by Shared by Accountants Daily | Oct 23, 2019 | News
According to the ATO’s annual report, the availability of its digital systems for 2018–19 was 99.5 per cent, 0.1 of a percentage point more than the previous financial year. Read more at the Accountants Daily.
by Maja Garaca Djurdjevic | Oct 23, 2019 | News
Earlier this week, the Right to Know coalition launched a public awareness campaign pushing for stronger protection of press freedoms and whistleblowers. In a video aired on Monday night, the coalition depicted a taxpayer who had just found out that the Tax Office had...
by Maja Garaca Djurdjevic | Oct 22, 2019 | News
The Administrative Appeals Tribunal explained that it has no legal framework or standard to determine whether the use of language on the ATO website was misleading, but it admitted that taxpayer Raymond Lacey did make a mistake. “If the current iteration was in...
by Maja Garaca Djurdjevic | Oct 22, 2019 | News
Kent Nguyen was sentenced on Tuesday to three years’ jail for unlawfully creating, operating and benefiting from a fraudulent self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) that did not comply with the relevant protocol, procedures and requirements of superannuation...
by Shared by The Age | Oct 22, 2019 | News
A joint parliamentary committee inquiry into franchising published its report in March but since then the only action from the government has been the establishment of a task force and the publication of an issues paper. Read more at The Age.