The Tax Office is targeting the growing number of people making a living or supplementing their regular income from the sharing economy.

Face-to-face fundraising is here to stay, but while it's effective for charities, there are more effective ways to give.

Fast-fashion retailer is one of a growing number of multinationals locking in their Australian tax.

• WELL HEELED

If you're letting a property to tenants, it's important to know what you can and cannot claim.

Tax cuts promised from Friday July 1 will fail to arrive for up to a year after the Tax Office confirmed it won't be changing its tax schedules to accommodate the prime minister.

Claims of a boost to living standards from the government's planned company tax cuts rest largely on a dramatic reduction in tax avoidance, a new analysis shows.

As the start of the financial year approaches there is always a raft of changes in taxes and thresholds.

• WELL HEELED

Making sure you're financially organised is the key to ensuring you maximise your tax return and receive your refund as soon as possible.

Amid the mid-year stocktake sales and car dealership runouts is a notion that it is rather important - to sort out private health insurance before June 30.

• TAX TIME

Many people will make spontaneous donations to charity before the end of the financial year, but Bryony Green and others like her will be banding together for more "purposeful and planned" giving.

• ELECTION 2016

That unsettling prickling sensation many of you will be feeling right now is just your hip-pocket nerve reacting as July 2 nears.

• Tax

Each year about 12.4 million Australians claim more $30 billion in deductions against their income, now the ATO is cracking down.

• INSIGHT

For all the fuss about bracket creep, its impact is often overestimated.

• MONEY BRAIN

The end of the financial year is a time for financial reflection and proactive planning.

• WELL HEELED

Many people are quick to complain about how changes to our tax system will affect them, but they won't do anything about it.

• COMMENT

Labor ought to consider reversioning the old 1980's AIDS slogan: "I like sex, but I'm not prepared to die for it."

• TAX

Australian consumers are used to the offshore call centre when dealing with telcos. But would you expect your accountant to outsource your tax return to a cheap outfit overseas?

With just three weeks to go before the end of the financial year, sprinters have limited time to get their financial affairs in order before the taxman comes calling

• WELL HEELED

If you're tossing up whether to work for a start-up you need to understand how share options work.

• ASSET CHECK

​With the end of the tax year looming, now's the time to implement strategies to reduce this year's taxation bills.

• EXCLUSIVE

Draft report makes bold claims that have alarmed some of the people it has been circulated to.

Attack a squid and it squirts out ink. That could be why we are suddenly awash with reports on negative gearing.

• COMMENT

''Aussie John'' has got it wrong. Labor isn't planning to hit negative gearing on all established housing overnight.

Taxpayers who negatively gear cost other taxpayers an average of $310 per year, a new analysis of Tax Office data shows.

• BUDGET 2016

An accountant shares tax strategies arising from the 2016 federal budget for individuals, businesses, and employees.

• COMMENT

If Scott Morrison thinks that by offering tax cuts to Australians earning more than $80,000 he is helping average workers, he doesn't know much about what an average worker earns.

• NEGATIVE GEARING

It's not just that one in three buyers are investors, it's also that they're disproportionately competing with first-home buyers.

You've heard the one about the one-year-old who's buying a house.

Surgeons, anesthetists, finance managers and lawyers will be the overwhelming beneficiaries of the Turnbull government's decision not to touch negative gearing in the budget, research shows.