If you earn less than $60,000, you may be eligible for free tax help. But there is more we could do to help everyone – including struggling sole traders or small businesses – get the advice they need.
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Most Australians pay tax agents because they see it as easier and a way to maximise tax refunds. Yet our survey found most people who have used the myTax site found it easy, and plan to use it again.
Up to one in five Australian adults owns cryptocurrency. A tax expert (and crypto owner) explains what you need to know about claiming losses on your tax return, and a possible discount on your gains.
The co-hosts of the ‘Taxes for the Masses’ podcast explain the upside and downside of all those credits and deductions.
Tax advisers are more likely to act as “tax exploiters” for wealthy clients but “tax enforcers” for the rest of us.
While the Treasury secretary says House Democrats lack a ‘legitimate’ reason for demanding Trump’s tax returns, a former IRS attorney explains that the law says otherwise.
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Research Fellow of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, Lecturer Taxation, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Accounting, The University of Texas at Austin
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