About Us

TaxScene succinctly informs busy professional advisers of key changes in State and Territory taxes and grants.
It is an electronic subscription newsletter that is customised to meet the individual reader’s information requirements. You, the subscriber, control the type and detail of the information provided. Our aim is to inform, while reducing your inbox clutter and avoid information overload.

For more detail, see : What we do and How we do it.

The newsletter

  • Simplifies your task of keeping abreast of current developments in those State and Territory taxes/grants which you anticipate will be relevant to your practice” – you choose the particular categories of information to be provided;
  • Assists you to be pro-active through being informed of both developments in your nominated State/Territory jurisdiction and developments in other jurisdictions which we consider to have implications for the nominated jurisdiction.
  • Delivers information as a précis that allows you to assess its relevance for you at a glance, drill down to the article summarizing key changes and, for when you want comprehensive detail, gives you a link to the primary material.
  • Structures the articles with a view to quick comprehension of the key changes. 
  • Aids in resolving problematic scenarios encountered in practice, through your ability to access a searchable database of archived newsletter materials.

See further: Subscriber Benefits

We aim to provide a timely flow of information. While this will generally be achieved through our regular newsletter editions, special editions may be issued with extremely time-sensitive material.

What We Do

We succinctly inform our subscribers of key changes in their chosen Australian State or Territory tax scene(s).

The State/Territory jurisdictions and taxes which are currently monitored are set out in our Pricing Schedule. Monitored changes include developments in case law, legislation, rulings/published revenue office practices and tax policy.

Subscribers can also choose to receive information on State/Territory grants and subsidies.

We provide only the information which you, as subscriber, want – you nominate the areas of tax relevant to your practice and the level of importance (high or medium) of the material provided. You do not have to sift through (or pay for) extraneous material in search of relevant information.

We recognise that work pressures limit the time that can be devoted to staying up-to-date and that judgment of which information is important is required. However, we welcome contact from persons seeking a more extensive set of materials.

How we do it

Our email newsletters are designed to meet the professional development needs of busy, time-poor, professional advisers for knowledge of developments in State/Territory taxes.

Newsletter features:

  • Customisation – The newsletter is customised to target your nominated area(s) of interest.
  • Prioritisation – Utilising our editing team’s experience in consulting practice, we prioritise developments in the nominated area in order to avoid you being overloaded with information. You can choose to receive only high priority material (e.g. material that effects a change in the law etc.) or can choose the more expansive set of material prioritised as medium and above (e.g. material that effects change in the law, provides useful re-statements of legal/technical principles or provides a useful/informative application of the tax etc.)
  • Pro-active – Where we identify that a development in one State has implications for your nominated tax area of another State, your newsletter includes the change.
  • Simplicity of Comprehension – The newsletter is structured to allow you to see the range of developments in the nominated area(s) at a glance. When you want particulars of a change, you can drill down to an article that summarises the change.  For readers who want to explore a particular change in comprehensive detail, it also provides easy access to the primary documentation which effects the change.
  • Practical Comments – Where appropriate, we provide practical comment.
  • Information Management – The newsletter minimizes the need for information management through being a timely periodic collation of changes that are easily “digested” and absorbed – the occasional extremely time-sensitive change is notified by special email.
  • Reduce Inbox Clutter – A single periodic newsletter for each State/Territory jurisdiction to which you subscribe reduces cluttering your inbox with emails from multiple senders. It collects information in one convenient point for easy reference.
  • Access to previous materials – The articles are archived in a searchable database.

Subscriber Benefits

Anticipated benefits for subscribers include:

  • Avoid the distraction and mailbox clutter of multiple emails – all subscribed areas of a particular State/Territory are collated in a single periodic email. Only urgent (time-sensitive) changes are notified by special email.
  • Save time, money and effort by controlling the breadth of information, through customisation. The ability to choose allows you to pay only for what you expect to use. You save time and effort by the ability to focus on tax areas which you consider are relevant to your practice, without the need to sift through extraneous material. Through your choice of the prioritisation level, you can further control the volume of material provided.
  • You can more closely refine your focus, and your effective use of time, through review of précis to identify especially relevant changes and then drilling down to a concise article that describes the applicable change and, for comprehensive detail of the change, using the links to access the primary material.
  • Advisors with clients in several States/Territories can subscribe to newsletters dedicated to each jurisdiction – the jurisdictions and taxes covered will be rolled out progressively. The separate jurisdictional newsletters assist assimilation through compartmentalisation and avoiding information overload.
  • As a subscriber, historical material is managed for you – articles are archived and available to subscribers in a searchable database.

Who we are

TaxScene is a newsletter produced and issued by TaxScene Pty Ltd. It is edited by Andrew Orange.

Andrew has practised as a tax consultant with a boutique tax advisory firm for the past 20 years, having previously worked as a solicitor in property/commercial law and lectured in tax at the University of Queensland Law School. He holds a Masters of Law from the University of Queensland and a Masters of Taxation from UNSW. Andrew has been a member of the Taxation Institute of Australia since 1993 and is a Chartered Tax Advisor.