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ASIC recommends SMSF reforms

Reverse mortgage lending and retirement

Increasing penalties for white-collar crime

Government debts and your travel plans

Super transfer balance cap: reporting events

Tax return lodgement due soon

Borrowing money in an SMSF

ATO continues its blitz on the sharing economy

Setting up your SMSF

Does your SMSF have a sole purpose

Reportable payments system to be extended

New destination for super complaints

Improvements to GST risk assessment

Three-year audit cycle proposed for SMSFs

Corporate tax rates: recent changes give certainty

Toyota to compensate unfairly dismissed foreperson

Are you an Australian resident?

Garnishee orders may bring home the bacon

Reform of the ABN system

Meaning of independent: Financial advisers

Direction of future tax reform

Small business tax concessions

Crude social media message leads to fair sacking

Alternative dispute resolution process

Taxable SMSF assets double: Is your fund affected?

R&D tax incentive overhaul

How illegal phoenixing affects you

It follows: higher education debts

“Ipso facto” escape hatch prohibited under insolvency reforms

Compensation from the ATO

Cash payments limit coming soon

Paying company debts by instalments

Independent ATO review for small businesses

Super guarantee underpayments: employer amnesty

Downsize to boost your super

Phoenix alert: Government warns directors

Beware of clothing deductions this tax time

Areas of concern for SMSF trustees

Single touch payroll: are you ready?

Growing your super

Tax time focus areas for individuals

IGT review of ATO garnishee notices

Tax time focus areas for businesses

Employer sent to prison for contempt over underpayments

When is early release of super legal

Are you ready for GST on low value goods?

Pre-lodgement compliance review: what you need to know

Got clearance to sell your home?

Budget 2018: What’s in it for you

Uber not an employer

2018 Federal Budget: Special Edition

Strict tests for directors seeking new safe harbour protection

“Egregious” business owner slapped with $226k penalty

Beware of the SMSF death trap

Home is where the GST is

Protecting your customers’ data

FBT: what you should be aware of

It’s FBT time again

SMSF auditors – what you need to know

Employees benefit from new insolvency decision

Worker lawfully sacked for refusing to hand over covert recordings

Super guaranteed

Blowing the whistle: Part 2

Get ready for e-Audits

Airbnb and home sharing: Taxing implications

Blowing the whistle: Part 1

Insolvent trading: new safe harbour defence

Working overseas and your SMSF – Part 2

Worker sacked for abusive Snapchats about manager

Business cash payments on ATO’s radar

Are you signed up to the new small business super clearing house?

Vested in Trusts

Working overseas and your SMSF – Part 1

Bitcoin Part 3 – Cryptocurrency compliance

Tax debts to affect your credit score

Underpayment of workers: are you liable?

Are you caught out by the Age Pension assets test?

InterPrac - Complaints

Pregnant worker not warned before sacking

Foreign businesses and your consumer rights

Risky behaviour: Where are you on the super spectrum?

Financial advice from your accountant

Payroll reporting: a touchy subject

Bitcoin Part 2 – In the bitcoin business

ATO spotlight on visa holders, sponsors and migration agents

First Home Super Saver Scheme update: building on the foundations

Bitcoin Part 1 – personal investors

Government’s not so Happy New Year: legislation hangovers

Is online shopping about to get more expensive?

Travel allowance or LAFHA: which applies to you?

Division 7A – think twice, it’s alright!

Gig firms have taken old-time exploitation and ‘slapped an app’ on it

Be alert to sham self-managed super schemes

Black Economy Taskforce: Who could be included?

Lodge before Christmas closure: you may be due a refund

Super concessional contributions: beware of going over the limit

Taking tax for a ride

Further steps to a fintech nation

Employer to pay worker $139k for unpaid leave over 21 years

Family trusts and the lower company tax rate

Easy money: Is this the end for cash-only business?

Is insurance always super?

From financial health to mental health

Sacked for being “deaf and old”

Pay your way: tax and the sharing economy

Travel deductions to and from rental premises no longer allowed

Super guarantee: are you ready for ATO crack down?

Paving the way to innovate

Excessive card surcharges banned to all businesses

Bullying claim rejected by Fair Work Commission

Who pays GST on new residential property?

Company tax rate cut decreases value of franking credits

Starting a small business? Don’t become a statistic

Watch out: scammers about!

Tax gets social: digital marketing and financial incentives for small business

Cash is no longer king: moving your business out of the cash economy

“Netflix tax” now operational: businesses need to be on their toes

Choosing the correct method of accounting

Avoid an ATO audit: your essential guide to small business benchmarks

Five tips for boosting your super

Want to manage your own super? Setting up an SMSF

In vino veritas: WET rebate reforms and wine industry incentives

Your business website: are the costs deductible?