ASIC has reminded small businesses that any large businesses they engage with may need to obtain emissions-related information from them to fulfil their scope 3 emissions reporting obligations.

More than 30 professionals and businesses were announced as winners in the annual Australian AI Awards 2025, held ...

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 ...

On Wednesday (12 November), the ATO withdrew its existing ruling on rental property deductions (IT 2167) and released a new draft tax ruling (TR 2025/D1) and draft practical compliance guides (PCGs), ...

Accountants enter a legal minefield if they provide “finance letters” for clients and should refuse requests to be involved in risk assessments by lenders, says CA ANZ. Members could be sued if a ...

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 ...

A new International Data Corporation (IDC) white paper commissioned by BDO revealed that the average organisation takes over a week to recover from cyber incidents, costing organisations time, money ...

Tax agents across the board are still getting Division 7A wrong by ignoring fundamental concepts or being “too cute” when trying to get around the provision, the ATO says. During the launch of a ...

Australia needs 30,000 additional accounting, audit, and finance professionals over the next three years to meet demand and the professional bodies say revisions to the skilled migrant program are a ...

Moien Khan is the managing director of KonceptM, a Sydney-based chartered accountant and tax agent business, and like many accountants he was forced to question the future direction of his profession ...

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 ...

Confused tax agents waste hours navigating the ATO’s “poorly implemented” client linking process and even the Tax Office’s own staff are bewildered by it, industry members and professional bodies ...