ATO

  Federal Budget night announced an increase in the instant asset threshold, and also an extension of which businesses could access the measure. Now the Treasury Laws Amendment (Increasing and Extending the Instant Asset Write-Off) Bill 2019 has achieved Royal Assent. (And it did so on 6 April, so your affected clients may appreciate the

• 23 April, 2019

  Tax & Super Australia reported recently that the failure of the Superannuation Guarantee Amnesty to pass into law has led to a problem — namely, that employers who came forward after the announcement of the amnesty, via a media release in May 2018, on the expectation of enjoying the amnesty’s benefits, found themselves facing

• 18 April, 2019

  It’s known by a variety of names, such as the black economy, or even the cash or hidden economy. But whatever the label, its existence is a pebble in the ATO’s shoe that it is forever looking to prise out. As part of that ongoing effort, the revenue agency has settled upon different sets

• 17 April, 2019

Online services for agents The ATO’s “Online services for agents” is a new secure system to access services you use in the tax and BAS agent portals. Online services for agents includes new features and functions not available in the portals, however the ATO says it will retain features that practitioners have nominated as being

• 17 April, 2019

  Some members may be concerned by the recent statement of the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) that it will be requiring tax agents, who have had a complaint made against them, to try and resolve the complaint within 72 hours of the tax agent being advised of the complaint by the TPB. This announcement has

• 11 April, 2019