Tax

Small business tax relief measures enter lower house

The bill to implement the loss carry-back tax offset and the $20,000 instant asset write-off for small businesses has...

26 June 2026 • By Miranda Brownlee

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Business

Small businesses pushed to pay for alternative super services

With the ATO’s free superannuation clearing house soon to shut permanently, small businesses have been told to...

19 June 2026 • By Carlos Tse and Naomi Neilson

Technology

Accounting firms’ AI investments moving beyond ‘just clerical tasks’

New research from The Access Group has revealed the “inevitability of going past AI being a nice-to-have” for daily...

11 June 2026 • By Jerome Doraisamy

Business

‘Deliberate’ transitions to advisory needed

To make the shift to advisory-based services more sustainable and trustworthy, accounting firms must use AI and...

10 June 2026 • By Jerome Doraisamy

Technology

New tech requires new processes, not a retrofit of outdated approaches

The biggest gap that organisations struggle with culturally is the acceptance that they need to take the opportunity...

09 June 2026 • By Jerome Doraisamy

Business

The need for accountants to be open-minded and willing to change

Through resilience, creativity, and the ethical use of new tools, the next generation of accountants can transform...

02 June 2026 • By Matthew Taylor

Business

Time for a business health check?

Business owners are often focused on running their business, monitoring cash flow and winning the next client. From...

02 June 2026 • By Joelle Tabone

Business

CGT thresholds no longer reflect the realities of small business: COSBOA

Small business owners highlight the damaging effects of the federal budget’s CGT changes, with one owner wondering...

01 June 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Tax

Small businesses need better tax certainty: COSBOA

The nation’s council for small businesses has urged the government to provide greater protection for small businesses...

28 May 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Business

Trust tax proposal built on ‘false assumption’: Pitcher Partners

The Albanese government’s 30 per cent minimum tax rate on discretionary trusts represents one of the most significant...

26 May 2026 • By Matthew Taylor

Technology

What SMEs must know before posting Albo business partner memes

Although recreating an Australian politician’s likeness is not ‘automatically illegal’, take-down orders, penalties...

26 May 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Business

Cash flow pressures continue to impact Aussie businesses

The April Business Risk Index results from CreditorWatch show Australian businesses are being hit by a three-way...

25 May 2026 • By Matthew Taylor

Technology

The AI budget conversation your firm needs before 1 July

The firms I see building real capability aren't necessarily spending more. They're spending with more discipline,...

25 May 2026 • By Andrew Cooke

Tax

Family trust election rules in urgent need of review, government told

The Tax Institute is calling for urgent reforms to the family trust election rules to address some of the issues...

24 May 2026 • By Miranda Brownlee

Tax

Albo is not your new business partner: tax specialist dispels meme myths

Internet memes depicting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a “business partner” with a 47 per cent stake in...

22 May 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Tax

Trust tax minimum killing bucket companies, causing small businesses to suffer

Accountants are not coming out as winners, but scapegoats at the hands of the government’s 30 per cent minimum tax on...

21 May 2026 • By Naomi Neilson

Tax

Unregistered tax agent’s sham business collapses in court

The Federal Court has come down hard on a man accused of profiting from tax agent services despite not being registered.

15 May 2026 • By Naomi Neilson

Technology

AI delivering net positive gains for many SMBs

Recent Intuit research has revealed a reversal of past sentiment regarding the impact of AI on growth, with many small...

14 May 2026 • By Amelia McNamara