Business

Small businesses lay bare funding frustrations as cash flow storm looms

Loan conditions and collateral guarantees continue to be major stumbling blocks for small businesses looking to access...

21 January 2021

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New year – new opportunities to increase your productivity

Promoted by BAW Automation 7 Tips and tools to help you take back your time in 2021

20 January 2021 • By BAW Automation

Business

Super Retail Group hands back $1.7m in JobKeeper subsidies

Super Retail Group will follow Toyota Australia in voluntarily repaying $1.7 million in JobKeeper payments after...

19 January 2021

Business

Start the year strong: 5 ways to get your business in shape for 2021

Promoted by MYOB Is your business in shape for a successful 2021? As the new year kicks into gear, make sure you and...

18 January 2021 • By MYOB

Business

Attorney-General floats bankruptcy changes, tougher sanctions against...

Changes to the personal insolvency system, including reducing the default period of bankruptcy from three years to one...

18 January 2021 • By Jotham Lian

Business

Ombudsman pushes for HECS-style loans for small businesses

The small business ombudsman has called for the government to introduce a revenue-contingent loan program to help...

15 January 2021

Regulation

‘No demand shortage’: Predictions for the profession in 2021

Accounting professionals are likely to remain in hot demand over the coming year as they continue to play a pivotal...

14 January 2021

Regulation

Liquidator sees registration suspended after AAT review

A registered liquidator has succeeded in reducing his banning order following a review by the Administrative Appeals...

14 January 2021

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12 January 2021 • By Tim Johnson

Business

Businesses from ‘accountants to zoos’ demanding end to JobKeeper: Acting PM

The government is standing firm on its decision to wind down the JobKeeper program by March as it claims that...

12 January 2021

Business

Retail turnover spikes as Australians spend big in November

National retail turnover in November 2020 rose by over 13 per cent compared with the year before as Australia’s...

11 January 2021 • By Jotham Lian

Business

Tribunal reduces agent’s banning order

A deregistered tax agent has successfully reduced his banning order by half after pleading his case with the...

11 January 2021

Technology

Government moves in on digital business communication

Electronic signatures, digital record keeping and flexible payment methods could now be enshrined in law as the...

11 January 2021 • By Jotham Lian

Tax

ASIC defends handling of Shipton’s tax expense probe

ASIC has revealed why it chose to delay sending correspondence around embattled chair James Shipton’s expenses to the...

08 January 2021

Business

SMEs cautioned on cash-flow pressure as insolvency reforms kick in

Troubled businesses looking to access the new simplified debt restructuring process should be wary of a potential...

07 January 2021 • By Jotham Lian

Tax

Phoney tax agent jailed after 14 years on the run

A Victorian man who pretended to be a tax agent has now been sentenced to five months in jail after pocketing over...

06 January 2021

Business

Small business insolvency reforms now in place

Insolvency reforms that will allow small businesses to restructure their debts or wind up their operations faster have...

05 January 2021

Regulation

Jail, $640k fine for myGov-lodging unregistered agent

A Brisbane man has now been sentenced to seven and a half months in jail and fined $640,000 for repeatedly providing...

04 January 2021