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Whether you use a tax agent or do your own, getting your tax return right is important. Mistakes or fraudulent claims may come back to bite you.
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.
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.
Rather than ending the race to bottom from international profit shifting, the Australian government’s proposed 15% tax rate is likely to entrench it. Here’s why.
Compared with other OECD nations, Australians pay much less tax than some headline statistics suggest.
Tax advisers are more likely to act as “tax exploiters” for wealthy clients but “tax enforcers” for the rest of us.
Australia’s tax relief rules are outdated. Here are three key points for reform.
Fraudsters have managed to exploit security gaps in the federal government’s early release of super scheme. Here’s what to look out for.
The High Court of Australia has given the Australia Taxation Office a green light to use leaked information about Glencore and offshore tax havens.
On Q&A, Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive James Pearson said almost 60% of small business owners in Australia are paid $50,000 or less. Is that right?
In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra, ACTU Secretary Sally McManus said 679 of Australia’s biggest corporations pay “not one cent of tax”. Is that right?
Katter’s Australian Party federal MP Bob Katter said 30% of the Northern Territory’s farmland and 22% of Tasmania’s farmland is foreign-owned. Is that true?
They say forcing private companies to disclose their taxable income will lead to kidnap. But that’s just the beginning of the poor excuses.
A recent decision by the tax office that ride sharing services must pay GST has infuriated Uber. But are they being singled out?
Tax avoidance or tax evasion? One is legal and one isn’t, but there are acres of grey area in-between.
The Henry Tax Review identified 125 taxes within Australia levied by all levels of government. Of those 125 taxes, just 10 taxes raised 90% of all tax revenue. The company tax is the second largest source…
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced long-promised changes to the rules for foreign land purchases and ownership in Australia. There are two key changes. First, the Foreign Investment Review Board…
You may have read reports that the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has introduced voiceprint technology which aims to do away with cumbersome identity-verification processes on the telephone. When you phone…
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Ann Kayis-Kumar is a Friend of The Conversation.Founding Director of UNSW Tax and Business Advisory Clinic, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Accounting, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow of the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub, Lecturer Taxation, RMIT University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Research Director, The University of Western Australia
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Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Professor of Institutional Economics, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Charles Darwin University
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Dean of Business School, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Financial Planning, Deakin University
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Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Accounting, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Tax Law, The University of Western Australia
