Editor's note: On Thursday, 2 April, we conducted a webinar, hosted by Senior Tax Trainer Robyn Jacobson, on the implications of this package. Click here for more information and to register for a copy of the recording. Background The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic...
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The Superannuation Legislative Landscape
The Government’s Fair and Sustainable Superannuation Reforms have now been in place for over a year and the measures announced in this year's Federal Budget continue to make changes to the superannuation environment. It is with some challenge that we...
Tax Fundamentals: CGT Events
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, someone is...
The work-related expenses tax gap
On 12 July 2018, the ATO published the income tax gap for ‘individuals not in business’, comprising around 9.6 million individuals who are not in business and earn income from salary and wages and investments. The estimated net tax gap for these individuals...
Tax Fundamentals: What advice can I rely on?
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 have...
Residential Rental Properties: The New Depreciation Rules
On 1 July 2017, changes were made to the tax law in relation to the claiming of depreciation on certain assets used in residential rental properties. Since then, investors in residential rental properties have not been able to claim decline in value...
SG Amnesty: Q&A
Background On 24 May 2018, the Government announced a one-off, 12-month Superannuation Guarantee Amnesty (the Amnesty), and introduced legislation into Parliament, which allows non-complying employers to self-correct any unpaid superannuation guarantee (SG)...
ATO compliance and administrative approach to company tax rate changes
Background Since 2015, there have been many changes to the tax laws, both enacted and proposed, which set out the eligibility for the lower corporate tax rate. Since 2017, there have also been legislative changes, both enacted and proposed, to the rate at...
How to Prepare a 2018 Company Tax Return with Unenacted Measures
Our Banter blog on the changes to the Base rate entity rules in November 2017 detailed the measures contained in the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enterprise Tax Plan Base Rate Entities) Bill 2017 (‘the Bill’) which propose to improve the current law by setting...
Multiple Employers, SG and the Concessional Contributions Cap
Schedule 2 to the Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Superannuation Measures No. 1) Bill 2018 proposes to amend the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (SGAA) to allow individuals to avoid unintentionally breaching their concessional contributions...
Unenacted Tax Measures at 30 June 2018: Bills Wrap Up
In wrapping up the Autumn session of Parliamentary sittings, the Senate adjourned at 8.17 pm on Thursday 28 June 2018 until Monday 13 August 2018. At the close of Parliament, surprisingly and disappointingly, the backlog of highly anticipated tax bills was...
