Business

Accountants relied on heavily as NSW opens COVID-19 grant program

Applications for a one-off, tax-free grant of up to $15,000 are now open to NSW businesses, with accountants to play a...

19 July 2021 • By Jotham Lian

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Business

Victorian ombudsman finds 12,000 businesses ‘unfairly denied’ COVID-19 grants

About 12,000 Victorian businesses could now be eligible for retrospective COVID-19 grants of up to $10,000 after the...

28 April 2021 • By John Buckley

Business

ASIC extends COVID-19 record of advice relief

The corporate regulator’s record of advice relief measure has been extended to 15 October, with an option to withdraw...

16 April 2021 • By John Buckley

Business

What can we expect after the last COVID-19 initiative is withdrawn?

There’s been much written about what’s likely to happen after the federal government finally withdraws all the...

31 March 2021 • By Glenn Crisp, Jirsch Sutherland

Business

Government extends another COVID-19 lifeline to the arts

The additional funding comes just days before JobKeeper winds up at the end of the month, with one in five recipients...

26 March 2021 • By John Buckley

Technology

‘Cyber reality check’: COVID-19 sees a rise in data breaches

While data breaches surged as a result of expedited digitisation due to the pandemic, organisations have yet to...

16 March 2021 • By John Buckley

Business

Financial complaints ombudsman details COVID-19 disputes

Australia’s financial complaints regulator received more than 11,000 complaints related to COVID-19 since its pandemic...

11 March 2021 • By John Buckley

Business

Firms to ‘strongly encourage’ staff to get jabbed

Accounting firms of all sizes have begun crafting vaccination guiding principles of their own following government...

02 March 2021 • By John Buckley

Business

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

A stronger-than-expected first-half performance will see the big four firm return another portion of COVID-19 pay cuts...

25 February 2021

Business

How Xero’s accounting and bookkeeping community fared in COVID-19

In this week’s episode of Accountants Daily Insider, Xero’s chief product officer, Anna Curzon, joins host Jotham Lian...

18 September 2020

Business

Key lessons for accountants from COVID-19

For many of us, it seems like an eternity since restrictions were first imposed in March. Every aspect of life has...

04 September 2020

Tax

ATO, tax agent COVID-19 scams on the rise, warns mid-tier

ATO scams are continuing to rear their ugly head, with a mid-tier warning that tax agent numbers are now being used by...

01 September 2020

Regulation

Leave entitlements during COVID-19 – What you need to know

Promoted by ADP Australia and New Zealand Get up to speed on changes to leave entitlements and plan ahead to meet your...

18 August 2020 • By ADP Australia and New Zealand

Business

Navigating 2020 – business recovery in the age of COVID-19

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12 August 2020 • By CPA Australia

Tax

Early tax time lodgers cautioned on COVID-19 variables

Taxpayers chomping at the bit to lodge their tax returns have been urged to hold off for at least a few weeks as...

30 June 2020

Business

KPMG repays COVID-19 pay cuts on the back of solid FY20 results

KPMG will repay staff a portion of their 20 per cent pay cuts after performing better than expected during the...

23 June 2020

Business

How businesses can rebound on the other side of COVID-19

The halfway mark of the government’s COVID-19 stimulus measures is approaching and the conversation is beginning to...

12 June 2020

Business

TPB proceeds with COVID-19 registration fee hike

Practitioners looking to register or renew their agent registrations in the new financial year will face a fee hike as...

04 June 2020 • By Jayne Cruz