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Payday Super - Consultation crucial to avoid an administrative and penalty minefield

25/10/2023

Increased administration and difficult deadlines will be a strong focus of employer and stakeholder concerns as consultation opens on Treasury’s broad design plans for Payday Super.  As part of the 2023-24 Budget, the Federal Government announced that from 1 July 2026, super must be paid on payday, a change that will contribute towards a ‘dignified […]

Update on $3m super balance tax

11/10/2023

The Treasury released the highly anticipated draft legislation on superannuation. This affects superannuation balances above $3m with an increase in tax rate from 15% to 30% from 1 July 2025. Notably, the draft legislation allows negative earnings to be carried forward and offset against future years. Otherwise the Treasury’s proposal is largely unchanged from the […]

Paul Hum, Partner

18/07/2023

Paul leads the employment tax offering at SW, bringing 15 years’ of experience in payroll and employment tax. Over the last few years, he have specialised in assisting Australia’s largest employers with complex payroll related issues, including correctly interpreting of employer’s obligations as well as practically applying in systems and processes. Paul has managed and […]

Employment Taxes update 2023

30/01/2023

At our annual Employment Taxes update for the Not-for-profit, Government and Corporate sectors will reviewed the latest tax news and the employment taxes impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these webinars our tax experts will provided an update on: New and topical developments including recent cases and ATO FBT compliance activity FBT recap and hot […]

Employees vs Contractor ATO risk ratings now out

16/12/2022

The ATO has released two draft publications that focus on employee vs contractor classification for tax and superannuation purposes. Correct classification of an employee is important to ensure that both the business and the worker satisfy their tax and superannuation obligations correctly. On 15 December 2023, the ATO released the following two draft publications for […]

Iggy Moro, Partner

30/06/2022

Iggy has 30 years’ experience in business advisory and public practice, helping many clients achieve their business, financial and personal goals. Along with his team, he likes to be personally involved in the business and investment journey of his clients. Iggy’s experience includes: Iggy has worked with a wide range of businesses, including private, multinational, […]

Increase to national minimum wage

15/06/2022

The Fair Work Commission has increased the national minimum wage by 5.2% or roughly $1 an hour to $21.38 an hour. The Hospitality and Tourism sector, along with other hard hit industries like Aviation, has been given a temporary reprieve with the wage increase to apply from 1 October 2022. The wage increase however has […]

Employers note: disruption to ATO service or super payments later this month

03/06/2022

The SW team wish to advise you that the ATO’s Small Business Superannuation Clearing House (SBSCH) online service will NOT be available from 11:30pm on Saturday 25 June to 7:00am on Sunday 26 June 2022 AEST, due to scheduled maintenance. It is important to note, super payments can take up to 7 business days to […]

Superannuation changes 2022/23 webinar

21/04/2022

Are you and your business across the latest superannuation changes come 1 July 2022? With so much change going on for business, Sharon Burke and Janelle McPhee spent time running through the latest superannuation impacts that all businesses need to know before 1 July 2022. There were several modifications to superannuation designed to make it […]

Don’t get caught out by upcoming superannuation changes

07/04/2022

From 1 July 2022, there will be several changes to superannuation designed to make it easier for people to grow retirement savings and create opportunities for those who are younger, older and low-income earners. A number of changes are being implemented that will affect who is required to be paid superannuation, the Super Guarantee (SG) […]