Posted by execva on July 4, 2011
Politicians lie! Who knew??!! After confirming there would be “no change to PSI legislation”, Bill Shorten has simply implemented what was proposed under the PSI changes by attacking construction industry independent contractors via budget changes which require mandatory transaction reporting. What does this mean? That businesses who hire contractors will be required to report all [...]
Categories: Government, legislation
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Tags: Australian Taxation Office, Bill Shorten, business, contracting, Government, independent contractor, mandatory reporting, Robert Gottliebsen, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on November 29, 2010
If you’re a new virtual assistant you’ll want to take up the advice of the veterans and join a few networks. I’ve mentioned on this blog before about the ones here in Australia and there are many overseas networks too. You get some great support, encouragement and advice particularly when starting out. Most networks will [...]
Categories: virtual assistant
| Tags: Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Australia, independent contractor, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on November 22, 2010
It’s not over yet for independent contractors. The Australian Financial Review reported last week the Gillard Government is still committed to a crackdown on sham contracting (ie the misuse of Australian business numbers to avoid tax and superannuation obligations). I’ve blogged before about how on the face of it this is a good thing for [...]
Categories: virtual assistant
| Tags: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra, independent contractor, sham contracting, va, virtual assistant
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Posted by execva on September 25, 2010
Regular readers will remember when I broke the news to the VA industry that the Labor Government had on its agenda proposed changes to PSI Criteria that would potentially affect over 2 million self-employed and independent contractors (updated on 18 August). This week the Australian Financial Review exposed the fact that the ALP has effectively [...]
Categories: virtual assistant
| Tags: Australia, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Australian Labor Party, independent contractor, Labor Government, Trade union
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Posted by execva on August 18, 2010
Since my last post on whether the ALP intends to move ahead with proposed changes to PSI criteria or not for independent contractors here’s an update. Unfortunately, still no news from the ALP’s Craig Emerson – and none from my local ALP member for Maranoa either – despite he was going to “look into it” [...]
Categories: virtual assistant
| Tags: Australian Labor Party, election 2010, federal election, ICA, independent contractor, Julia Gillard, Labor Government, Labor Party, Liberal Party, LNP, personal services income, PSI criteria, Small Business, Tony Abbott
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