ATO reports suggest they are getting tougher on people who have not paid their tax debts, and they now have the right to...
20th March 2012 9:03 AM
I COME across situations that contain so many lessons for so many people, and I am compelled to share one particular...
28th May 2012 4:05 PM
JUNE 30 is fast approaching and there are major changes coming on July 1.
12th June 2012 2:06 PM
THE Australian Taxation Office has rejected suggestions that it had stopped issuing creditors' petitions this year due to...
30th June 2012 12:06 PM
PLUMBERS, plasterers, soldiers and self-managed super funds...which of these things is not like the others?
14th Aug. 2012 10:08 AM
The ATO is warning people to be cautious about arrangements promoting the generation of deductions from purchasing offshore...
01st Oct. 2012 10:10 AM
PEOPLE who prepare their own tax return only have a week until the 31 October lodgment deadline.
26th Oct. 2012 2:10 PM
MORE than $21 billion was given back to Australians in lost and unclaimed superannuation in 2011-12, according to the...
30th Oct. 2012 6:10 AM
THE Byron Bay Cookie Company has gone into voluntary administration only a day after it was revealed it was in trouble with...
07th March 2013 5:03 PM
THE Byron Bay Cookie company is firmly in the hands of liquidators now with the Tax Office successfully preventing the...
19th April 2013 4:04 PM
THE ATO will work with the US and Britain to target tax dodgers after a massive cache of bank account data from tax havens...
13th May 2013 12:05 PM
BUSINESSES that have employees have been urged to get on top of their obligations as the end of the financial year...
25th June 2013 9:06 AM
WHEN I studied tax law in the late 60s or early 70s, it was the old 1936 Act as amended and was at most three-quarters of...
09th July 2013 4:07 PM
BUILDERS, small-business owners and sales managers are under the taxman’s spotlight this year, as part of the tax office’s...
17th July 2013 12:07 PM
AN accountant involved in the scheme to help Glenn Wheatley hide profits from a Kostya Tsyu boxing match has had five...
11th Oct. 2013 3:10 PM
THE ATO continues its campaign to track down the offshore bank accounts of wealthy Australians, amid a global effort to...
22nd Nov. 2013 12:11 PM
THE TAX Office will soon take charge of the Small Business Superannuation Clearinghouse in an effort to cut red tape for...
07th Jan. 2014 2:01 PM
THE Abbott government has begun a review of all tax measures that are hindering the small business sector.
28th March 2014 12:03 PM
ABOUT 4000 Australian groups are on the verge of losing their charity status.
20th Aug. 2014 6:08 AM
COULD you imagine the horror of living out your days on a luxurious island in the Whitsundays?
25th May 2015 1:05 PM
THE ATO will be focusing on unusually high work-related expense claims across all industries and occupations this year...
26th June 2015 7:06 AM
THE ATO is again warning the public to be aware of an aggressive phone scam circulating.
09th July 2015 9:07 AM
THE cost of using the UberX ride-sharing service will increase 10 per cent following a tax office ruling that GST should be...
08th Aug. 2015 9:08 AM
THEY had the warning – agents from the Australian Taxation Office will descend on Gladstone next week to examine returns...
17th Oct. 2015 5:10 AM
THE taxman is waving the big stick but Bechtel workers don’t appear to be going weak at the knees – they are not rushing to...
24th Oct. 2015 5:10 AM
MORE than 200 tax-rorting bikie gang members have had unwelcome surprise visits from police and the Australian Tax Office’s...
02nd Nov. 2015 3:11 PM
AUSTRALIA'S quest to develop a stronger innovation ecosystem has seen a growing focus on the income tax system.
23rd Nov. 2015 6:11 AM
LABOR has slammed the government for trying to block the publication of tax data that shows many major companies pay no tax...
18th Dec. 2015 6:12 AM
120 high income earners drawn into tax scandal as implications of the 'Panama Papers' scandal become clearer.
05th April 2016 5:04 AM
A tax office spokeswoman said the program covered some 15 million Australians and the expansion was a result of recent...
14th April 2016 6:04 AM
A STUDY of corporate regulatory bodies has uncovered widespread misconduct in Australia’s private sector while corporate...
03rd May 2016 5:05 AM
THE head of the Australian Tax Office (ATO) says there will be a review into the tax ruling allowing politicians to claim...
24th May 2016 6:05 AM
A BUNDABERG woman was almost scammed out of $1000 after a telephone call she believed was from the Australian Taxation...
28th June 2016 1:06 PM
Proposed squat toilets for new ATO building not wanted.
16th Aug. 2016 8:08 AM
STANDING at the Capricorn Coast's picturesque Tanby Point, Australian Senator Pauline Hanson launched a tirade.
16th Aug. 2016 10:08 AM
New online compliance system was implemented in July
02nd Jan. 2017 4:01 PM
THE government is plotting a crackdown on “creative” accountants who inflate work-related personal tax deductions.
02nd March 2017 1:03 PM
EBAY has threatened to block Australians from using its platform if the government pushes ahead with its “unworkable”...
18th April 2017 12:04 PM
Deputy commissioner's son was charged over his alleged role in a fraud syndicate that police claim stole more than $165...
18th May 2017 10:05 AM
THE former lover of the ATO deputy commissioner’s son, Adam Cranston, has revealed how she was lavished with luxury...
19th May 2017 8:05 AM
Michael Cranston ruined by son Adam’s alleged fraud, ATO boss tells National Press Club
05th July 2017 3:07 PM
It’s tax time, and the Australian Taxation Office is warning people to be on the lookout for increasingly sophisticated...
05th July 2017 5:07 PM
ADAM Cranston spent more than $200,000 on two Italian racing cars just weeks before he was arrested over Australia’s...
07th July 2017 9:07 AM
IT’S tax time, which means it is also tax scam time for Aussies who often fall victim to emails or messages that claim...
07th July 2017 4:07 PM
RECENTLY collapsed Northern Rivers trucking company Flynn Transport owes more than $800,000 to the Australian Tax Office...
21st July 2017 6:07 AM
Black economy costs ATO millions.
02nd Aug. 2017 10:08 AM
THE Australian Taxation Office will be visiting Hervey Bay this week to give residents all the tools needed to confidently...
16th Aug. 2017 1:08 PM
ATO warns scrapping work-related deductions in favour of a blanket $1000 allowance would be like “detonating a nuclear...
17th Aug. 2017 12:08 PM
INCORRECT tax deductions for work-related car use are putting many Australians on a collision course with the Australian...
25th Aug. 2017 1:08 PM
TAX dodgers, expense fudgers and cash operators can no longer escape the ATO’s all-seeing eye
01st Sept. 2017 8:09 AM
