Technology

Rising workloads, talent shortages placing pressure on accountants, bookkeepers

Recent research from Dext has highlighted higher workloads, difficulty hiring and retaining talent, and keeping up...

17 September 2026 • By Miranda Brownlee

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Business

Early-bird tax savings: are partition arrangements made now the solution to...

Entering a partition arrangement early could save joint property owners looking to subdivide from a significant tax...

17 September 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Business

Former Altezza Partners co-owner joins Brisbane firm

Matthew Smith has departed Prime Financial Group after 13 years to join a chartered accounting and financial services...

17 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Technology

The AI moment in accounting will follow a familiar pattern

Through every tech shift, from the personal computer to cloud computing, I’ve watched the same pattern repeat, writes...

17 September 2026 • By John Munden

Appointments

Prospa appoints first chief operating officer

Fintech firm Prospa has appointed an experienced financial services and digital operations leader to elevate customer...

16 September 2026 • By Miranda Brownlee

Business

Taxpayers’ NZ properties not safe in $2.4m legal expenses recovery action

Taxpayers have failed in their interlocutory application against the Commissioner of Taxation to protect their New...

16 September 2026 • By Carlos Tse

Business

Treasury floats giving ATO monthly PAYG determination power

New draft legislation to allow monthly PAYG would require those who have failed to meet their tax obligations to...

16 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

Tax specialist exposes ‘biggest’ weakness in trust tax reform

Families considering the proposed fixed distribution alternative would need to “think much further ahead,” as today’s...

16 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Tax

Under the Hood: Answering the most-asked CGT questions

In this episode of Under the Hood, journalist Carlos Tse is joined by tax experts Lee-Ann Hayes and Michael Carruthers...

15 September 2026 • By Noemie Veñegas

Business

‘A lot more work and headaches’: small practitioner blasts trust tax reforms

The proposed discretionary trust tax changes will burden small practitioners with significant costs that they may not...

15 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

Settle stamp duty treatment before trust tax rules start

CPA Australia has argued that the proposal to allow businesses to elect to make fixed distributions to pre-nominated...

15 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Technology

Xero’s ANZ head on where accountants should spend their energy with AI adoption

Beyond appreciating how new technologies will improve client service delivery, accountants must also consider how tech...

15 September 2026 • By Jerome Doraisamy

Regulation

CGT treatment of MITs raises ‘discrete issue’

The SMSF Association has lodged a supplementary submission for the second tranche of CGT and negative gearing changes...

15 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Regulation

Tax agent with overdue tax debts fails to win back registration

A decision by the TPB to terminate a tax agent for three years due to his failure to pay down personal tax debts has...

14 September 2026 • By Miranda Brownlee

Business

Shortfall of 18k accountants, auditors expected by 2035

A new report has forecast a looming workforce gap in the accounting profession, with an acute shortage predicted among...

14 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

ATO’s GIC alert for PAYG instalments a first, says accountant

A Sydney-based accountant has noted that she has never seen the Tax Office take any compliance action or send warning...

14 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

Your clients' accounts record what was agreed, not what was allowed

Nine years of examining customer profitability points to $21.8 billion a year that no ledger is designed to report....

11 September 2026 • By Paul Allen, Margin Partners

Business

ATO employee faces child abuse, corruption charges

An ATO staff member has been charged with corruption-related offences and possessing alleged child abuse material on...

11 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur