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ATO cracks down on crypto

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... cryptocurrency investors to report capital gains and losses in their tax returns after fears investors may think they are tax-free. The ATO estimates that 600,000 taxpayers have invested in crypto assets in recent years and will be writing to 100,000 ...

Advice practices set to benefit from tax cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2021
... allocating $10 million over four years on the small business deregulation agenda, while small businesses in dispute with the ATO will get a fairer go. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) will now have greater powers to pause or change debt recovery ...

No early super release for DV survivors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... receipts by $110 million over the forward estimates period and payments by $27 million over the forward estimates period, as ATO funding is no longer required. Overall, it's expected to cost the government about $83 million. When proposed, the measure ...

What to expect from the budget

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... of the budget the government will allow small businesses to apply to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to pause or modify ATO debt recovery actions where the debt is being disputed in the AAT. While the government clearly wants to make things easier ...

ATO seeks IT contractors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... Taxation Office will approach the market for three major managed services contracts, as it looks to refresh its IT systems. The ATO will look for contractors in: centralised computing; ender user technology, and enterprise service management centre. ...

Rise of the mega funds continues

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... Australia's retirement savings managed by just 12 funds, new research shows. KPMG's annual Super Insights report analysed APRA and ATO data and found that once the mergers that have been previously announced are finalised, 77% of member accounts will ...

Business registration to be updated

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021
... one location, bringing together ASIC's 31 business registers and the Australian Business Register onto a new system at the ATO. Under MBR, the ABRS will allow business owners to register through the Australian Taxation Office rather then the current ...

ATO quizzed on readiness for stapling

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... but maintained its readiness for a July 1 go-live. Appearing before the Senate Economics Legislation Committee yesterday, ATO assistant commissioner Larissa Evans said the manual checks with ATO for an employee's old account would take "minutes". ...

Mercer calls for delay to super reforms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
... which payroll officers will need to register an individual employees' information with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will be manual until 1 July 2022, at which time it will switch to a digital system. "We would recommend delaying the whole ...

Hostplus wins mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
... accounts with over $6000 to Hostplus after a tender process conducted pre-COVID. It will return the sub-$6000 accounts to the ATO. "We went through a competitive tender process pre-COVID but the SFT [successor fund transfer] was put on hold last year," ...