2026 Webinar Series
Our monthly webinars are designed for advisors supporting business owners and directors dealing with debt challenges, financial pressure and complex decision-making. Each session responds to current conditions and real advisory scenarios, providing practical insights that advisors can apply when guiding clients through restructuring, recovery or exit decisions.
Led by the de Jonge Read® team and trusted industry experts, each session focuses on real-world advisory scenarios, emerging risks and practical decision-making. The goal is to help advisors identify issues earlier, understand the available options, and guide clients with confidence before problems escalate. These sessions are educational, practical and grounded in current client matters — not theory.
Our webinars are typically attended by advisors who work with business owners and directors, including:
- Accountants and accounting firms
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Bookkeepers and BAS agents
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Business advisors and consultants
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Finance and mortgage brokers
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Professionals supporting SMEs in financial difficulty
If you advise clients experiencing cash-flow pressure, ATO debt, creditor demands or structural issues, these sessions are designed for you.
Previous webinar speakers and co-hosts have included representatives from the Australian Taxation Office, alongside industry-leading accountants, bookkeepers, lawyers, financiers and other relevant professionals, as well as the experienced de Jonge Read® team. This broad mix of regulatory, technical and practical perspectives ensures each session delivers balanced, commercially relevant insight.
Webinars are usually held on the 4th Thursday of each month and, by popular demand, are delivered in two live sessions at 10am (AEST) and 1pm (AEST). Our webinars contribute to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programs. Attendees will receive a CPD certificate after the webinar. For advisors who are unable to attend either live session, a recording is published on our website in the days following the event, allowing you to stay informed at a time that suits you.
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The Pressure Hasn’t Eased: Insolvency and ATO Enforcement Trends for the Year Ahead
The past year has kept advisors busy across their client books, and the pressure has not let up as the new financial year begins. Company insolvencies held near record levels through FY2025-26, at more than 14,000, and while the raw numbers have steadied, the forces behind them are still building. The ATO issued more than 84,000 Director Penalty Notices in a single year, the general interest charge has climbed to 11.43% and is no longer tax-deductible, and business-to-business late payments are now at their highest level in six years.
This month, Ashley Shield, Executive Director at de Jonge Read®, steps back from any single issue to look at the bigger picture. Rather than one topic, this session works through the trends that shaped the past year in insolvency and ATO enforcement, and what they signal for the months ahead. Ashley will draw on real cases de Jonge Read® has worked through, showing how early intervention changed the outcome for directors who acted in time.
Key insights you’ll gain:
🔹 Where insolvency activity is concentrating heading into the new financial year, and which sectors are carrying the most risk
🔹 What the ATO’s harder line on collectable debt, including the surge in Director Penalty Notices, means for clients carrying tax debt
🔹 Why a rising, non-deductible general interest charge is quietly reshaping the cost of leaving ATO debt unresolved
🔹 How late payments and other early warning signs are becoming the most reliable signals to act on
🔹 How real de Jonge Read® cases turned on the timing of the advisor’s intervention
This session will help you read the trends shaping your clients’ risk, recognise the warning signs earlier, and know when stepping in early can protect a director and preserve a business.
Get your certificate of attendance. Our webinars contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD), and every attendee receives a certificate after the session.
Did you miss our previous webinars?
You can now watch the recordings of our previous sessions here.
