The ATO's power to access taxpayer information The ATO’s wide-ranging formal and informal information gathering powers are supported by an arsenal of powerful computers, connections with other government bodies and an array of sanctions to assure cooperation, which...
An appreciation of depreciation
Background A key module in TaxBanter’s Tax Fundamentals program is Capital Allowances. There is an array of different thresholds, applicable dates, calculation methods and hidden peculiarities throughout the provisions. Given depreciation deductions are as relevant...
Tax Fundamentals: CGT Events
Print this article. Pop quiz! … How many CGT events are there? Our Tax Fundamentals trainer, Lee-Ann Hayes asks this question often of her groups and enjoys the varying replies she gets back. She has heard everything from five to 200 CGT events. Occasionally,...
Tax Fundamentals: What advice can I rely on?
Print this article. In 2015, the Government released its tax White paper titled ‘Re:think Tax discussion paper’. As part of the discussion on complexity, the paper noted: In the 1950s Australia had a tax system made up of around 1,080 pages of tax law. … Now we...