. Tax Stuff director and owner Brad Anthonisz is passionate about the cause, having adopted a staffy-ridgeback...

  17. ‘There’s nothing soft about soft skills’

    more important than the technical knowledge, because historically a lot of the technical knowledge you learnt was going to last you for the whole of your career. “It’s more about being able to find talent, you know across all the ranges, and not just...

  18. ‘The picture it paints is not completely true’: 80% of agent-prepared returns adjusted

    and that takes time. So, the current results might not reflect all the recent activity that the ATO has put in this year and last year,” Mr Greco said. “The ATO is as much at fault as everyone else — they’ve allowed this to happen. It’s been happening...

  19. ‘The most challenging 2 years to date’: PwC Australia reflects and outlines goals ahead

    its 2021 Audit Transparency Report, which speaks to the challenges the big four accounting firm has had to overcome in the last two years, and how it’s positioning itself going forward as a result. PwC Australia’s 2021 Audit Transparency Report has been...

  20. ‘The licensing framework has failed’

    Apricot Actuaries, a new brand of digital advice providers A.S.A.P Advice, has found that of 655 SMSFs established over the last 12 months, 35 per cent did not receive licensed advice. Further, it found that of the 949 pension commencements assisted by...