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  1. ‘Horrendously busy’ tax time 2020 looms

    this tax time, with businesses with 19 or fewer employees completing their first full year of reporting this 30 June. Last year, the ATO urged taxpayers to hold off from lodging their tax returns early, noting that employers had additional time to make...

  2. ‘Green shoots emerging’ with building approval figures: CBA

    had turned the corner despite being 4.6 per cent lower over the year. “We had expected some statistical payback from last month’s big rise,” he said. The level remains subdued, especially on a per capita basis but there is clearer, albeit still modest...

  3. ‘Greater audit activity’ for 2018 FBT lodgements

    their systems and calculations for the new rate, they should also consider the small businesses concessions that kicked in last year. From 1 April 2017, the turnover threshold for FBT concessions increased to $10 million, up from $2 million aggregated...

  4. ‘Great deal of uncertainty’ with tax measures on hold

    Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan Base Rate Entities) Bill 2017 and the defeat of the hotly debated corporate tax cut plans last week, a backlog of bills continue to sit before the Senate. Speaking to Accountants Daily, TaxBanter senior tax trainer, Robyn...

  5. ‘Great angst’: CA ANZ lobbies against mandatory exam

    for FASEA to reconsider recognising the “significant” existing education and training that chartered accountants undergo. Last month, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) released details around the mandatory exam for anyone who...

  6. ‘Glib responses’: Treasury audit framework slammed

    the government’s plan to introduce a three-year audit cycle for SMSFs are “falling on deaf ears”, says one association body. Last month, Treasury released a discussion paper outlining its proposed framework for the three-year model, including suggesting...

  7. ‘Give us a fair go’: Practitioners left scratching their heads over ASIC’s latest estimated industry funding levy

    and not fit for purpose”. ASIC released its latest cost recovery implementation statement for the 2021 financial year last week which shows that costs allocated by the corporate regulator to the advice sector have soared by more than $16 million, up...

  8. ‘Get started now’: Practitioners cautioned on short SG amnesty window

    about the proposed SG amnesty, with one mid-tier partner warning of the short window of opportunity, should the bill pass. Last month, the proposed SG amnesty was resurrected after the previous bill lapsed with the calling of the federal election. The...

  9. ‘Fundamentally flawed, backwards step’: ACCI pushes back on penalty rates bill

    advocacy group has called the government's penalty rates legislation a “backwards step” following its passing in the Senate last week. On 28 August, parliament passed the Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Penalty and Overtime Rates) Act 2025, ensuring the...

  10. ‘Fulsome survey of facts and evidence’ required: ATO speaks on correspondence error

    a high-profile federal court case but says taxpayers should not interpret decisions in isolation of facts and evidence. Last year, the Full Federal Court ruled in Pintarich v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation that Mr Pintarich was liable for the entire...

  11. ‘For God’s sake, leave super alone!’: Bill Kelty

    trade unionist, Labor Party member and former RBA board member Bill Kelty noted that “not one word was said in the last election about moving super to 12 per cent”. “Not a single word from any candidate anywhere in the country, to the best of my...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: James Mitchell
    • Category: Super

  12. ‘Fantastic outcome’: Government clarifies corporate residency rules

    High Court decision in Bywater Investments Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation. “This is a fantastic outcome after the last few years of uncertainty following the Bywater case and it substantially reinstates the position in withdrawn Tax Ruling...

  13. ‘Extreme’ consumer pessimism persists into 2024

    1990s recession. Senior economist Matthew Hassan said the result, almost 20 points below the “neutral” level of 100, meant last year’s “extreme” pessimism had continued into the new year. “For consumers, the new year looks to have picked up where the...

  14. ‘Extraordinary impost’ prompts insolvency exodus

    receiving correspondence from ASIC which outlines the metrics that will make up their ASIC Industry Funding payments for last year, but they still have no idea what it’s actually going to cost them,” said Mr Winter. “At this stage, liquidators are only...

  15. ‘Extended ATO delays’ expected to increase in wake of data spill

    consequences of this, as the ATO directs resources to the investigation. The ATO suggested in its annual report, released last week, that its debt-collection activities were hampered by the imperatives of other compliance investigations. “Taxpayers...

  16. ‘Expand FBT break to EV chargers, solar panels, batteries’

    and help Australia meet its net-zero targets. The government made EVs more affordable for businesses and households in July last year with legislation that exempts them from FBT when provided to employees, whether they are used for personal or work...

  17. ‘Exceeding expectations’: 1 in 5 tax agents using myGovID

    still a month and a half out, so to be there is fantastic because we know that most people traditionally leave it to the last minute,” Mr Dardo said. “There’s a bit of a myth out there that it has not been taken up, but enrolments are far exceeding our...

  18. ‘Everyone is now on notice’: ATO acquires COVID-19 data on 3m Aussies

    to acquire the data of 3 million Australians from Services Australia as it doubles down on the COVID-19 compliance front. Last week, the ATO published a gazette notice informing that it would now acquire data from Services Australia, formerly the...

  19. ‘Every incentive’ for ASIC to kill off accountants’ licence

    Licence (AFSL) became available to accountants because of the phase-out of the accountants’ exemption, which ended in July last year. The exemption allowed accountants to provide superannuation-related advice without operating in an AFSL environment,...

  20. ‘Erroneous’ ATO letters burden tax agents with additional work and stress: IPA

    and letters. The Tax Ombudsman announced she would be undertaking a review into ATO letters and written communications last month with the quality of ATO communications still a major concern for registered agents. The IPA said that erroneous and...

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