Archive for category: Tax
News
Death and Small Business CGT Concessions
They say that two things in life are inevitable – death and taxes. This doesn’t mean that the two have to happen at the same time. Generally where there is a change of ownership in small business, a CGT event is deemed to have occurred which may result in a capital loss or taxable gain. When a person dies, their assets are transferred to their legal personal representative (LPR) or are acquired by a surviving joint tenant, if one exists, and as such the Capital Gains Tax rules apply.
... read more
Death and Small Business CGT Concessions
They say that two things in life are inevitable – death and taxes. This doesn’t mean that the two have to happen at the same time. Generally where there is a change of ownership in small business, a CGT event is deemed to have occurred which may result in a capital loss or taxable gain. When a person dies, their assets are transferred to their legal personal representative (LPR) or are acquired by a surviving joint tenant, if one exists, and as such the Capital Gains Tax rules apply.
... read more
Clothing Deductions Hung Out To Dry
The ATO says that clothing claims are up nearly 20 per cent over the last five years with people either making mistakes or deliberately over-claiming. Common mistakes include people claiming ineligible clothing, claiming for something without having spent the money, and not being able to explain the basis for how the claim was calculated.
... read more
The Fall Guy
We want nothing of any value in the fall guy’s name. Absolutely nothing! It’s not a perfect world. Bad things sometimes happen to good people. So if a business falls over the fall guy can go with it but hard earned assets built along the journey MUST be fully protected.
... read more
2018 Tax Checklists
We have taken the time to prepare comprehensive Tax Checklists for 2018, designed to guide you in providing all the correct and relevant information to maximise your tax return.
... read more
ATO Changes for Building and Construction Service Clients
If you are running a business primarily in the building and construction industry and you make payments to contractors for building and construction services, you will need to lodge a Tax Payments Annual Report.
... read more
What Will The ATO Audit This Year?
It can often be difficult to know where exactly the tax office are going to be focusing their audits. As it is the start of a new financial year, I thought I would provide some insight into where the ATO will be pointing their guns in 2018/19.
... read more
Company Disaster
We are talking today about business structures and in particular the disaster that is companies when running a small business. We need to go back in history and look at the year 1999, the Federal Government of that year changed the rules on small business.
... read more