Australian laws fall well short of protecting women from an abusive partner’s debts by adopting a US law removing their liability.
- Professor and Founding Director of UNSW Tax and Business Advisory Clinic, UNSW
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.
The Tax Office has been writing off hard-to-collect debts for years, but it hasn’t had the power to do it. Unless we give it that power, it’ll be forced to push vulnerable Australians into debt.
The Low and Middle Income Tax Offset was a flawed idea that gave us a tax cut only after we had filled in our tax forms. Now that it’s gone our tax bills are up to $1,5000 higher.
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.
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Australia’s tax relief rules are outdated.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.
Some tax deductions for the cost of managing tax affairs exceed $1 million, but high wealth individual\s can write off the expense in other ways.
Sole traders helped by UNSW Tax Clinic who were behind on their quarterly Business Activity Statements were on average seven years behind.
The High Court of Australia has given the Australia Taxation Office a green light to use leaked information about Glencore and offshore tax havens.
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