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- Category: General
- Non-compete clauses and worker restraints under review
- How much is my business worth?
- Budget 2024-25
- Warning on SMSF asset valuations
- The problem when the evidence doesn’t match what the taxpayer tells the ATO
- Contractor or employee?
- Can my SMSF invest in property development?
- Stage 3 personal income tax cuts redesigned
- Tax on super balances above $3m hits Parliament
- The key influences of 2024
- Bah humbug: The Christmas tax dilemma
- The controversial case of the taxpayer who claimed a loss on their home
- Warning: Redrawing investment loans
- When is food GST-free?
- 30% tax on super earnings on balances above $3 million
- Fixed-term employment contracts limited to 2 years
- When trust distributions to a company are left unpaid
- Up to 10 years in prison for deliberate ‘wage theft’
- Workers owed $3.6bn in super guarantee
- Self-education: What can you claim?
- 30% tax on super earnings above $3m
- The ‘Airbnb’ Tax
- $20k deduction for ‘electrifying’ your business
- Budget 2023-24
- Update: Tax on super balances above $3m
- Company money: A guide for owners for owners
- What sharing platforms are sharing with the ATO
- Selling a business? The pros and cons of earn-out clauses
- How Does Tax Apply to Electric Cars?
- End of the FBT year fast approaching
- What will the ATO be Asking about your Holiday Home?
- The ‘Super’ Wars
- Future earnings for super balances above $3m taxed at 30% from 2025-26
- What’s the Deal with Working from Home?
- SMSF reporting changes from 1 July 2023
- The ATO’s final position on risky trust distributions
- Is ‘downsizing’ worth it?
- Full throttle in 2023
- How good is ChatGPT at tax?
- What do the ‘Secure Jobs, Better Pay’ reforms mean?
- Missed the director ID deadline? Now what?
- Avoiding the FBT Christmas Grinch!
- Lessons from a data breach
- Australian super funds gorge on cryptocurrency
- Director ID number deadline looming
- 1 October minimum wage increase
- ATO contacts ‘at risk’ professional services firms
- COVID downgraded but not gone
- States move on property based taxes
- To cut or not to cut? Stage three personal tax cuts
- Clients with self managed superannuation funds (SMSF) often ask what assets the SMSF can acquire.
- 120% deduction for skills training and technology costs
- How to sell your business
- Register your .au domain!
- ATO refocus on debt collection
- What to expect from the new Government
- Tax Time Targets
- What’s changing on 1 July 2022?
- Can I claim a tax deduction for my gym membership?
- Fuel tax credit changes
- The 120% deduction for skills training and technology costs
- ATO ramps up heat on directors
- Are Your Contractors Really Employees?
- Federal Budget 2022-23
- Immediate Deductions Extended
- The ATO’s Attack on Trusts and Trust Distributions
- Pandemic Leave Disaster Payments rules change
- Cash injection for struggling businesses
- PCR and RAT tests to be tax deductible, FBT free
- Year of the Tiger: Roaring or Bellowing?
- Businesses & Individuals – 2022: The year ahead
- Businesses – The top Christmas tax questions
- Individuals – The ‘Backpacker Tax’ and the High Court
- Businesses – If Santa was an Australian tax resident
- Businesses – Recruiting new employees? The November 1 superannuation rule changes
- Individuals & SMSFs – What happens to your superannuation when you die?
- Businesses & Individuals – Unwinding COVID-19 Relief
- Businesses – Mental Health Support for Business Owners
- Individuals & SMSFs – Divorce, Superannuation and the Gender Divide
- Businesses & Individuals – What now? Unwinding the Pandemic
- Businesses & Individuals – Are COVID-19 grants and funding tax free?
- Businesses – Growing your business value
- Businesses & Individuals – Lockdown support update
- Businesses – Afterpay’s $39bn pay day
- Businesses & Individuals – New laws target sharing economy platforms
- SMSFs – 6 Member SMSFs – the issues and opportunities
- Businesses – Business in a post pandemic environment
- Businesses & Individuals – Lock-downs: What help is available
- Khourys & Associates Response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- COVID-19: Let’s take it online.
- Individuals – Am I taxed on an insurance payout?
- Individuals – Work from home expenses under scrutiny & the perils of browsing Facebook
- Businesses & Individuals – What changes on 1 July 2021?
