Displaying items by tag: Tax Returns

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is warning people to be on the lookout for “tax-themed scam emails”, SMS and calls over the coming months, looking to take advantage of Australians who are “submitting tax returns or waiting for the outcome of an assessment”.

The Australian Taxation Office will take a hard look at those who have been dabbling in cryptocurrencies over the 2017-18 financial year come tax time, a private tax agent claims.

Tax preparation firm H&R Block has deployed software from accounting, payroll and payment systems provider Sage to manage the preparation of approximately 800,000 tax returns annually.

Small business operators are planning to complete their own tax returns, increasingly using cloud solutions rather than relying on older desktop software, according to a new report.

Medibank has assured its customers it is working around the clock to fix a problem with its systems, but has warned the problems are likely to prevent it providing annual tax statements to a majority of its customers by 15 July.

One in five small business owners claim they’d rather clean the workplace toilet than complete their annual tax return, according to a new survey.