Funny typos highlight need for proofreading

Typographical, spelling and grammar errors can have unintended consequences as these examples demonstrate, making it important to double-check all business communications prior to publishing. Innocently leaving off a comma or apostrophe can give a written statement an...

ATO strike force has 10k SMEs in its sights

The tax office will visit 10,000 businesses over the next 12 months as it looks to educate and send “a strong message” to businesses operating in the black economy. As part of the $318.5 million federal budget funding boost to the ATO to implement new strategies to...

ATO identifies 5 common GST reporting errors

The ATO has warned taxpayers that it has identified 5 of the most common errors made when reporting GST. These errors make up more than half of overall corrections made to GST reporting and in most cases, the mistakes are due to taxpayer error. When reporting GST, the...

ATO clamps down on work-from-home claims

Many taxpayers conduct some of their work from home. And it is deductions on these home-based activities over which the ATO is cracking down on – hard. The ATO says that record numbers of Australians are now claiming deductions for costs incurred while working from...