Tax-legislation changes approved without analysis of practical outcomes

There is a buzz. A murmur. A rumbling of discontent among professional associations that work in the tax game about the manner in which the Australian Greens secured their legislative win to ban certain Big Four partners from being appointed as members of the tax agent regulator.

It would be easy to dismiss the eight professional associations as being a self-interested cabal resistant to change, if you know nothing about the accounting profession, the ethical obligations of the profession, and the practical impact of changes proposed.