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The ATO ‘doesn’t want to budge’: A tax specialist on the surge in SGC letters

One tax specialist is seeing clients receiving SGC letters at least once a week, as the ATO ramps up its debt...

02 November 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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‘Moving feast’ of CGT reform riddled with uncertainty

The ATO has an uphill battle administering the new CGT legislation as it has started releasing guidance on “the...

29 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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Businesses face ‘death by a thousand cuts’ amid tax reforms

The trust tax reform proposals are stacked on surging costs of doing business, restructuring, productivity challenges,...

27 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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Tax reform ‘more like a political talking point’

Accountants remain irked by the proposed tax reforms on multiple fronts after they were introduced in Parliament.

16 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

Tax accountant the ‘great winner’: Government introduces next tranche of trust...

The Labor government has introduced its legislation for a minimum 30 per cent tax on discretionary trusts to...

15 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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Tax agency terminated for serious breaches

The TPB has ended the registration of a tax agent company over client verification failures and offering clients...

14 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

Tax reform uncertainty causing decision ‘paralysis’

A tax specialist has urged the government to provide certainty over its proposed tax reforms as the industry awaits...

14 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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‘Higher tax on entrepreneurship’: CGT reforms ‘meaningless’ for new businesses

The controversial CGT changes punish entrepreneurs who take a calculated risk to grow businesses and investments,...

13 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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CGT reform for innovative start-ups risks limiting effectiveness

Several aspects of the proposed innovative business CGT concession could risk limiting its effectiveness in supporting...

13 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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Is this the ‘optimal path’?: Trust tax reform creates burdensome system

A tax lawyer wonders if the government could have taken a simpler path to achieve its discretionary trusts objectives.

12 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

Minimum tax on discretionary trusts: the draft law lands, and the concerns...

Four bills, 16 days of consultation, and legislation expected just days away. What practitioners need to know now.

09 October 2026 • By Robyn Jacobson, National Tax & Accountants' Association

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Tax reform measures risk adding to red tape burden: CPA Australia

As the release of the Red Tape Reduction Review is awaited, the accounting body said it is hard to reconcile adding...

09 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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‘ALP has never liked trusts’: Government denounced for rushing trust tax reform

The government has failed to “dot their i’s and cross their t’s” in their discretionary trust tax proposals and...

08 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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Tax reforms leave accountants, clients in planning ‘limbo’

A tax adviser has shared how his accounting firm is grappling with the complexity and uncertainty around the...

07 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

‘We don’t have crystal balls’: Trust tax rigidity causing angst

The lack of flexibility in the trust tax legislation is a major concern for accountants and is going to require some...

06 October 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

Business

Compliance burden to add to small business costs

Small businesses already bearing the brunt of brutal economic conditions could now face burgeoning costs of obtaining...

30 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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‘Very poorly thought out’: Minimum trust tax to sting low- to middle-income...

A tax agent has argued that the proposed trust tax legislation will “almost exclusively” hurt low- to middle-income...

29 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur

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Leave small businesses alone in trust tax, building body says

Master Builders Australia has called for small businesses to be grandfathered from the proposal to impose a minimum...

29 September 2026 • By Malavika Santhebennur