Current Newsletter

Winter 2021
- Super Contribution Changes From 1 July 2021
- Why the ATO Wants Your TPAR
- Tax Treatment of JobKeeper Payments Handed Back to ATO
- Your SMSF and You
- Proposed Tax Residency Changes
- Proposed New Reporting For Not-For-Profits
- Superannuation and Retirement Measures Explained
- Bridging the Gap - How the 2021/22 Federal Budget Supports Women
- Child Care Subsidy Enhancements
Previous Newsletters
- Autumn 2021
  - Time - How Are You Going Managing Yours?
  - Transitioning To The Removal Of Special Purpose Financial Statements
  - Winding-Up: Simplifying Small Business Insolvency
  - Single Touch Payroll Concessions To End
  - Smaller Charities To Benefit From Reduced Red Tape
  - Bank Credit Ratings - How Safe Is Your Money?
  - Build, Buy Or Renovate?
  - Good News On Superannuation Caps
  - Five Signs That You Need To Get Control Of Your Super
- Summer 2020
  - As We Return to Normal, Now What?
  - CGT and Your Holiday House
  - The JobKeeper Extension 2 - Starting Soon
  - Making the Most of the Instant Asset Write Off
  - JobKeeper Clawback Begins
  - Fixing Fundraising
- Spring 2020
  - The JobKeeper Extension
  - Instant Asset Tax Write-off Closing Soon
  - COVID-19 and Your SMSF
  - COVID-19 Home Office Concessions Extended
  - Support for Business Employing Apprentices and Trainees
  - ACNC Reviews of Charities
- Winter 2020
  - Victorian Land Tax Relief For Property Owners
  - New Portal for Audit Clients
  - Maximise Home Office Claims During COVID-19
  - Tax Write-off Extended
  - New Victorian Commercial Tenancies Relief Laws
  - Single Touch Payroll Changes Deferred
  - Getting “Audit Ready”
- Autumn 2020
  - Non-residents excluded from Main Residence Exemption
  - ATO eyes property “flipping”
  - Bushfire support and assistance
  - Portable Long Service Leave
  - Alerts to protect SMSFs from fraud
  - Changes announced for charities preparing Special Purpose Financial Statements
  - Diversifying your SMSF investments
  - Downsizing – do you want fries with that?
- Summer 2019
  - Could Selling the Back Yard be Your Worst Tax Decision?
  - Whistle-blower Protections Impacting Charities
  - Main Residence CGT Bill is Resurrected
  - New Rules for Calculating Super Guarantee
  - Super Guarantee Amnesty – Plan to Get in Quick!
  - Instant Asset Write-off – Time is Running Out
  - Can The Tax Office Take Money Out of Your Account? Your Right to Know
  - Is It Worth Salary Sacrificing Your Super?
  - Developing A Retirement Savings Plan
  - 4 Smart Strategies for Estate Planning
- Spring 2019
  - Warning To Employers On Tax Obligations
  - Single Touch Payroll - Are You On-Board?
  - ATO Increasing Audits of Individual Tax Returns
  - Personal Tax Changes - What Are You Really Entitled To?
  - Final Tax Ruling On Religious Practitioners Released
  - New Rules For Charities Operating Overseas
  - New Resources For Charities
  - What's Holding Back Your Business?
  - Women and Superannuation - How the pay gap can impact your super
  - Sustainable Investing - Making Money and Doing Good
  - A New Era For RDL Financial Planning
- Winter 2019
  - Sales down, but profits up!
  - STP....just around the corner for smaller employers
  - The real cost of Airbnb for property owners
  - The end of Payment Summaries for larger employers
  - Small business immediate asset write-off extended
  - Goodbye to special purpose reporting for Charities?
  - The 2019-20 Federal Budget
  - Sweeping Changes to Insurance through Superannuation
  - What's involved in Aged Care
- Autumn 2019
  - Keeping Records Electronically
  - When Things Go Wrong
  - Curtain Soon to Fall on Medical Expenses Claims
  - Charity Fundraising Reform a Step Closer
  - How Are You Managing Your Business Risk?
