PLS

Your individual clients have long been warned about personal identity theft, and advised to keep information such as passwords, their tax file number and bank account details closely guarded secrets. It has been shown that even social welfare payments can be scammed should criminals get hold of personal details, as many tabloid current affair reports

• 6 September, 2017

The ATO has recently advised that when a practitioner firm’s software is ready to make a successful transition to the practitioner lodgment service (PLS), there are some checks practitioners should first make. Desktop software The ATO advise that your AUSkey credentials must be up-to-date, and lodgment permissions assigned to you and your staff, before using

• 19 July, 2017

The ATO has published what pre-fill information is available for this Tax Time. It says practitioners can use its pre-filling service to cross-check information provided by your clients with data held by the ATO. This will help ensure the accuracy of returns. ATO announces what’s new in pre-filling Pre-filling information is available through the Tax

• 11 July, 2017

The methodical form-by-form closure of the electronic lodgement service (ELS) gateway has just commenced. From early April this year, for example, 2017 and future FBT returns will only be able to be lodged through the ATO’s new practitioner lodgement service (PLS). The in-coming principal electronic lodgment channel for tax practitioners, the PLS is the result

• 3 April, 2017

Ramez Katf, chief information officer at the ATO, writes to tax practitioners in relation to last week’s system outrage outage. ATO comments on the latest system outage “The ATO clearly understands the impacts we have had on you and your businesses, so it is with great disappointment that I must now write to you and

• 8 February, 2017