- SMSFs – Your SMSF: when expenses and investments are not at arm’s-length
- Individuals- Tax exemption for ‘granny flat’ arrangements
- Businesses – The New Lifetime Director IDs
- Businesses & Individuals – National licence recognition for tradies
- Businesses – JobMaker fails to boost employment
- Businesses – Tax treatment of JobKeeper payments handed back to ATO
- Businesses – ATO targets profits of professional service firms
- Individuals – The 1 July 2021 superannuation changes
- Businesses – The Pandemic Productivity Gap
- Businesses & Individuals – FBT 2021: Tax & Employee Benefits
- Businesses & Individuals – COVID-19 Vaccinations and the Workplace
- Businesses – Why are some businesses returning JobKeeper to the ATO?
- Businesses – Winding-up: Simplifying small business insolvency
- Businesses – Sole trader granted access to JobKeeper with backdated ABN
- Businesses – The final stage of JobKeeper and how to access it
- Businesses – How to sell your business
- 2021 Risks & Opportunities
- Individuals – Last chance to access COVID-19 early access to super
- Businesses – Extended December JobKeeper deadlines
- Businesses – Refunds for Tax Losses
- Businesses – Tax deductions for investing in your business
- Businesses – JobMaker Hiring Credits: What We Know So Far
- Businesses – Preventing a tsunami of insolvencies
- Businesses – JobKeeper: The next steps
- Businesses- JobKeeper Alert
- Businesses- Has COVID-19 devalued your business?
- Businesses- Forecasting during a pandemic
- Businesses- Question of the month
- Individuals – Your work from home questions answered
- SMSFs – COVID-19 and your SMSF
- Businesses & Individuals – COVID-19 Update; Where to get help if you need it
- Businesses & Individuals – Increased flexibility for Parental Leave Pay for self-employed
- Individuals – Minimum wage increases by 1.75%
- Businesses – JobKeeper and termination payments (breakout box)
- Businesses & Individuals – The ATO on COVID-19 fraud warpath
- What’s changing on 1 July?
- Businesses – 1 July company tax rate reduction
- Businesses & Individuals – Have casual workers been granted annual leave?
- Businesses & Individuals – The ATO’s JobKeeper audit targets
- COVID-19 Stimulus Measures
- COVID-19: Let’s take it online.
- Super Guarantee Amnesty – Important Information for Employers
- Khourys & Associates Response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- Businesses & Individuals – Commonwealth Economic Response to the Coronavirus
- Businesses & Individuals – How to get your Payroll right
- Businesses – FBT Hot Spots
- SMSFs – Alerts to protect SMSFs from fraud
- Individuals – ATO targets ‘lifestyle’ assets
- Bushfire support and assistance
- Individuals – CGT and the family home: expats and foreigners excluded from tax exemption
- Businesses – 5 things that will make or break your business’ Christmas
- Individuals – Bushfire Relief from ATO Obligations
- Individuals – Vacant land deduction changes hit ‘Mum & Dad’ property developments
- Individuals & Businesses – Can the tax office take money out of your account? Your right to know
- Individuals & Businesses – Calculating Super Guarantee: The new rules
- Individuals – CGT and the family home: expats and foreigners targeted again
- Individuals – Using the Cents Per Kilometre Method
- Businesses – Deductions for a Company or Trust Home-Based Business
- Businesses- Federal Court provides Clarification on the PSI Rules
- Individuals – Rental property expenses – what you can and can’t claim
- Businesses – The $11.1bn small business tax shortfall
- SMSFs – Are all your SMSF eggs in one basket?
- Businesses – Why the Government does not want your business accepting cash payments of $10,000 or more
- Individuals – Tax treatment of compensation from financial institutions
- Individuals – Confusion over personal income tax changes. What are you really entitled to?
- SMSFs – Review Insurance Inside your SMSF
- SMSFs – Review the Fund’s Investment Strategy
- Businesses – New Rules for Immediate Write-offs
- Businesses – Employees and Payment Summaries
- Individuals – Earning Money from the Sharing Economy
- Businesses – Single Touch Payroll Update
- Individuals – Rental Property Deductions
- Individuals – Working from Home
- SMSFs – Contributions Must be Received by 30 June
- Key Dates