Sourced to the regulator
Every claim links to the ATO, the TPB or the OAIC, with the document number and the date it was issued. If we cannot source it, we do not print it.
Knowledge centre
The rules changed. Twice.
Plain-English notes on the obligations Australian practices actually carry — AI under the Code, Payday Super, privacy, and the workflows underneath them. Written for practitioners, sourced to the regulator, and dated so you can see what is current.
What TPB(GS) 55/2026 means for using AI in your practice
The Board issued it on 22 July 2026 and it does not ban anything. It asks three things: the client’s permission before their information goes in, a person responsible for the output, and the review documented at each step. The third one is where most practices are not ready.
Read it — about 6 minutesPayday Super: what counts as qualifying earnings
From 1 July 2026 super must reach the fund within seven business days of payday, calculated on qualifying earnings. What that phrase actually covers.
Read itFrom 10 December 2026 your privacy policy must disclose automated decisions
A Privacy Act change lands in December. If you use personal information in automated decision-making that affects someone’s rights, your privacy policy has to say so.
Read itWhat TPB(GS) 55/2026 means for using AI in your practice
Three obligations, in plain English, and what each one means for the tools you already use — including the AI already inside them.
Read itHow we write these
Dated, and corrected
Each piece carries the date it was published and the date it was last checked. When something changes we amend the article and say what changed.
Not advice
These are general notes to help you ask better questions, not tax or legal advice for your practice. Your circumstances decide what applies.
On the way
What we are writing next, and roughly when.
We publish when something actually changes for an Australian practice, not on a content calendar. If a date below slips it is because the regulator moved, and we will say so.
Next
The documentation the TPB expects, in practice
What “documented at each step” looks like as an actual record, and what is probably not enough.
October
Payday Super, one quarter in
What the seven-business-day rule has done to payroll runs, and the two places practices are getting caught.
Before December
A privacy policy clause you can actually use
Model wording for the automated-decision disclosure, with the parts you must change marked.
When it lands
Whatever the ATO or the Board issues next
Read, sourced and written up in plain English, usually inside a fortnight.
Reading about it is the slow part.
DeskMate keeps the record these obligations ask for — who ran it, what it touched, who approved it — as a by-product of the work.
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