The focus of the Senate Inquiry’s Interim Report into Corporate Tax Avoidance, published last week, was very much on transparency. Its key recommendations included making the new voluntary tax transparency…
One of the four themes in next week’s National Reform Summit, hosted by KPMG, is ‘tax reform in a modern federation’. The federal issue, while not exclusive to Australia, represents…
This country’s well-funded super system is the envy of the world, providing Australians with a sense of financial security and reducing long-term Age Pension pressures on the government. Its contribution…
Tax reform is building a head of steam – last week’s COAG meeting between the Prime Minister and the state premiers had tax issues high on the agenda. But much…
I wouldn’t say I had misty eyes on Tuesday night last week but it was certainly with some nostalgia that I posted on LinkedIn: “Today marks 15 years since the…
You can’t pick up a newspaper these days without seeing some reference to the ‘sharing economy’. Whether it is Uber, Airbnb or a host of other peer to peer operators,…
An end to the year invites a toast. Toast is nearly a contronym. Contronyms are Janus-like words with two opposing meanings. Cleave is a classic. It can mean cling or…
30 June is quickly approaching and private businesses are turning their minds to the next year. However, before the year ends there are some key actions which need to be…
The end of the tax year is rapidly approaching. How best to get your tax return sorted, and crucially, to ensure you don’t pay more tax than you need to?…
There was a time when VAT/GST was regarded as the ‘simple tax’. Those days are long gone. Many indirect tax regimes are becoming increasingly sophisticated – with the result that,…
This week’s Federal Budget was well received by small business, as our colleague David Pring observed on this page yesterday. While we would agree the measures to boost that sector…
