Glynn Flaherty, Director of Payroll Matters Pty Ltd has been providing a running update on JobKeeper and all that is happening, through updates in the Premier Payroll Administrator Email Alert Service.
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Navigating COVID-19 without a compass: what does the future hold?
“What does it all mean?” asked IPA’s Vicki Stylianou, in a rare intersection of philosophy with accounting. When the IPA Group Executive, Advocacy & Technical posed this question in her…
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Sole practitioner saves up to 60 hours a month on data (re)entry
“As a sole practitioner with a client base of 1700 clients, you can see why it was important to have a good program.” And for Debbie, there was one reason…
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Building a coaching culture in tax & accounting organisations
Sarah Elliott, co-founder of Intend2Lead, says her work as a coach allows her to teach & cultivate more evolved leaders in tax & accounting.
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Getting your small business ready for STP reporting
From 1 July 2019, Single Touch Payroll (STP) reporting will become mandatory for all employers. Small businesses (ie those with fewer than 20 employees) have previously been exempt, but will now…
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Are you on top of the basics? Five lessons for when your client calls
Ready for some straight talk? If you’re a tax practitioner, you need to be across these five topics and if you’re not, you need help, warns tax expert Ray Cummings.…
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Should You Download COVIDSafe? Consider These Privacy Concerns First
The Australian Government recently launched COVIDSafe, a contact tracing app which continues to raise concerns about privacy issues and cyber security.
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Australian superannuation stimulus poses risks for fund trustees
The Australian government’s COVID-19 superannuation reforms pose a number of challenges and pitfalls for fund trustees, an industry official warned.
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Supporting Clients Through COVID-19
With massive government stimulus measures on offer to help Australian businesses ride the COVID-19 fallout, CPA Australia’s Gavin Ord, manager of business and investment policy, warns that taking advantage of these offers without professional advice could be a costly mistake. Whether it’s to fast-track access to payments or to alert clients to potential traps, never has good advice been more valuable.
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Parliament passes JobKeeper Payment legislation
Legislation to implement the Government’s “JobKeeper Payment” scheme was passed by both houses of parliament late on 8 April 2020. The package of four Bills seeks to provide the framework to implement the plan announced by the Prime Minister on 30 March 2020.
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