26 October 2020 As part of our recent JobKeeper series, our latest brief provides you with some straightforward checklists for those businesses that are either seeking to qualify for the extended JobKeeper scheme or are no longer eligible. The following checklists will assist you in determining on what you need to do (in some cases Read more…

24 September 2020 With the current JobKeeper Scheme due to end this week and the extended scheme starting on Monday 28 September 2020, the following brief aims to provide you with the latest JobKeeper updates. This article will be of particular interest to the following taxpayers: Sole traders, directors, partners (partnerships) and adult beneficiaries wishing Read more…

18 September 2020 In July 2020, the Government announced that the existing JobKeeper Scheme would be extended until 28 March 2021 but with changes to the payment rates and to how the decline in turnover is tested. Legislation to extend the scheme has now received royal assent and this week, both the Treasurer and the Read more…

20 August 2020 IMPORTANT CHANGES TO ELIGIBILITY AND APPROACHING DEADLINES  Employers top five must do actions Businesses participating in the existing JobKeeper scheme must reconsider the eligibility of their employees in order to identify those employees now brought into the existing JobKeeper Scheme under the new 1 July 2020 eligibility test.  Familiarise yourself with the Read more…

22 July 2020 After weeks of uncertainty about the future of the JobKeeper and JobSeeker emergency payments, the Morrison government has announced that it will extend the schemes for a further six months (13 fortnights), but both schemes will be reduced after a Treasury review foresees such subsidies in the current form could act as Read more…

8 May  2020 The latest figures from Treasury show that  approximately 730,000 businesses have now enrolled for the JobKeeper scheme extending to approximately  4.7 million employees. Professional, scientific and technical services are currently the largest industry group to register for JobKeeper, accounting for 14.7 per cent of total enrolments.  The construction industry group was next Read more…

28 April 2020 AMENDMENTS TO THE JOBKEEPER SCHEME It was another busy week of updates to the JobKeeper Scheme with Treasury announcing on Friday a number of changes and the ATO updating its time frame around enrolment and payment for the first JobKeeper payments over the weekend. For everything you need to know about these changes Read more…

Our recent webinar held on Tuesday 28 April 2020 runs through the latest on the JobKeeper Program. The Government released the eagerly anticipated JobKeeper Alternative Decline in Turnover Tests late last week.  For many employers, the JobKeeper Payment scheme is a vital subsidy and the difference of being able to retain their workforce or not.  With the Read more…

The eagerly anticipated alternative decline in turnover test rules for the JobKeeper payment scheme was registered yesterday on Thursday 23 April 2020. As you know, in order to be eligible for the JobKeeper Payment, businesses must have suffered a substantial decline in their turnover. The JobKeeper Rules require a basic test for assessing this decline Read more…

We alert you to the long-awaited release as of 16 April 2020 of the Western Australian Codes of leasing currently in front of Parliament waiting to be passed. Since the National Cabinet announced the Mandatory Code of Conduct on 7 April 2020 for commercial tenancies, each State government has been working on designing their framework for Read more…