Tax professionals newsroom
The Tax professionals newsroom helps you keep up to date with the latest news for tax professionals. Our articles are refreshed regularly with information you need to know. Published articles are held in the news archive for 4 months.
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Tax professionals newsletters and alerts
We have 2 weekly newsletters tailored for tax professionals:
- Tax professional news
- Tax professional news – BAS agent edition (separate, condensed newsletter for BAS agents with information tailored to what you need to know).
By subscribing to either newsletter you'll also receive Tax professionals alert emails. Distribution of a Tax professionals alert is reserved for a significant issue that warrants communication in addition to our routine communication channels, including operational dashboards, web updates and weekly newsletter.
Why subscribe
Subscribe to keep informed on the latest updates, including:
- the big-ticket news items that affect you and your clients
- planned system outages
- updates to help support your tax practice
- what’s new in law, rulings and policy.
Remember that reading our newsletter may count as a technical or professional reading activity towards your continuing professional education (CPE). Up to 25% of CPE can be done through technical or professional reading that is relevant to the tax agent and BAS services you provide. You need to record details of the activities you complete in a log bookThis link will download a file.
How to subscribe
- Subscribe to Tax professionals news and alertsExternal Link
- Subscribe to Tax professionals news – BAS agent edition and alertsExternal Link.
Once you've subscribed, we'll send you a confirmation message that you'll receive:
- Tax professionals news (weekly)
- Tax professionals alert email (when warranted).
We’ll only send a Tax professionals alert email in exceptional situations, where we need to communicate directly with you about significant issues, either outside of or in addition to our normal communication channels. This may include a significant issue affecting our Digital services.
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Webcasts and videos
Tax professionals webcasts
Tax professionals webcasts is our series of webcasts for the tax profession. They are held throughout the year and feature panellists from:
- professional associations
- tax agents
- BAS agents
- digital service providers (software developers)
- senior ATO staff.
Videos
We regularly produce videos on a variety of tax-related topics.
To view a complete list of our videos, visit ATOtvExternal Link or YouTubeExternal Link.
You can also view video recordings of our Tax professionals webcasts.
Website and legal updates
You can receive daily, weekly or monthly email updates about new and revised information of interest to you on our website or Legal database.
Find out how to Subscribe to email updates.
Legal practitioners updates
We periodically provide information to state and territory law societies and bar associations for dissemination to their respective members through their normal channels.
interpretation NOW! (iNOW!)
Keep up to date with what courts are saying on statutory interpretation by accessing interpretation NOW! under the ATO Law Aids category on our Legal database.
It provides:
- bite-size commentary on recent statutory interpretation cases and important principles
- simple and practical 'iTips'.
ATO Community
The ATO CommunityExternal Link online forum includes a tax professional category where you can engage with us and each other.
Social media
We are on X, Facebook and LinkedIn, sharing the latest information on tax and industry changes, initiatives, products and services.
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Media centre
Keep up to date with the latest articles, speeches and media releases from us by visiting our Media centreOpens in a new window.
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Tax professionals are invited to email your feedback about our news services.
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