  - Investing in the Ageing Population
  - How investors can benefit from urban renewal
- Summer 2018
  - Accelerated Tax Rate Reduction for Small Business
  - The Impact of Related Party Transactions on Charities
  - Good News on Single Touch Payroll for "Micro" Employers
  - Victorian Long Service Leave Laws Now in Force
  - Tax on Compensation From the Banks
  - Privacy Rules Impacting Business
  - What's Next for Australian Resources
  - Why You Should Write a Will
  - Struck by a Smooth Criminal
- Spring 2018
  - One-off Super Guarantee Amnesty
  - Victorian Long Service Leave Changes
  - Will Renshaw OAM
  - ATO Alert for Work Utes
  - Fringe Benefits for Religious Practitioners
  - ACNC Legislation Review Report
  - The Rise of Sustainable and Ipact Investing
  - Make my Retirement Funds last the Distance
  - SMSFs and your Retirement Horizon
- Winter 2018
  - 2018 Federal Budget
  - Beware when engaging contractors or employees
  - Superannuation - how much are Aussie's saving?
  - CGT and the family home
  - A charity Marketplace?
  - How to manage cash in your SMSF
  - Four types of insurance for the newly divorced.
- Spring 2017
  - Super Guarantee - The cost of getting it wrong
  - ANSC issues guidance on crowd funding
  - CGT to hit the family home for non-residents
  - ATO warning on claims for expenses
  - Landlords beware when replacing property chattels
  - Simplified GST reporting is here
  - Superannuation guarantee system review
  - Can you afford for your adult kids to live at home ?
  - Use your SMSF to teach your kids about finance
- Winter 2017
  - Are slow debtors hurting your business ?
  - Investment Property: Pre and Post 30 June
  - Company tax reforms pass the Senate with amendments
  - ATO monitoring ride sharing arrangements
  - ATO to focus on cash only business
  - Red Tape Reduction - Victorian Incorporated Associations
  - 'Voluntourism': how to make a difference in your retirement ?
  - Federal Budget 2017 - 6 things to consider
  - How to flip property for profit ?
- Autumn 2017
  - Are the Odds in Your Favour of Your Business Surviving?
  - Revenue Recognition: Changes for Not-for-profits
  - Selling the Backyard?
  - Removal of $1,000 GST Threshold for Imported Goods
  - ATO Debt Could Now Impact Your Credit Rating
  - Aged care – know what’s involved
  - Downsizing
  - Developing a Retirement Savings Plan
- Summer 2016
  - Planning for the New Year
  - ATO Statistics on Small Business raise concern
  - Time is ticking for the(expanded) $20,000 immediate write-off
  - Binging on Christmas expenses
  - Possible Fix to Fundraising Legislation
  - Asset Test Anomalies
  - Super changes now law
  - Economic outlook - What’s in store?
  - The Trump Presidency – what it means for you
- Spring 2016
  - Hows your revenue going for the first two months?
  - ACNC signals tough new stance
  - Uber, Airbnb and the ATO - What you need to know
  - What postcodes lose the most super?
  - Tax time is Scam time
  - Hoping rate cuts will bolster growth
  - How financially fit are you?
  - 8 tips to avoid cybercrime
- Winter 2016
  - Are you SuperStream ready?
  - Is your business structure still the right fit?
  - ATO warning on June 2016 unpaid Trust distributions to charities
  - Cutting red tape
  - "Eye-opening" is how Prue Fergus Griffin describes the search for aged care for her seriously ill father.
  - Budget signals Super changes
  - Are you a sprinter?
- Autumn 2016
  - Can you afford to sell your business?
  - Moving overseas? Don't forget the ATO
  - Capital Gains Tax and property - the sleeping giant
  - Survey provides a snapshot of not-for-profits
  - Daydreaming about your next holiday
  - Investing in a low rate environment
  - Safe as houses - Investing in property
- Summer 2015
  - Tips for a Tax Free Christmas
  - HECS-HELP Benefit – reducing your education debt
  - The ATO targets eBay sellers
  - The “evils” of administration costs
  - Protection to small business becomes law
  - There’s something special about Special Disability Trusts
  - Gearing-up for school fees?
  - Will you over-indulge this Christmas?
  - Mortgage paid off? Now what?
- Spring 2015
  - ASIC guide for private company directors
  - SuperStream update
  - Screws tighten on professional firms
  - Volunteers – are you at risk?
  - Who is looking at your charity information?
  - Public Benevolent Activities outside Australia
  - Handing over?
  - Market Update
  - The China syndrome: What's next?
  - Unpacking the dollar:
  - Access your super before you retire
- Winter 2015
  - Are you being scammed?
