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AFSA has issued the 2015-2016 Personal Insolvency Practitioner Compliance Program outline. Read the full article here or click the link below.

https://www.afsa.gov.au/practitioner/regulation-of-practitioners/insolvency-practitioner-compliance-program-2015-2016

Dr Warren Mundy's overview of the Productivity Commission's draft report on Business Set-Up, Transfer & Closure as it relates to insolvency. Read full article here.

Dr Warren Mundy's overview of the Productivity Commission's draft report

dioThe old saying is that there are two certainties in life: death and taxes. However, the second part of that equation is looking less certain, with the Australian Taxation Office owed more than $35 billion.

A new report from the inspector-general of taxation, Ali Naroozi, has found that the amount of money owed to the Federal Government is rising fast, despite also revealing a large number of complaints about aggressive debt collection practices.

ATO data show the tax man was owed $35.3 billion in 2013-14, which is equivalent to nearly 2.3 per cent of Australia's annual economic output that year.

The amount of tax debt outstanding was up 9.7 per cent on the previous financial year.

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Debt owed to the Tax Office has soared to $20 billion.

A tougher approach to debt collection from the Australian Taxation Office is sending small businesses to the wall, a new report by the Inspector-General of Taxation has found.

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