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It is imperative that you correctly capture and classify any tax deductions you may be entitled to. 

Your MoneyCommentsPremiumThe tax-time deductions you don’t want to miss this year

As the financial year draws to a close, now is the time to start gathering receipts and making smart decisions to maximise your tax refund. Here are the most often overlooked or misunderstood deductions.

Robert Zammit

The start of a new financial year will usher in a raft of tax and superannuation changes, with almost every Australian affected one way or another. Here’s what changes from midnight.

Your MoneyCommentsPremiumJuly 1 changes to tax, super that affect you and your family

The start of a new financial year will usher in a raft of tax and superannuation changes, with almost every Australian affected one way or another. Here’s what changes from midnight.

Nick Bruining

Your position is unique, so please don’t take financial advice from your colleagues on site. Context is everything.

Your MoneyCommentsPremiumWork FIFO? Here’s your essential tax-time tool kit

For WA’s fly-in, fly-out workforce, EOFY isn’t just about ticking the tax-return box — it’s a golden opportunity to assess your financial strategy and set yourself up for long-term security. Here’s how.

Janine Leafe

Australia’s economy as a whole is tipped to expand in 2026. NewsWire / Emma Brasier

TAXPremiumOne tax reform Australia desperately needs

Fresh forecasts have revealed the one tax reform Australia desperately needs, as the country continues to recover from its anaemic growth.

Cameron Micallef

A change in tax policy could see small businesses needing to pay their tax liabilities sooner. NewsWire / Emma Brasier

TAXPremiumMajor tax change impacting millions

Millions of Australians are being urged to check their tax status ahead of a law aimed at recouping $45bn coming into effect in just a few days.

Cameron Micallef

As the end of the financial year rapidly approaches, WA property investors are bracing for the annual ritual of tax time. It’s an opportunity to tidy up your finances and plan for the year ahead. 

Your MoneyCommentsPremiumHow to check your investment loan is still fit for purpose

As the end of the financial year rapidly approaches, WA property investors are bracing for the annual ritual of tax time. It’s an opportunity to tidy up your finances and plan for the year ahead. 

Chris Foster-Ramsay

Compulsory super has been steadily increasing from its original start in 1992, when it was just 3 per cent. 

Your MoneyCommentsPremiumGetting superannuation right is a numbers game

With just a week to go until the start of the new financial year, now is the time to tweak your superannuation settings. Here’s what you need to do right now ...

Nick Bruining

A week today is June 30. There are certain things you can do right up until the last day. And some things you can’t. Here’s why you don’t want to wait, particularly if you’re a high-income earner.

DebtManCommentsDon’t be bitten by tight EOFY deadline to top up your super

DEBTMAN: A week today is June 30. There are certain things you can do right up until the last day. And some things you can’t. Here’s why you don’t want to wait, particularly if you’re a high-income earner.

Bruce Brammall

Got an inheritance coming your way but worried it will affect your Centrelink age pension? Here are the hints and tips you need to beat the system ... and also boost your superannuation.

Bruining Q+ACommentsPremiumHacks you need to bank an inheritance and keep the pension

Q+A: Got an inheritance coming your way but worried it will affect your Centrelink age pension? Here are the hints and tips you need to beat the system ... and also boost your superannuation.

Nick Bruining

Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers says options are open to consideration when it comes to GST changes. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

EconomyPremiumRow erupts over state’s $2.5bn brag

One state feels ‘punished’ by its share of a $95bn pool of money, while another state collects a healthy slice and declares its seventh budget surplus in a row.

Blair Jackson

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TaxPremiumHuge call to lift the GST rate

Australia should slash income taxes and lift the GST to help pay off the nearly one trillion dollars in national debt.

Cameron Micallef

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has proposed overhauling Australia’s tax system. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

POLITICSPremium‘Higher taxes’: Fear after Labor flags reforms

The opposition is warning Labor against hitting Australians with more taxes as Jim Chalmers talks of overhauling the country’s revenue gathering system.

Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has claimed that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese could be exempt from Labor’s proposed super tax. NewsWire / Martin Ollman

FINANCEWhat Aussies really think of $3m super tax

How Australians truly feel about Labor’s proposed “rich tax” has been revealed in a new poll, and the results may surprise you.

Robert White

Division 296 is pitched as a ‘modest’ 15 per cent extra tax on earnings for super balances over $3m. Behind the spin lies a policy that’s complex and potentially unworkable. Here’s how to work around it.

Your MoneyCommentsPremiumTips to dodge $3m super tax (even if you’re not there yet)

Division 296 is pitched as a ‘modest’ 15 per cent extra tax on earnings for super balances over $3m. Behind the spin lies a policy that’s complex and potentially unworkable. Here’s how to work around it.

Raymond Pecotic

Cliff Rocke is a partner at WAIS Insolvency Solutions.

Administration and liquidationCommentsPremiumInsolvencies tipped to rise amid Tax Office crackdown

Insolvency experts have warned that Western Australia looks set for a surge in business collapses as the Australian Taxation Office clamps down on ageing debts.

Matt Mckenzie

Impersonation scam losses have increased massively this year. NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar

FINANCEPremiumDon’t do this first thing in the morning

Aussie taxpayers have been warned about sophisticated tax scams designed to catch you out over your morning coffee.

Brendan Kearns

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NEWSCouple on $200k living in social housing

Social housing tenants in one state are earning far above what they should to qualify for the homes, with one couple on $200k paying just $200 a week in rent.

Blair Jackson

Tax and super? It’s a mess! Here’s how to know which parts of your superannuation are safe from the taxman and when you might be hit with a bill, depending on when you access your nest egg.

Bruining Q+ACommentsPremiumA quick-fire guide to how your super savings are taxed

Q+A: Tax and super? It’s a mess! Here’s how to know which parts of your superannuation are safe from the taxman and when you might be hit with a bill, depending on when you access your nest egg.

Nick Bruining

Australians are not using the first home super saver scheme. NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar

Superannuation‘No Boomers’ super app tackles housing crisis

A ‘No Boomers allowed’ superannuation product is taking aim at the housing market, trying to get more Aussies into the market through a little used scheme.

Cameron Micallef

VGW founder Laurence Escalante

StartupsCommentsPremiumWorries super wealth tax could hit startup funding

The Federal Government’s proposed earnings hit on superannuation balances over $3 million has been described as a threat to the emergence of new unicorns such as WA-based gaming group Virtual Gaming Worlds.

Sean Smith

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FINANCEBig mistake Aussies make with tax return

Australian taxpayers are tipped to cost themselves hundreds of dollars by making this one simple mistake at tax time.

Cameron Micallef

Laurence Escalante’s bid company has been registered in Guernsey.

Mergers and AcquisitionsCommentsEscalante set to shift VGW empire to tax haven

Laurence Escalante’s bid to take full control of the Virtual Gaming Worlds online casino empire also involves shifting the company behind the bid to a haven with no corporate tax.

Daniel Newell

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - June 4, 2025: Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers holds a press conference at Parliament House in Canbera.NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Federal politicsCommentsChalmers pushes on with super tax but opens door for Greens

Jim Chalmers plans to push ahead with his proposed increased tax on superannuation in the form already rejected by Parliament but concedes the reality of the Senate means the Government may need to compromise.

Katina Curtis

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NEWS‘Broken’: Single mums financially abused

Ex-partners are still weaponising child support payments against a shocking number of single mums, and the system is failing to stop it.

Summer Liu