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November Newsletter

Annual Report 2023-24

Our 2023-24 Annual Report captures a year of meaningful engagement with our members and peers in government, key achievements and our priorities heading into 2025. Read more about the 2023-24 year in the full Annual Report. 

DSPANZ News

Annual General Meeting Outcomes 2024

Annual General Meeting Outcomes 2024

DSPANZ held our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 6 November with the current Board, Nominated Directors and Members in attendance. Continue reading about the AGM outcomes here
Security
Retrospective

2024 Security Retrospective 

This year, the DSPANZ Security Committee dedicated its efforts to support DSPs and the industry with tools and insights to tackle evolving security challenges. From thought-provoking webinars - Cyber Insurance Friend or Foe, Anatomy of a Cyber Attack and ISO/IEC 27002:2022 Practical Overview - to drafting a security incident reporting guide, the Committee delivered impactful resources to strengthen security practices. 

We're excited to see these engaging initiatives continue in 2025. Want to shape the future of security? Join the discussion on LinkedIn!
NZ Newsletter

Aotearoa New Zealand Newsletter

Did you know that DSPANZ provides a quarterly Aotearoa New Zealand newsletter? In these newsletters we wrap up all the important news for DSPs operating in New Zealand. Stay up to date by signing up here. Catch up on past editions here
Representation

DSPANZ Representation
Over the past month, we've been attending the following working groups and meetings representing DSPs:
  • ATO Payday Super Working Group
  • ASIC Registry Business Advisory Group
  • ATO GST Stewardship Group
  • NZ DAG Payroll Working Group

 Industry News

New Zealand eInvoicing

New Zealand Government Introduces Stronger Requirements for eInvoicing

On 5 November, the New Zealand Government announced new Government Procurement Rules requiring more government agencies to send and receive eInvoices and pay eInvoices within 5 business days. 

The new Rules require mandated government agencies to:
  • Implement eInvoicing send and receive capability by 1 January 2026, for agencies that send and/or receive over 2,000 domestic trade invoices annually
  • Pay 95% of domestic trade eInvoices within 5 business days by 1 January 2026, and report payment times via MBIE. Agencies are also tasked with paying other invoices within 10 business days from 1 January 2025. 

Are you ready for eInvoicing?

Commissioner of Taxation Annual Report 2023-24/

Commissioner of Taxation Annual Report 2023-24
The ATO recently published the Commissioner of Taxation Annual Report 2023-24. The Annual Report provides an overview of the ATO's performance during the past year and updates on the following key focus areas: 

  • Improve small business tax performance
  • Manage cybersecurity 
  • Address collectable debt
  • Protecting the system and clients against fraud 
  • Multinational tax performance
  • Modernising business registry services
  • Superannuation guarantee integrity 
  • Continue to invest in data and digital

Read more in the Annual Report here

Annual Report 2023-24

Inland Revenue Annual Report 2024
Inland Revenue (IR) has released its Annual Report for 2024, highlighting progress in digital transformation, compliance and collaboration. Our key takeaways from the Annual Report include:

  • With 99.2% of tax returns filed digitally and most digital interactions with the tax system handled by gateway services, IR is continuing to invest in its digital capabilities
  • IR's efforts to tackle non-compliance include leveraging analytics to prevent fraudulent claims and manage overdue tax debt, now at $7.92 billion
  • IR is reducing compliance burdens for SMEs through improved online tools and is reducing uncertainty for larger companies
  • The Digital Advisory Group and collaboration with DSPANZ is allowing for DSPs to co-design solutions and contribute to New Zealand's growing digital tax ecosystem

Read the full Annual Report here.

ASD Threat Report 2023-24

ASD Annual Cyber Threat Report 2023-24
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has released its Annual Cyber Threat Report for 2023-24. The report details the latest cyber threats affecting Australian organisations and critical infrastructure, how ASD is responding, and recommended actions to mitigate key cyber security threats. Read the Annual Cyber Threat Report 2023-24 for more information

NZ Government Tax and Social Policy Work Programme

NZ Government Tax and Social Policy Work Programme
Inland Revenue has released the latest version of the Government Tax and Social Policy Work Programme. The Work Programme's overarching priorities are simplifying tax and reducing compliance costs, addressing integrity risks, and improving fiscal sustainability, in order to rebuild the economy. Read more and access the latest version here.  

CDR Rules Amendments

Consumer Data Right Rules Amendments
The Assistant Treasurer and Minster for Financial Services, the Hon Stephen Jones MP, has made the Competition and Consumer (Consumer Data Right) Amendment (2024 Measures No.1) Rules 2024. These changes will give effect to the consent amendments and operational enhancements to the Consumer Data Right rules. Read more in the media release here

Events

AP+ Webinar

The Move to NPP: An Introduction to Australia's Payments Future
Australian Payments Plus (AP+) are hosting The move to NPP: An introduction to Australia's payments future webinar on Monday 2 December from 12pm -12.45pm AEDT. This webinar is open to anyone interested in learning more about Australia's payments future and will touch on:

  • How Australia's payments are modernising and why
  • The role of the NPP in modernising payments
  • What the future of payments means for businesses. 

Learn more about the webinar and register here.

Member Spotlight

Member Spotlight - Layer Security

Layer Security

Who are you?
Layer Security develops (ebMS3/AS4) messaging software.

We have a proud history of pioneering AS4 products – being among the first to roll out implementations of AS4 in Australia (SBR2 2015, DBC 2017) and internationally (Peppol 2019). Along the way, we have worked with DSPs of all sizes and continuously contributed to many working groups, committees and standards (ATO, DSPANZ, Peppol). 

What do you do?
Layer Security software modules allow DSPs to directly interact with the ATO (SBR2) or Peppol (e-invoicing). Our products are small, fast, simple, low-cost, and easy for DSPs to integrate into accounting, tax, payroll, superannuation, e-invoicing, and other business applications.

For STP, running your own (internal) ebMS3 client may be much cheaper (and more secure, private and controllable) than using an (external) SSP.

For cloud-based applications (tax, super, e-invoicing), it may be cheaper and easier to incorporate our software modules because they are tiny (4MB), efficient (CPU, memory, disk) and fully supported with all the latest features and requirements (ATO, Peppol).

All products are free for testing. 

Where are you located?
We are an all-Australian company based in Melbourne. 

Who can people contact for more information?
Contact us via our website.  


Until next time, 
The Team at DSPANZ.

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