Daily Archives: March 1, 2017

Tax Practitioners Board releases updated CPE requirements [76]

The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has released its updated Continuing Professional Education (CPE) policy. This CPE policy incorporates the recent legislative amendments to the Tax Agent Services Act 2009 (TASA) which made CPE a registration renewal requirement for individual tax and BAS agents. The CPE policy includes relevant examples to assist registered tax and BAS…

*Tax Practitioners Board v Hinckfuss – Unregistered tax agent fined $32,000 [75]

In a decision handed down on Tue 12.11.2013, the Federal Court has imposed a monetary penalty totalling $32,000 on a man for providing tax agent services while unregistered and for advertising those services. The Court said the man holds degrees in Commerce and Economics and during the 1990s, was employed in accounting firms and qualified…