The Editorial Team

Alexis Carey has been a reporter for more than 10 years, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communications from the University of Sydney in 2009 before landing a role at her local paper in Griffith, NSW. Alexis has since worked for NewsCorp Australia’s local news titles and at the Mamamia Women’s Network before taking a career break to travel. She joined news.com.au in 2017 as a finance reporter and then finance editor before joining the news team in 2020.

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Tax

The ATO has warned employers that any unreported "cash in hand" payments made to workers from July 1 2019 will not be tax deductible. Picture: iStock

ATO’s massive tax return crackdown

The tax office is cracking down on an “unfair” and “illegal” tax loophole which means these common deductions are now firmly on the hit list.

Costs

The Opal Tower building is seen at Sydney's Olympic Park, Thursday, May 23, 2019. The newly built block in Sydney Olympic Park was evacuated on Christmas Eve after cracks were found in the building, sparking fears it could collapse. (AAP Image/Paul Braven) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Mascot Towers fiasco ‘won’t be the last’

Experts have issued a grim warning about Australia’s building defect epidemic, claiming the latest incident is just the tip of the iceberg.

Costs

ONE TIME WEB USE ONLY _ FEE APPLIES FOR REUSE - Gemma Brushett, 28, was hit by cyclist Robert Hazeldean in 2015. Picture: Champion News Service

Yoga teacher’s shock win over cyclist

Gemma Brushett was using her phone when she stepped out in traffic and was hit by a cyclist — but he’s the one who has to pay up.

Wealth

FILE - In this April 4, 2016 file photo, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt attend the premiere of "Nothing Left Unsaid" at the Time Warner Center in New York. Vanderbilt, the "poor little rich girl" heiress at the center of a scandalous custody battle of the 1930s and the designer jeans queen of the 1970s and '80s, died on Monday, June 17, 2019, at 95, according to her son, Cooper. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Why son won’t inherit mum’s $290m

Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt died this week at age 95 — but her TV star son and her other children won’t get their hands on her fortune.

Leaders

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 29: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes attends the 2015 Clinton Global Initiative Closing Plenary at Sheraton Times Square on September 29, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic)

Disgraced CEO’s bizarre secret wedding

She had a $6.3 billion fortune — before being revealed as a fraud. And there may be more to Elizabeth Holmes’ romance than meets the eye.

Costs

Research reveals 2.7 million Australians hide their spending from partners. Picture: iStock

Aussie couples’ X-rated secret

Millions of loved-up Australians are sneaking around behind their partners’ backs — and they could “end up paying for it some day”.

Retail

22/08/17. Double Bay, Sydney, NSW, Australia.Portraits of cosmetics entrepreneur Napoleon Perdis, pictured at his shop in Double Bay. (AAP Image / Julian Andrews).

Napoleon’s shock exit from own company

Napoleon Perdis Cosmetics was saved from the brink of collapse just two months ago — but its co-founder has stood down.

Buying

Norbert Kaess at the site of his next development. Picture: Shae Beplate.

Tradie buys four properties by 22

Norbert Kaess is an “average” bloke with an “ordinary” job — but he’s still built up a lucrative property portfolio in his early 20s.

Banking

ANZ NZ CEO David Hisco. Supplied, no restrictions

$3.5m bank boss’s expenses ‘rort’

David Hisco made a whopping $3.5 million last financial year. But he still managed to rack up a $25,000 bill that has cost him his job.

At Work

A female entrepreneur and businesswoman is working on her start up company in her office. She has fallen asleep at the office with her head on her desk. Empty coffee cups are on the table.

Common habit ‘sabotaging’ your career

More and more of us are falling into this common trap at work — and it could be holding you back and driving your colleagues crazy.

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