The Tax Practitioners Board will ramp up its fight against unregistered agents who illegally operate outside the system in the new year, chairman Peter de Cure has said. In the TPB’s final webinar for ...

Arjuna Samarakoon was sentenced at at Melbourne County Courthouse to 29 months’ imprisonment with 18 to serve for his role as a tax professional in a company which twice claimed fraudulent refunds ...

Appearing before the Senate Inquiry into consulting services, the big four firm rejected reports made by former staff who worked at the firm about Deloitte cultivating a "dark culture" and that it ...

BMF Group has announced the appointment of Jonathan Yeo and Anne Darmann as directors. Suketu Majithia, Ming Lew and and Justin Gaywood have also been appointed as associate directors. “We are ...

The implementation of the significant breach reporting requirements for tax and BAS agents under the Tax Agent Services Act has sparked considerable debate within the profession. A key issue, which ...

Accounting salaries are accelerating faster than average at 5.3 per cent a year but trail inflation, according to the latest data from job website Seek. Overall, advertised salaries went up 4.8 per ...

The Federal Court has dismissed an appeal by tax agent Nicholas Birdseye to review the Administrative Appeals Tribunal’s decision not to grant a stay of his registration termination. Mr Birdseye had ...

The ATO has revealed it is looking for feedback on its approach to remission of interest and failure to lodge penalties, lodgement and payment deferrals, as well as payment plans. The regulator noted ...

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The Full Federal Court has ruled in favour of taxpayer Steven Bendel in the Commissioner of Taxation v Bendel decision handed down today. The decision, which considered the definition of a loan for ...

Recent research conducted by Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has revealed cash flow to be a common challenge across most small businesses, with the majority noting a significant impact over the past 12 months ...

For a long time, accountants and real estate agents stayed in their lanes. Accountants looked after the numbers, tax, compliance, structuring, while agents brokered the deals. As one of the few ...