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  1. TBC increase to add further complexity, advisers warned

    With the general transfer balance cap set to increase to $1.9 million from 1 July, the SMSF Association has highlighted some of the potential strategies and pitfalls with the increase. Following the release of the December quarter CPI figure this week,...

  2. Taylor David taps senior ASIC lawyer for associate role

    to the edge.” “There’s quite a few more proactive clients that are coming to us…we’ve grown fairly significantly in the last financial year, and we will be looking at increasing our resource base to cope with the demand in this second part of the year,”...

  3. Taxpayers using ATO Community at risk of ‘plainly wrong’ advice

    prevent that occurring.” ATO Community was launched in 2017 to encourage taxpayers to self-serve and resolve queries online. Last year, chief service delivery officer David Allen referred taxpayers to the online forum as “with more than 117,000 members...

  4. Taxpayers urged to keep work-from-home records

    furniture, and other household fixtures that see wear as a result of a taxpayer’s working arrangements. The Tax Office last extended its simplified working-from-home deduction method in January while New South Wales was reckoning with the containment of...

  5. Taxpayers to brace for new ATO engagement

    with businesses will see taxpayers need to provide evidence that they are a “good tax citizen”, warns a mid-tier firm. Late last year, the ATO released their Action Differentiation Framework (ADF), providing insight into their strategic approach to...

  6. Taxpayers put on notice over last-minute returns

    victim to fraudsters as the October deadline nears, CPA Australia has said. Taxpayers who leave their tax returns to the last minute are more likely to make costly errors and expose themselves to scammers making promises that are “too good to be true”,...

  7. Taxpayers get wise to ATO impersonators

    Phone, SMS and email have fallen markedly since last year. Fake calls and messages from people claiming to be the ATO have fallen 70 per cent compared with 12 months ago, according to the latest data. Just 1,058 cases of attempted scams were reported...

  8. Taxpayers cautioned against lodging early this year

    assessments, with no requirement for the taxpayer to lodge another tax return or seek an amendment,” the Tax Office said last month. The Institute of Public Accountants general manager of technical policy Tony Greco said that, while there may be a...

  9. Taxpayer loses appeal in case involving unexplained bank deposits

    failed to prove that amended assessment and penalty assessments issued by the ATO were excessive in a decision handed down last week, HWFX and Commissioner of Taxation (Taxation) [2025] ARTA 680. The amended assessments and penalty assessments were...

  10. TaxLeopard hunts down rival Airtax to feed expansion plan

    The tax app for freelancers and contractors has made its first acquisition since launching last year, buying a “sleeping giant” developed by PwC. Accounting software start-up TaxLeopard has acquired rival fintech Airtax, kicking off expansion plans...

  11. Taxing times but EOFY brings light relief

    need to access that $10,000 or if there’s an alternative income stream available. In most instances, it should be seen as a last resort. Super changes from 1 July 2020 From 1 July 2020, Australians under the age of 67 will be eligible to make voluntary...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Bryan Ashenden, BT
    • Category: Tax
  12. Taxation Ombudsman laments funding constraints

    to build upon the 2,712 complaints it received in the 12 months to 30 June 2019. Of the 2,827 complaints resolved in the last financial year, the IGTO received a 45 per cent satisfaction result in terms of outcome and a 65 per cent satisfaction with...

  13. Tax, technical quirks put clients at ‘crippling’ risk of penalty

    moves to move in on employers who aren’t meeting their SG obligations. A report from the tax office released in August last year showed the net superannuation gap — which is the difference between the value of SG gaps required to be paid by law minus...

  14. Tax, SMEs set to be ‘political football’ in 2019 as election nears

    Daily, RSM principal, Jarrad Turnbull believes SMEs will be thrust into the spotlight as political parties look to claim last minute votes. “The SME space will be a political football in the lead up to the election, predicted to be in May 2019, as all...

  15. Tax, BAS fraudster sentenced to jail

    not recovered. The remaining $563,160 in refunds were either credited to her ATO account, cancelled or recalled by the ATO. Last Friday in Orange District Court, Ms Noble was sentenced to five years in jail, with 2.5 years to serve, and was given a...

  16. Tax, BAS agent education standards set for overhaul following landmark review

    with a number of accounting bodies hitting out at the proposal when it was first floated in a discussion paper released last year. The government has adopted a neutral position on the final recommendation, noting that it will instead undertake further...

  17. Tax-time scammers ‘getting more sophisticated’

    said one cyber security expert. Stephen Kho of security software operation Avast said one example flagged by the ATO last week was typical of tax time fraud. It involved fake emails that purported to offer tax return lodgement receipts and asked...

  18. Tax-free treatment of COVID-19 grants to be extended

    to eligible business support grants received in the 2021–22 financial year. The new bill builds on legislation passed late last year which limits the tax concession to grants received in the 2020–21 financial year. The Treasurer has to declare that a...

  19. Tax white paper 'very likely' delayed indefinitely

    delayed the release until its second term (assuming it is re-elected). “I think everything that has happened over the last month and particularly the last week probably indicates that this government is going to be very risk-averse for the remainder of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Katarina Taurian
    • Category: Tax
  20. Tax watchdog vows to inspect JobKeeper termination letters

    it has happened since the IGTO took over the complaints handling function from the Commonwealth Ombudsman in 2015. As of last week, the IGTO has received 202 complaints, raising about 260 issues relating to COVID-19 stimulus payments. Ms Payne said 33...