Tax
ATO Detects Over $53 Million Worth Of Tax Time Errors
The Australian public has lodged nearly six million tax returns already this year, with over $11.9 billion in refunds processed, which is $270 million more compared with the same time period last year.
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Changes To CGT Exemption For Inherited Property
When someone inherits a dwelling there are some special rules contained within the main residence exemption provisions that can provide a full exemption if certain conditions are met. If the conditions are not met, the beneficiary might face a nasty capital gains tax (CGT) bill for their good fortune.
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Oligopolies and Monoliths Thrive Again
The first rule to bring up to international level is easy. Tax the multinational bastards! The second? Bring competition policy up to the international level.
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Tax Obligations For Car Sharing
The ATO has flagged these car sharing service platforms and believes that, by using their sophisticated data matching systems, they can identify where sharing platforms are being used to generate income.
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Small Businesses Do Need Tax Guidance
We’re glad to hear the head of the ATO, Chris Jordan, has come out recently and commented on tax obligations for small business people. It’s very complex, but so important that small business people get it right.
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Can I Claim Travel Expenses For My Rental Property?
Travel expenses relating to inspecting, maintaining, or collecting rent for a residential rental property cannot be claimed as deductions by investors. The travel expenditure is also not recognised in the cost base of the property for CGT purposes.
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Time Is Up For Dodgy Accountants
We absolutely love that the ATO has singled out the presence of about 500 dodgy tax agents in the Aussie tax community. The ATO assistant commissioner, Adam Kendrick, has recently spoke about these dodgy agents eating into market share of good quality, well trained tax agents…
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.
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