  - Taxable payments reporting for the building industry
  - Why using the 20k Budget tax deduction might be the wrong decision
  - More certainty for the charity sector
  - ATO view finalised on income tax exemption conditions
  - 10 steps to financial security in your 30s
  - Shares in a nutshell
  - Voluntary redundancy – should you take the money and run?
- Autumn 2015
  - Time to review salary packaging
  - The Future of the ACNC
  - Charities missing in action?
  - Divorce - what it means to you (and your business)
  - Avoid the Land Tax sting
  - Protection for Small Business from 1st July
  - Market Update
  - Is property still a good investment?
  - Insurance - Can you afford not to be protected?
- Summer 2014
  - It’s the ATO calling...or is it?
  - The top SMSF property investment mistakes
  - ACNC - uncertain times continue
  - Accounting Standards Update for Not For Profits
  - Market Update
  - How not to blow an inheritance
  - Financial advice you wish you’d known younger
- Spring 2014
  - ATO Initiatives for Small Business
  - Superannuation
  - ATO Targets Professionals
  - Governing Rules and Charitable Purposes
  - New Penalty Regime for SMSF Trustees
  - Market Update
  - Don’t be caught out
  - Lessons from the Financial Crisis
  - It’s business time: Helping small business women
- 2014 Fringe Benefits Tax Update
- Winter 2014
  - Claiming Medical Expenses
  - Payroll Tax Alert
  - Public Benevolent Institution Decision
  - Tax changes from 1st July
  - Future of the ACNC
  - Update on Superstream
  - Market Update
  - Dealing with the two percenters
  - The front-foot approach to aged care
- Autumn 2014
  - Some Clarity for Non Profits
  - Easy come, easy go: The PPSR & your business
  - Tax legislation clean up
  - Efficiency in Debt Management
  - Market Update
  - End of financial year planning starts now
  - Choosing aged care: what you need to know
  - Covering all bases with income protection
- Summer 2013
  - Improved Cash Flow
  - RDL Office Closure
  - ACNC Charity Portal
  - Super salary sacrifice arrangements in good shape?
  - Market Update
  - Getting it Right for the Grandkids
  - Six Key Issues for Grandparents
- Spring 2013
  - ATO Issues Warning
  - A new Government... What now for charities?
  - What makes a confident investor?
  - Another reason to check your caps
- Winter 2013
  - Audit or Review?
  - Federal Budget 2013 / 2014
  - SMSF Owners - hold onto your caps!
- Autumn 2013
  - Ato focus on school building funds
  - Save time on Superannuation Guarantee payments
  - ACNC - Annual Information Statements
  - Beat the clock at Tax time
  - Market update
- Winter 2012
  - Changing tax landscape for business
  - The Federal Budget and You
  - Split the Super - Share the Benefits
- Spring2012
  - Employee or Contractor?
  - ACNC carve out for "Basic Religious Charities"
  - Rate cuts not always good for investors
- Autumn 2012
  - Big changes for all Charities
  - Special Disability Trusts
  - 2011 / 2012 year end planning
- Summer 2011
- Spring 2011
- Winter 2011
- Autumn 2011
  - Natural Disasters: The impact on your investment portfolio
  - Have we changed?, Fraud: It won't happen to us
  - Providing Certainty for Trust
  - What's better for me... new or old van?
- Summer 2010
  - Scams Target Businesses
  - Office Closure
  - Planning for Aged Care
- Spring 2010
  - ATO Targets the Cash Economy
  - Easier for Expatriates
  - Changes to Companies limited by Guarantee Reporting
  - Why the Tax Office is Looking at your Facebook Profile
- Winter 2010
  - Reporting Obligations - Companies Limited by Guarantee
  - ATO comment on Word Investment case
  - "Where the Buck Stops" Some Brief Thoughts on Board Responsibility
  - Assisting small business measures deadline approaching
  - Help! I've put too much into my super fund
- Autumn 2010
  - How do I know how much my business is really worth?
  - SMSF Property Investment
  - Still Working and Over 65
- Summer 2009
  - Testing Times Ahead
  - Hidden charges on equipment purchases sting business owners
  - Self Managed Super Funds - What happens when you die?
  - Special Disability Trusts
- Spring 2009
  - Exceed Super Limit - Taxed up to 93%
  - New tax sting for Aussie working overseas
  - Q&A
  - Visiting Our Office?
  - The Good Oil on Insolvent Trading
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