Commissioner of Taxation Rob Heferen has warned taxpayers who repeatedly refuse to pay debts or engage with the ATO that it will be "moving to urgently deploy its full powers". In a recent address at ...

Accountants enter a legal minefield if they provide “finance letters” for clients and should refuse requests to be involved in risk assessments by lenders, says CA ANZ. Members could be sued if a ...

Jennifer Madigan, director of FBT risk and governance for the ATO, has outlined some of the common mistakes that employers are making and what the Tax Office's compliance approach is towards FBT this ...

In the right circumstances, salary packaging a vehicle can benefit both the employee and the employer, but there are certain requirements to maximising these benefits. In this article, we’ll discuss ...

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Tax agents across the board are still getting Division 7A wrong by ignoring fundamental concepts or being “too cute” when trying to get around the provision, the ATO says. During the launch of a ...

A new International Data Corporation (IDC) white paper commissioned by BDO revealed that the average organisation takes over a week to recover from cyber incidents, costing organisations time, money ...

Australia needs 30,000 additional accounting, audit, and finance professionals over the next three years to meet demand and the professional bodies say revisions to the skilled migrant program are a ...

Moien Khan is the managing director of KonceptM, a Sydney-based chartered accountant and tax agent business, and like many accountants he was forced to question the future direction of his profession ...