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July 28, 2021
The Australian Taxation Office is appealing to all small and medium businesses to make the switch to its new online services business platform, as the deadline for the transition fast approaches.
There is now less than one week before the ATO retires its business portal, which has been used by businesses to interact with the tax office for the past 17 years.
The ATO’s online services for business will officially take its place as the default way for these interactions at the start of next month, after going live at the start of April.
ATO deputy commissioner Andrew Watson told
Source: COSBOA
Small business advocate Peter Strong has announced his retirement as chief executive of the Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) after 11 years.
Strong commenced three months leave in June, with Alexi Boyd stepping in as interim chief executive. Boyd has now been appointed as chief executive of the council, which brings together small business organisations from around the country.
Strong has played a high-profile role in supporting the nation’s small businesses over the past decade, and been intimately involved in key policy areas affecting small business, including industrial relations and vocational training, as well as the introduction of policies such as Single Touch Payroll and e-invoicing.
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