NEWS

31 May, 2021

Benefits Of Family Trusts

Many of you have heard of family trusts, but perhaps don’t know too much about their benefits and how they differ from the usual non-fixed trusts. Essentially, a family trust […]
26 May, 2021

Boosting Super: Low And Middle Income Earners

If you’re a low or middle-income earner, you can take advantage of the government super co-contribution scheme to boost your super. The scheme works like this, for eligible individuals, depending […]
24 May, 2021

Budget 2021: What’s In It For My Business?

The 2021 Federal Budget has been handed down with many sweeteners for businesses to help drive unemployment rates down and power the economic engine of Australia. It has been forecast […]
21 May, 2021

Budget 2021: What’s In It For Me?

As is tradition, the second Tuesday in May saw the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg handed down the 2021-22 Federal Budget, his third. Overall, he noted that while the Australian economy has […]
5 May, 2021

Independent Resolution Process Now Permanent

Small businesses now have another pathway to resolve tax disputes with the ATO making its independent review service a permanent option for eligible small businesses (ie those with a turnover […]
3 May, 2021

SMSF Governance: Reminder Of Obligations

A recent case decided by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal contains important reminders for anyone who has a self-managed super fund. As background, a company carrying on an accountancy practice set […]
28 April, 2021

ATO Data-Matching: Residency

The ATO has announced that it will be conducting a new data-matching program with information from the Department of Home Affairs on passenger movements during the 2016-17 to 2022-23 income […]
26 April, 2021

Steps To Get A Deduction For Bad Debts

As many of the government’s COVID-19 economic supports coming away, economists predict there’ll be many business failures to follow. If your business is unable to obtain payment from a debtor, […]
23 April, 2021

ATO Targeting Contractors

Contractors beware, with the ATO having now received the taxable payments annual report from more than 158,000 businesses for the 2019-20 income year, it is now data-matching this information with […]
21 April, 2021

Superannuation Death Benefits

While we’re dutifully putting money into our super in the hopes of making our retirement more comfortable, many of us have not considered the possibility that we may not be […]