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The ATO has recently advised that, in an effort to maintain accurate data, the Australian Business Register (or ‘ABR’) periodically checks its records for Australian Business Numbers (‘ABNs’) and automatically cancels those that appear inactive. Ultimately, a taxpayer’s ABN may…

The Federal Court has held that superannuation guarantee contributions were payable with respect to the ‘additional hours’ and ‘public holidays’ component of annualised salaries paid by BlueScope Steel, on the basis that these particular components formed part of ordinary time…

All of us have put off tasks at one point or another, choosing to do certain things over others when we know full well what we “should” be doing. Procrastination is something that every human being occasionally does, but it…

Years ago Jason Fried, a software entrepreneur and co-founder of Chicago-based 37signals gave a Ted Talk that stunned not only the audience but organizations worldwide. Fried stated that the office – the space organizations sink thousands if not millions of…

Work-life balance has become a “buzz phrase” in today’s world as a growing number of us are feeling the crunch between taking care of our job duties and tending to our health and well-being. Unfortunately, as Nigel March painfully points…

When the 2015-2016 federal budget was announced, the Australian government stated that some individuals and businesses would now be able to immediately claim a selection of business-related expenses rather than wait to claim these same expenditures over a five year…