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Australia drops down Financial Secrecy Index despite hosting illicit funds

Australia hosts significant quantities of illicit funds from outside the country but continues to be a small player...
19 February 2020 • By Jotham Lian

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Tax scam promising 8% bonus revealed

A new tax scam targeting victims of recent natural disasters has been uncovered by the ATO, so agents and their...
14 February 2020 • By Jotham Lian
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Commissioner’s deceased estates fix trudges along

Legislative instrument that will allow tax agents to access deceased clients’ tax data has now been tabled in...
13 February 2020 • By Jotham Lian
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AAT affirms grounding of former tax agent amid bankruptcy probe

A former tax agent, with debts of over $36 million, has had his appeal to overturn an order preventing him from...
12 February 2020 • By Jotham Lian
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$1,080 tax offset saved rather than spent, new survey shows

Australian taxpayers were more likely to save their $1,080 tax offset rather than spend it, a new survey has found.
11 February 2020 • By Aidan Curtis
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‘Don’t be too clever’: Clients warned on CGT MRE changes

Clients affected by changes to the main residence exemption have been urged to be “very careful” when attempting to...
10 February 2020 • By Jotham Lian
ASIC
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ASIC sounds warning on ‘unrealistic and unsupportable’ cash-flow assumptions

Auditors and company directors have been urged to focus on values of assets and accounting policy choices as ASIC...
09 February 2020 • By Jotham Lian
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Unpacking the tax landscape in 2020

In this episode of Accountants Daily Insider, Professor Robert Deutsch, senior tax counsel at The Tax Institute,...
07 February 2020 • By Tasha Levy