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March Newsletter

2025-26 Australian Budget Breakdown for DSPs

The 2025-26 Australian Federal Budget has landed. Here's our Budget breakdown highlighting the measures and initiatives with potential impacts for DSPs. DSPANZ members can access our more detailed analysis via the Members Only section of our website.

DSPANZ News

Meet the Director - Emily Curlewis

Earlier this year, the DSPANZ Board and team welcomed Emily Curlewis as a new Director. We wanted to get to know Emily beyond the titles, achievements and LinkedIn bio. So, we asked some questions to get to know Emily better - you can check out her responses here.

Planning Day 2025

The DSPANZ Board and staff kicked off the year with some big conversations at our Annual Planning Days in Melbourne. Take a quick peek at how we're working to deliver more value for our members in 2025 and beyond here.

Review of Tax Regulator Secrecy Exceptions

We provided a submission to Treasury's Review of Tax Regulator Secrecy Exceptions on 14 March 2025. You can learn more about the key themes we raised and access the full copy of the submission here.

Proposed New Digital Competition Regime

DSPANZ provided a submission to the Treasury's consultation on the proposed new digital competition regime. Find an overview of what raised and access the full copy of the submission here.

Data Minimisation and Retention: Best Practice Guidance for Australian DSPs

Data Minimisation & Retention Webinar

We've added a webinar alongside our Data Minimisation and Retention: Best Practice Guidance for Australian Digital Service Providers to help run through the content and provide some useful tips. You can watch the bite-sized explainer here.

DSPANZ Representation

Over the past month, we've been attending the following working groups and meetings representing DSPs:

New Zealand Digital Advisory Group Security Working Group
Payday Super Working Group
GST Stewardship Group
Payday Super Roundtable

Industry News

Payday Super Draft Legislation Released
The draft legislation and explanatory materials for Payday Super have now been released on the Treasury's website. DSPANZ will be working alongside our members to draft a submission and provide industry feedback. We'll be sending out an email to invite for our members to attend a feedback session and provide more information about how to get involved in the DSPANZ submission. Reminder - the consultation closes on Friday 11 April. Learn more here.

Aotearoa New Zealand Minimum Wages Increasing
Minimum wages are increasing in Aotearoa New Zealand on 1 April applying to all employees 16 and over. The minimum wages are increasing as follows:

Adult minimum wage will go up from $23.25 to $23.50 per hour
Starting-out and training minimum wage will go up from $18.52 to $18.80

Learn more and ensure you're ready for the minimum wage increase here.

Reminder to Comply With Updated ISO/IEC 27001
The ATO is reminding DSPs certified to the ISO/IEC 27001 standard that they must transition to the updated ISO/IEC 27001:2022 by 31 October 2025. If you haven't transitioned already, ensure you set aside enough time to upgrade to the new standard for the next Operational Security Framework Review. If you have any questions, raise a ticket via the ATO's DSP service desk.

Member Spotlight

Intuit
Who are you?
Intuit is the global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges. Serving more than 100 million customers worldwide with TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to prosper. We never stop working to find new, innovative ways to make that possible.

What do you do?
Our Aussie team supports small businesses across Australia get paid faster and save time by making it easy to manage their finances on the go, in real-time. In Australia, QuickBooks offers cloud-accounting solutions that serve the needs of self-employed, small business, accountants and bookkeepers with QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Online Accountant and QuickBooks Self Employed.

Where are you located?
ACT, NSW, QLD, SA, VIC, WA.

Who can people contact for more information?
Call 1800 046 038 or chat in the app with live chat.

Until next time,
The Team at DSPANZ.