by Slye Joy | Sep 7, 2018 | News
According to ATO assistant commissioner Kath Anderson, the new method has fraudsters initiating a three-way phone conversation between the scammer, the victim and another scammer impersonating the victim’s tax agent.“One recent example had a taxpayer unfortunately...
by Slye Joy | Sep 6, 2018 | News
The Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian government (BETA) found that, in its trial of 2,277 tax agents, those who received a letter notifying them of higher than expected work-related expense claims for clients had reduced their average client claim by...
by Slye Joy | Sep 5, 2018 | News
The IPA said Gary Pflugrath will be appointed to the role of executive general manager of IPA program and qualifications.He will be leading the IPA program as well as overseeing the learning and development framework of the IPA and provide further insight into its...
by Slye Joy | Sep 4, 2018 | News
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said in a statement that assistant treasurer Stuart Robert will be responsible for financial services, and will be assisting across the portfolio on matters including tax legislation and administration.In addition, Mr Robert will be...
by Slye Joy | Sep 3, 2018 | News
Speaking at the National Small Business Summit in Sydney last week, Mr Jordan said the ATO said there are two ambiguous areas that he said that ATO would love to have codified.The first ‘grey area’ is concerned with defining whether a worker within a small business is...
