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Published 4 September 2018

Changes to eligibility for the lower 27.5% company tax rate have received Royal Assent.

To be eligible for the lower 27.5% company tax rate, from the 2017–18 income year a company needs to be a base rate entity, which is defined as having:

• 80% or less of their assessable income as passive income. For example interest, dividends or rent. This recent change replaced the 'carrying on a business' requirement

• an aggregated turnover less than $25 million (this turnover threshold increased to $50 million from 2018–19).

CA2018-034 Enterprise Tax Plan - Reducing the Company Tax Rate 2018 change advice reflects these changes and details how your software will need to be updated in order to support your users.

Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan No.2) Bill 2017, which proposed changes to turnover thresholds in future years, is not proceeding.

Updated 13 August 2018
Published 7 August 2018

VANguard is changing the certificate authority for authentication.business.gov.au from Symantec to Digicert. If you have pinned to this certificate, you may need to install the new certificate to ensure continuity of service, depending on whether your application accepts new certificates without intervention or has implemented certificate pinning.

The new VANguard authentication.business.gov.au certificate has been rescheduled for deployment on Tuesday 28 August 7.00pm AEST. The new certificate is now available for you to download from the SBR Share File (login required). Once the new certificate has been deployed it will replace the old certificate, and the old SSL certificate will no longer be used.

To confirm you have obtained the correct certificate or if you have any questions, email the SBR Service Desk or phone 1300 488 231.

For further information on how this affects you as a digital service provider, email the Digital partnership office.

Published: Tuesday 8 May, 2018

Standard Business Reporting (SBR) enables you to securely access and confirm details of the test.sbr.gov.au secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate for the purpose of certificate pinning. The current certificate expires on Monday 4 June. To ensure continuity of service you may need to install the new certificate. This will depend on whether your application:

• accepts new certificates without intervention, or
• has implemented certificate pinning.

The new certificate is scheduled for deployment on Thursday 31 May 7.00am AEST and is now available to download from the SBR Share File (login required).

Once the new certificate has been deployed the previous certificate will no longer be used. The deployment will only affect the SBR EVTE environment (SBR1).

To find out if you have the right certificate or if you have any questions contact the SBR Service Desk.