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Wishing you a safe and enjoyable festive season!🎄Our offices are shutting now and will reopen at AEDT 9 am on Thursday, 2 January 2025. Our call centres are unavailable, but you can use our online forms by logging into your My Profile account. For more: ow.ly/tSYa50UsgAh

We've finalised our guidance on the 8 new obligations in the Tax Agent Services (Code of Professional Conduct) Determination 2024. We encourage you to familiarise yourself with our guidance so you can be prepared. Find out more: ow.ly/16Lw50UvIQT

What specifically does professional indemnity insurance cover? What is the process of renewal compared to initial registration? These are some of the questions we answered during our ‘Know your obligations’ webinar. Find out the answers to these and more: ow.ly/lAZM50UuFYf

Our offices will be closing on 24 Dec at AEDT 11:30 am & will reopen on 2 Jan at AEDT 9 am 2025. Our call centres will be unavailable during this time, but our website will still be available. Log into your My Profile account to use our online forms: ow.ly/T68r50UrtXx

Don’t forget from 1 Jan 2025, large tax practitioners with more than 100 employees must comply with the 8 additional obligations as part of the Tax Agent Services (Code of Professional Conduct) Determination 2024. Get prepared, find out more: ow.ly/LBP050Urt1h

View our Chair, Peter De Cure’s end-of-year message, as he reflects on the past year & your important role as a tax practitioner: ow.ly/5Vz550UpCe6

Our last webinar for the year, ‘Compliance - the year in review', had over 3,700 tax practitioners in attendance. We delved into our compliance outcomes for the year & cases we investigated. If you missed it, watch our recording and still earn free CPE: ow.ly/xxMP50UoMx1

Having your identity stolen, losing all your data, and being attacked by ransomware and other malicious threats don’t just happen on unlucky days. Make sure you protect yourself and your practice by following our tips: ow.ly/EGb050UpC45

We had over 3,500 people join our ‘Know your obligations’ webinar this week. Did you miss it? Our recording in now available for you to watch and still earn free CPE. Learn about your ongoing registration obligations as a tax practitioner. Watch it now: ow.ly/pAW450UoMlc

Our final TPB eNews edition for the year is out! Read about: 🎄our Chair’s end of year message 🎄new Code Determination obligations starting 1 Jan 2025 🎄transitional provisions for complying with the disqualified entity obligations ceasing. Read it now: ow.ly/I13v50Umcjg

Don't forget the transitional provisions for complying with the disqualified entity obligations will cease from 31 Dec 2024. This means you must comply with Code items 15 and 16 from 1 Jan 2025. Find out how to comply: ow.ly/Z1LR50Uo1V6

Our final webinars for the year are on tomorrow! Join us at AEDT 11:30 am – 12:30 pm for our ‘Know your obligations’ webinar. At AEDT 2 pm – 3 pm, we’ve got our ‘Compliance - the year in review' webinar. Register now & earn free CPE: ow.ly/ef7J50Umcfs

The holiday season is the perfect time for cyber criminals to attack your practice – they look for vulnerabilities in your computer software to gain unauthorised access and steal your and your clients’ information. Find out how to prevent this: ow.ly/8HN650Umc9s

A tax agent has breached the Code of Professional Conduct by failing to adequately supervise an employee under their control. Lack of supervision resulted in the employee misappropriating over $319,000 of client refunds! Find out what happened: ow.ly/GL2S50UlntL

How do you know you’ve completed the right course or units to become a registered tax practitioner when there are so many to choose from? Easy – use our qualifications check tool to help you: ow.ly/M3WM50UhPxz

Join us for our final webinars for the year! On 10 Dec at AEDT 11:30 am – 12:30 pm, we’ve got our ‘Know your obligations’ webinar. At AEDT 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, join us for our ‘Compliance - the year in review' webinar. Register now, earn free CPE: ow.ly/OpsE50UhPvs

Is your tax practitioner renewal application due around the holiday period? Get it out of the way by lodging early. You can lodge your renewal 90 days before it expires. If you’re not sure when your expiry date is, check our TPB Register to find out: ow.ly/I5YN50UhPsY

If you work for a tax practice & this entity hasn’t met their personal tax obligations, will this affect your personal registration? This is one of the questions we answered during our ‘Personal tax obligations’ webinar. Find out the answer to this & more: ow.ly/AKfz50UgnXQ

Thank you for your feedback on our draft Determination information products. We appreciate you taking the time to offer your valuable suggestions. We’re carefully reviewing all feedback received and aim to finalise our position before the end of the year: ow.ly/qcIC50UfvIY

Under the new obligation, keeping proper client records (s30), do you know what the record keeping requirements are in order to comply? There are a few. Find out what they are by reading through our frequently asked questions on the Code Determination: ow.ly/JZhV50Uco1q