Member Articles

Author: Chris Kirkwood Recently, ESV Partners Chris Kirkwood, Geoff Tierney and Tim Valtwies attended Annual Australian Property Funds Industry Forum which was held by Core Property Research in Noosa. This forum is ...

Author: Kurt Baker The Australian Taxation Office (“ATO”) recently issued final ruling TR 2018/5 setting out the Commissioners position on how to apply the central management and control tests when determining the t ...

Author: David Prichard The long-awaited Division 7A amendments have been released as a consultation paper with submissions closing on 21 November 2018. The proposals in the consultation paper do not exclusively follow t ...

Trading names will cease to be displayed on the Australian Business Register from 1 November 2018. ASIC registration will be required to keep these displayed thereafter. Trading names Trading names or business names in ...

Author: Tim Valtwies It’s no doubt that in the last year cryptocurrency prices have been on a volatile ride. Even the most stable of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, which managed to fall in value by as much $2000 in o ...

On 22nd February 2018 mandatory data breach notification (Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme) obligations came into effect. This scheme, arising out of amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), requires organisations to not ...