the Australian taxation office

THE AUSTRALIAN TAXATION OFFICE

Superannuation

ISA argues for empowerment of unions and funds

Industry Super Australia wants unions and industry funds empowered to act as agents of the Australian Taxation Office to pursue employers who don’t meet their superannuat...

Policy & Regulation

Tax practitioners may face EUs and permanent bannings

Tax practitioners may find themselves facing a similar array of sanctions to that confronting financial planners including enforceable undertakings and permanent bannings...

Policy & Regulation

Fake tax agents a risk during tax time

The Australian Tax Office is warning taxpayers to look out for people posing as tax agents who aren’t registered with the Tax Practitioners Board....

Policy & Regulation

Gov needs to fix system outage redress

The Scheme for Detriment caused by Defective Administration is being reviewed by the government and the IPA says it needs to be fixed to better help accountants and tax p...

Policy & Regulation

Heard about bad planners, what about tax practitioners?

The Tax Practitioners Board has revealed it is investigating the activities of 350 practitioners over suspected “high risk behaviour”....

Financial planning

Australians losing out from multiple super costs

Australians are losing $6.5 billion on unnecessary costs such as fees and subscriptions, prompting Rest to encourage them to check their bank and superannuation statement...