Regulation

ASIC prosecutes 100 for failing to assist liquidators

The corporate watchdog has released its latest prosecution figures amid parliamentary scrutiny over its enforcement...

30 October 2023 • By Christine Chen

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Tax

Prepare for surge in GST audits, ATO warns tax agents

The Tax Office has revealed its criteria for audit selection and what raises red flags.

23 October 2023 • By Philip King

Tax

How the ATO has morphed into a quasi-lawmaker

A recent AAT decision overturns years of Tax Office thinking about trusts and Div 7A loans – and highlights how it...

20 October 2023 • By John Jeffreys

Regulation

PwC has lost social licence to self-regulate: Senator Pocock

The reforms PwC plans to adopt in response to the tax leaks scandal have no teeth and will not see a significant shift...

13 October 2023 • By Miranda Brownlee

Tax

ATO to launch upgraded website next month

After almost a decade, the current design moves aside for a more streamlined, intuitive online service, the Tax Office...

12 October 2023 • By Philip King

Tax

ATO loosens constraints on client linking process

The window to complete nominations expands fourfold and a report feature details linking requests, the Tax Office says.

09 October 2023 • By Philip King

Tax

ATO will dob in 9k businesses to credit agencies this month

With more than $5 billion owed by companies meeting the criteria for referral, the Tax Office is drawing a line in the...

09 October 2023 • By Philip King

Super

ATO steps up data-matching to snare late super payments

STP 2 and more sophisticated software enables the Tax Office to monitor payments quarter by quarter, a technical...

05 October 2023 • By Miranda Brownlee

Tax

AAT decision overturns ATO ruling on trusts and Div 7A

Thousands of trusts have fallen into line with the Tax Office’s position that an unpaid present entitlement to a...

04 October 2023 • By Philip King

Tax

Online lodgement deferral system a hit with users, ATO says

All applications must now been done via the office website and most agents had already switched over prior to the...

03 October 2023 • By Philip King

Technology

ATO raises $40m from crackdown on sales suppression tools

Retail and hospitality businesses using the technology should give themselves up or face the consequences, it says.

02 October 2023 • By Philip King

Tax

ATO works hard to fix ‘flaw’ in client linking system

Inadvertent disconnection of a BAS agent will become a source of frustration and inconvenience under the revised...

29 September 2023 • By Philip King

Regulation

Accountants sweat on ‘non-stop’ wave of ATO super audits

The Tax Office’s intensified, data-led approach means that accountants have become inundated with superannuation...

27 September 2023 • By Christine Chen

Regulation

TPB, ATO quizzed on whether PwC ‘too big to fail’

Audit concentration among the Big 4 makes the sector unmanageable, Greens senator claims.

27 September 2023 • By Philip King

Tax

ATO linking system takes giant stride into business

The revised procedure will encompass an additional 1.7 million entities from 13 November.

22 September 2023 • By Philip King

Technology

ATO, myGovID, banks, telecoms to rely more on facial recognition

Identity verification laws introduced this week will allow data matching systems to be developed by the...

15 September 2023 • By Philip King

Business

Business activity hits 7-year low, key indicators tumble

The latest data from CreditorWatch predicts rising insolvency rates over the next year, with food and beverage...

14 September 2023 • By Philip King

Tax

ATO interest charges soar to highest level since GFC

The general and shortfall rates for late tax payments rise for the eighth quarter in a row.

14 September 2023 • By Philip King