January Newsletter
After a big year in 2021, I’d like to wish you a Happy New Year as DSPANZ President. It is my honour to have been re-elected as President of
this prospering Association for another year in 2022.
The
beginning of the year means some changes to the DSPANZ Board. We welcome back Mike Behling from MYOB, after a year’s hiatus. I’m also
pleased to introduce Allen Knight of Taxlab based in Auckland and Belinda Stewart of Paypac based in Perth who are new members of our Board
and joining the re-elected Directors Simone Dixon from ELMO, Matthew Prouse from Xero and Andrew Stirling from Tanda. New faces means that
we also have departing Directors and bid farewell to Sreeni Pillamarri, Brad
Stockman, Michael Ross and Marjukka Maki-Hokkonen. I thank
each of them for their many and valuable contributions to DSPANZ over the last several years.
It’s been great to see increased involvement from members over the past year as well as continuing to grow our relationships with
government agencies and other stakeholders. We look forward to another productive year and expanding our relationships with government and
industry both here in Australia and across the Tasman in New
Zealand.
Our mission is to support members to inform government policies and develop solutions that optimise business and economic outcomes in New
Zealand and Australia. The Board will be meeting shortly to plan our 2022 Strategy. I welcome any feedback from members and stakeholders
about what activities and priorities you would like to see for DSPANZ and the broader Industry. Please connect with the Board via LinkedIn,
or feel free to get in touch with me directly at
simon.foster@dspanz.org.
Simon Foster, DSPANZ President
DSPANZ News
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Meet
our New Director Belinda Stewart
Get to know our new Director Belinda Stewart. Following our AGM late last year, Belinda has joined the DSPANZ Board. Outside of DSPANZ
Belinda is the Business Engagement Manager at Paypac Payroll
Services Pty Ltd and in 2021 was asked to join the Government &
Stakeholder Relations subcommittee as a Western Australia representative.
Read More...
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Meet our New
Director Allen Knight
Get to know our new Director Allen Knight. Following our AGM, Allen has also joined the Board.
Outside of DSPANZ Allen is the CEO at
Taxlab and became involved with DSPANZ when his organisation saw an increasing need in the New Zealand tax and accounting community to
collaborate in a structured manner with the New Zealand government and regulators through an organisation like DSPANZ rather than
directly.
Read More…
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Industry News
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DTA Digital Identity EOI
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) have recently released an expression of interest (EOI) for organisations wanting to learn more about
Digital Identity. Participation in the EOI will help the DTA to understand your organisation’s interest in seeking accreditation and/or
participating in the Australian Government Digital Identity System (the
System) in the future. This EOI is open until 5.00pm AEDT on 4
March 2022. Visit eoi.digitalidentity.gov.au for further information.
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ATO
API Developer Portal
Webinar
The ATO are hosting a webinar on the API Developer Portal on 24 January 2022 from 2 - 3pm AEDT. This webinar will be hosted by ATO director
Michael Ferris who will provide a walkthrough of the API developer portal. You can register for the webinar here.
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DSPANZ
Spokesperson on Development of the BER
DSPANZ’s e-invoicing spokesperson, Matt Lewis, noted that DSPANZ supports the creation of the BER which will assist in increasing the uptake
of e-invoicing across Australia and called the development a 'step in the right direction'.
You can read the full article here.
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Until next time,
The Team at DSPANZ.
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