Rules Mate for accountants
Tranche 2 in force since 1 July 2026. Plus TASA Code expansion, Payday Super, Director ID + DPN risk. Everything you need to advise SMB clients across 60 Australian regulators.
Since 1 July 2026, accountants providing 'designated services' (managing client money, company / trust formation, buying/selling business entities) have been AUSTRAC reporting entities — and, as reporting entities, covered by the Privacy Act for their AML/CTF activities even under $3M turnover (Privacy Act 1988 s6E(1A)). Wage theft is criminal. Payday Super has started. TASA Code expanded breach-reporting kicked in 1 January 2025. From 10 December 2026, APP entities must disclose automated decision-making in their privacy policies; removing the small-business exemption for other SMB clients is agreed in principle but not yet law, with no date set.
Rules Mate is your reference index across all of it — searchable, plain-English, every claim cited.
How Rules Mate helps
- Map a client's obligations from their ABN in 30 seconds
- Build an AML/CTF scope assessment + reasoning for files
- Run penalty exposure scenarios for board/audit conversations
- Reference TASA Code, RG 271, RG 78 + 60 other regulator guides in one place