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Register for a tax professionals ATO open forum to hear about upcoming changes, interact and ask questions.

Last updated 1 July 2024

What open forums offer

Our open forums are interactive webinars with guest speakers from the ATO and the Tax Practitioners Board.

They give you and your staff an opportunity to:

  • hear about the latest updates and upcoming changes to tax and super
  • ask questions.

Your attendance may contribute towards your continuing professional educationExternal Link (CPE) with the Tax Practitioners Board.

Current open forums

You can register here for our upcoming open forums.

Open forum session dates and topics

Open forum sessions

Session topics

An update from the ATOExternal Link

Wednesday 31 July 2024

11:00 am – 12:30 pm AEST

Lodgment Program 2024–2025

  • What to expect with lodgment deferrals
  • Tips to ensure your practice lodges on time
  • When to seek support, and what’s available
  • The do’s and don’ts of lodgment deferrals

Tax Practitioners Board

  • Changes to whistleblower disclosure legislation
  • How to make a complaint

Super guarantee

  • Super guarantee rate increase
  • Super guarantee charge lodgment due dates and reminders
  • Helping clients set up their business to pay super
  • Simple checks for super success
  • Clearing house timeframes
  • Common errors
  • Tax deductibility of the super guarantee charge

An update from the ATOExternal Link

Tuesday 20 August 2024

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEST

Tax Practitioners Board

Expansion of the Code

  • New obligations from 1 January 2024
  • Draft guidance materials for consultation

eInvoicing

  • What is eInvoicing?
  • The benefits of eInvoicing
  • How it works
  • How it benefits your clients
  • How it benefits tax agents, accountants and bookkeepers
  • How to become enabled

Client-to-agent linking

  • Updates on recent deployment to entities with ABNs

An update from the ATOExternal Link

Thursday 19 September 2024

11:30 am – 1:00 pm AEST

Lodgment Program

The importance of 31 October

  • Which clients this date applies to
  • What your practice needs to do before this date
  • Accepting new clients or re-engaging previous clients after that date

Lodge and Pay

  • Director penalty notices – firmer actions

Rental properties

  • Tools and calculators
  • Zero income properties
  • Apportionment
  • Insights from third party data

An update from the ATOExternal Link

Wednesday 16 October 2024

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm AEDT

Lodgment Program

Why income tax return due dates may change

  • Lodgment program due dates for income tax returns
  • Why it’s important to regularly check your clients’ due dates
  • What if your client doesn’t receive the date you expect?

Cyber security

  • Cyber security and ATO impersonation scams

Fringe benefits tax

  • Car fringe benefits
  • Exemption for electric vehicles
  • Limited private use

An update from the ATOExternal Link

Tuesday 19 November 2024

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm AEDT

Lodge and Pay

  • Debt approach update

Small business

  • An update on small business new measures
  • Small business tax-time messages
  • New-to-business support

Crypto assets

  • An overview of crypto assets
  • Recordkeeping and tools
  • Common scenarios
  • How the ATO uses data matching to support clients

 


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