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Tax Planning – the good, the bad and the ugly
When is tax planning aggressive?
Australian tax laws are complex and can be hard to navigate. Without specialist assistance, you risk getting things wrong.
Effective tax planning is essential to help you to legally minimise your tax, helping you save money and plan for your future.
Australian tax laws contain a variety of rules intended to protec
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Tax Residency
Are you an Australian working overseas? Your residency status will affect your liability to tax on foreign earned income
A recent case in the AAT concerned an individual working in Oman, who successfully claimed to be a non-resident of Australia, despite being domiciled in Australia […][…]
Uncategorized
Tax Crime: Failure to Lodge Tax Returns
Did you know that the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) can prosecute you for failure to lodge a tax return and, even worse, if you are convicted, […][…]
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Tax fraud can lead to prison
Tax fraud or evasion is treated very seriously by the courts. There are close to 100 serious criminal tax offence matters currently before the courts for […][…]
Tax Advice
Tax: employee or contractor?
It is critical you correctly classify a worker as either an ‘employee’ or a ‘contractor’. If your worker is in fact an employee there are significant […][…]
Superannuation
SMSF: co-trustee not acting properly? Take action immediately
Superannuation legislation does not deal with the situation of one trustee behaving improperly in relation to their Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) obligations and the other […][…]
Superannuation
Superannuation: SMSF – LRBAs – Non-arm’s length income
One of the benefits of a Self-Managed Superannuation Fund (SMSF) is the 15% tax rate. However if income is ‘non-arm’s length’, the income will be subject to […][…]