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  1. Q&A: Matthew Taylor talks about selling practices

    selling practices, is there much activity in the market right now? There has been increased buyer and seller activity in the last 12 months - this has come off the back of some extremely low turnover. There is a significant amount of buyers in the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business
  2. Two-speed economy hitting SMEs, says MYOB

    confidence in their revenue performance, business operators have reported increasing pressure on their operations over the last five years. The survey highlighted a number of leading pressures like fuel prices, cash flow, price margins and the timing of...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Staff Reporter
    • Category: Business
  3. Latest AFSL crackdown a warning to accountants

    Following licence cancellations last week, it is clear ASIC isn’t holding back on cancelling AFSLs that don’t comply with their audit requirements, sending a warning to recently licensed accountants. Last week, two financial planners had their AFS...

  4. Specialist, in-house tax roles in high demand for first quarter

    Daily, Brewer Morris partner Mark Pryor said his firm has seen the busiest start to the first quarter of the year for the last three years, mirroring the increased demand for specialised tax roles in the industry. “I think overall, over the last few...

  5. Licensing arm poses another big conflict for CPA

    and standards, will be retired by December this year. CPA Australia confirmed the phaseout in its candidate handbook late last year. Accountants Daily understands several training providers in the market have had to reconsider their offerings in...

  6. Let dodgy clients go: TPB lays down law for tax agents

    at the Accounting Business Expo, TPB chair, Ian Taylor said that while comments made by ATO commissioner Chris Jordan last week had rightly caused angst within the community, it was a timely reminder for registered tax agents to remember their...

  7. Property woes compound for SMSF clients

    Ms Brown said. For several months, even specialist SMSF brokers have been finding the market for SMSF loans challenging. Last year, Thrive Investment Finance owner Samantha Bright said tougher loan-to-value ratios and capital requirements for SMSF...

  8. Accountant-focused licensing providers see adviser spike

    Merit Wealth, an accountant-focused licence owned by Easton Investments, saw a spike in the number of advisers joining last year, with 219 financial advisers becoming authorised representatives in 2018. This was more than triple the number of advisers...

  9. CA ANZ issues mea culpa over exam hiccup

    for its TAXAU120 exam after its remote exam provider, ProctorU, experienced a momentary connectivity issue with its server last Wednesday. According to CA ANZ, over 90 per cent of candidates were able to reconnect and complete the exam. “On behalf of CA...

  10. ATO investigation uncovers ‘serious’ cases of SAN misuse

    of SMSF auditor numbers, and has also identified some more serious cases involving forged audit reports. In March and April last year, the ATO sent a list to approximately 5,000 auditors with funds that had reported them as the auditor on the 2017 SMSF...

  11. Incoming ATO audits tipped to focus on JobKeeper, employer obligations

    audit activity is significantly down on previous years due to COVID-19, JobKeeper reviews have continued to feature over the last few months as the Tax Office looks to weed out fraudulent arrangements. “A lot of them are just the Tax Office looking for...

  12. ATO complaints going nowhere: Tax watchdog probes discrepancy

    issue previously. Inspector-General of Taxation Karen Payne has revealed that her office received 903 complaints over the last financial year where the ATO said it had no record of such complaints being raised with them. However, 86 per cent of online...

  13. TPB eyes sanction spike through joint ATO compliance program

    Board and the ATO look to further develop a joint compliance program. The joint compliance program, which was initiated last year, has already seen the ATO refer 245 matters to the TPB in 2019–20, a 25 per cent increase in referrals from the previous...

  14. Nick Scali repays $3.6m in JobKeeper subsidies

    move comes after Nick Scali reported an 89.9 per cent increase in profits to $40.6 million for the six months to 31 December last year, lifting its interim dividend to 40¢ a share, up from 25¢ last year. In an announcement to the ASX on Monday night,...

  15. KPMG offers COVID-19 ‘thank-you payment’, repays portion of salary cuts

    better-than-expected half-year figures would enable it to repay staff pay cuts introduced during the height of COVID-19 last year. The big four firm’s staff saw a 20 per cent pay cut for four months running from May to August 2020, but the firm...

  16. What’s Happening to Small Business Loans in Australia: Will 2020 Crisis Continue in 2021?

    and it’s not clear when it will get back to the pre-pandemic level. Experts state that this economic recession will last for a long time. Therefore, this situation isn’t going to improve soon. Unemployment. Recent reports state that the unemployment...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Galyna Bulatseskul
    • Category: Business
  17. SME success strategies in the wake of a pandemic

    to changing travel regulations, border controls and vaccination rollouts, mean remaining flexible is the key to success. Last year, we saw many organisations move to company-wide remote working with very little notice. While some had remote working...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Scott Harrington, William Buck
    • Category: Business
  18. Taxpayers urged to keep work-from-home records

    furniture, and other household fixtures that see wear as a result of a taxpayer’s working arrangements. The Tax Office last extended its simplified working-from-home deduction method in January while New South Wales was reckoning with the containment of...

  19. Senate committee suggests separate R&D tax incentive for software

    listed companies to disclose post-capital raising. The select committee on financial technology and regulatory technology last week released its second report on how the federal government could better support research and development (R&D) activities...

  20. Small business tasked to create 210,000 new jobs to stimulate economy

    released new research which shows that, while Australia was one of the fastest-recovering economies in the second half of last year, about 210,000 jobs need to be created across the small business sector by the end of 2021 to drive a full recovery. The...