by Rod Spicer | Aug 17, 2021 | Business Services, Client Management, Featured Articles, Financial Services
Be on the front foot with our ATO audit activity trend predictions and how to reduce the impact when they come in. Despite the temporary slowing in 2020 of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and other State & Federal government revenue authorities’ audit...
by Rod Spicer | Jul 14, 2021 | Business Services, Client Management, Featured Articles, Financial Services
Every accountant knows that reviews or audits of your client’s tax returns or financial compliance obligations can sometimes be unavoidable. When an audit hits, this is rarely a reflection of the work put into preparing the return and is more often due to a specific...
by Rod Spicer | May 2, 2018 | Latest News
Late last year the Commissioner of Taxation’s Annual Report was released by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). A few key themes were evident in the report including the refinement of deductions being claimed, ongoing targeting of privately owned and wealthy groups,...
by Rod Spicer | May 2, 2018 | Financial Services
When it made Gartner’s Hype Cycle for the Emerging Technologies List in 2017, some said we’d reached peak-blockchain. Gartner predicted that the technology was still 10 years away from going mainstream but if the recent crypto-currency craze is anything to go by, we...
by Rod Spicer | Sep 24, 2017 | Financial Services
The introduction of SuperStream and Single Touch Payroll is prompting new compliance initiatives by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). With real time data to trawl through, the ATO has honed in on employer obligations as the audit activity flavour of the month (and...
