Phasing out of Special Purpose Financial Statement reports is in motion. How well is your business prepared for the new statutory reporting framework? … Read More

Just how to tax the digital economy has been a sore point for the international community since BEPS’ inception.  And it was only one a year ago at the IFA Congress, that the OECD’s Pascal Saint-Amans and IFA President Porus Kaka were both lamenting the continued lack of global consensus on implementing BEPs Action 1. […] … Read More

Australian companies facing their second year of reporting under new anti-tax avoidance laws are being warned to avoid inconsistencies with publicly available business information, reports the Australian Financial Review.  Obligations under the ATO’s base erosion and profit shifting action plan rules (BEPS) include local and country-by-country filing, with fines of up to $525,000 for anyone providing incorrect or […] … Read More

Thomson Reuters’ Director of Product Management ANZ,  Nicholas Wong, spoke to Accountants Daily about the future of MS Excel in the tax and accounting sphere. While most organisations are moving away from Excel as a tool to collect data, Wong is hesitant to predict the death knell of Excel over the next decade. “There will always be a […] … Read More

Finally, we have some certainty about the corporate tax rates. Parliament recently passed legislation and the fate of other proposed changes has also been settled. Read our summary of what this means for businesses in Australia. … Read More

GST Streamline Assurance reviews, the latest addition to the ATO’s whole-of-tax compliance framework, is placing a heavy burden on corporate tax teams. We look at some of the recent developments and how the industry can be better equipped to deal with this latest wave of compliance changes ahead of the Corporate Tax Association's GST & Indirect Tax Intensive in October. … Read More