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Most employers that offer salary packaging, currently pay superannuation on the “pre-packaged” salary amount, ie. prior to the deductions for salary packaged items. This treatment, therefore, means that compulsory superannuation is based on an amount inclusive of salary packaged superannuation, so for these employers, the changes will have no impact.

Analysing M&A activity over the past 18 months we’ve drilled down to find what makes companies successful and attractive to investors.

As businesses continue to navigate the influx of Government reform, there’s also a lot of change coming from the ATO. Customer-Owned Banking Institutions – also known as mutual banks and credit unions – are the current focus.

The seven-year Technology Roadmap for Aged Care recently released by the Aged Care Industry Technology Council (ACIITC) talks about a technology enabled future for consumers, workforce and providers.

Your retail baby is growing up. The retail world is changing. You aren’t as young as you used to be, but you aren’t ready to walk away.

It is clear from our 2017 survey of Australian Family Businesses that a significant number of family businesses see increased gender diversity in leadership as important.

In February 2018, new Privacy Laws will come into place introducing mandatory data breach notifications to inform when a data breach has occurred.

Too often the earlier adopters of technology that incorporate new sustainable materials and/or construction practices in their projects, have found it difficult to access funding due to the perceived higher risk of not applying a ‘mainstream’ approach.

There has been much media recently surrounding vacancy rates and the demise of local retailers, with rents of large shopping centres pushing smaller retailers out, and the larger centres and online retailers driving consumers away from the traditional high street retail strips.

The Australian Government has introduced a new funding system for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the ‘ASIC Industry Funding Model’, which will pass on greater compliance costs to Australian businesses.

New technology can free up tax professionals to take on a strategically influential role and generate the analytical insights and real-time information to support this. So how can a tax function take advantage of the changes ahead?

Have you ever struggled with determining the correct tax treatment of different travel costs for your employees? Were the employees travelling on business, living away from home, or perhaps they relocated?