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  1. ATO clarifies application of NALI changes

    and will have much broader application than first thought,” he said. The changes to NALI rules, passed through Parliament last month, are yet to receive royal assent.

  2. ATO claims stellar digital performance, but satisfaction dips

    The community’s satisfaction with ATO performance over the last financial year has taken a hit off the back of users’ perception of online systems despite the Tax Office claiming 99 per cent digital system availability over the same period. The ATO has...

  3. ATO circles privately owned and wealthy groups as audits heat up

    Ortner said the ATO will likely look to bide their time to collect revenue again in the coming months. “Certainly over the last 12 months, you all may have the experience that the ATO has deferred disputes in light of COVID,” he said. “So they are...

  4. ATO chases $172bn in undeclared contractor income

    and construction, cleaning, and courier industries are required to lodge a TPAR annually. After the scheme was extended last year, businesses providing road freight services, information technology services, and security, investigation or surveillance...

  5. ATO changes interpretation around commercial debt forgiveness rules

    determination ruling that a creditor must be a natural person to forgive a debt for reasons of natural love and affection. Last week, the Commissioner of Taxation released Draft Taxation Determination 2019/D9, close to eight months after it withdrew ATO...

  6. ATO cautions accountants on robo-advice spruikers

    to AccountantsDaily: Today the ATO has removed from our website information for SMSF Trustees and advisors we published last week relating to robo-advice. The article contained some inaccurate and unclear information. We regret any uncertainty the...

  7. ATO calls time on debt as business challenges mount

    time to pay’,” Mr Spring said. Director penalty notices are now being issued at the rate of 30-40 a day, the ATO admitted last week, and it had begun reporting debt of $100,000 or more to credit agencies. This followed a series of more than 80,000...

  8. ATO calls out tax advisers still making ‘basic’ errors

    enforcement action. The ATO’s private wealth adviser program is part of the Tax Avoidance Taskforce and was established last year to ensure advisory firms and individual advisers were meeting their own tax obligations. The program sees the ATO use a...

  9. ATO called to drop Part IVA for personal services businesses

    the right thing after having passed the stringent tests of Part 2-42, only to find out that this is not the case.” PSI rules last came into the spotlight in 2009 after the Board of Taxation’s review, followed closely by Dr Ken Henry’s Australia’s Future...

  10. ATO called out over ‘inconsistent’ work-related expenses case

    believing it is inconsistent with established case law and guidance material. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal had last month confirmed that taxpayer Cameron Lambourne, an electronics technician with the Australian Navy, was not entitled to over...

  11. ATO braces for flood of unscrupulous advisers

    companies that have gone into external administration over the period from March to July 2020 compared with the same period last year, a sign that its COVID-19 stimulus measures may have been propping up companies that would normally wind up in any...

  12. ATO boss tells agents to use ‘Kardashian-like influence’ wisely

    that “hasn’t always hit the mark”. The multi-step linking process became mandatory for all ABN holders in November last year and has been derided as “poorly implemented” and an “administrative nightmare” for taxpayers and agents. Practitioners and...

  13. ATO boss doubtful of ‘low complexity, high volume’ practices

    priorities for the ATO, Mr Jordan told delegates at the Institute of Public Accountants’ National Congress on the Gold Coast last week. This promise follows another shaky year for the ATO’s digital systems, with the tax and BAS agent community dealing...

  14. ATO boasts systems' stability despite looming downtime

    the ATO’s new tax agent portal is still currently in beta phase for testing with approximately 100 tax agents since December last year. It is now over a year behind schedule. [email protected]

  15. ATO begins ID crackdown on recalcitrant directors

    by the office. The ATO is contacting the half-a-million directors who failed to get an ID number before the deadline last December and warns that it is taking non-compliance “seriously”. It said the first approach would involve supplying guidance on how...

  16. ATO backs e-Invoicing initiative

    whether or not it is the same company, the technical standard behind the system enables all software to talk to each other.” Last month, Treasury released a discussion paper consulting on the e-Invoicing governance arrangements between the Australian...

  17. ATO backflips on lodgement statistics concealment

    from the tax profession, and will now provide fortnightly updates, including the split between myTax and agent lodgements. Last month, Accountants Daily revealed that the ATO would no longer provide regular lodgement statistics updates, much to the...

  18. ATO awards itself green ticks for performance

    requests, with just 85 per cent finalised within 15 business days against a target of 90 per cent – a mark it exceeded last year. However, in other respects the ATO’s investments in electronic lodgement capability appear to be paying off, with big green...

  19. ATO appeals to Full Federal Court over backpacker tax decision

    The ATO has appealed to the Full Federal Court regarding an earlier decision on the application of the backpacker tax. Last month, in Addy v Commissioner of Taxation, the Federal Court ruled that the minimum 15 per cent tax for working holiday makers...

  20. ATO apologises for Online services downtime

    not impacted.” According to the ATO, the virtual queue — or visitor prioritisation system — was first introduced in April last year to help the Tax Office cope with a surge in users accessing its system following the announcement of COVID-19 stimulus...