Here you will find an archive of all past articles and news stories for your convenience.
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| Education Tax Refund |
July 10 |
| The Education Tax Refund lets parents claim a 50% tax refund on eligible
education expenses incurred during the year. The total eligible
education expenses are capped at $750 for primary school children and
$1,500 for secondary school children.
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| 2010 Budget Highlights |
July 10 |
| The Government delivers its third tranche of personal income tax
cuts that were promised in the 2007 election campaign.
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| Know Your Key Numbers |
Mar 10 |
| So how do you recognise the warning signs in a business? Key Performance
Indicators or KPIs let you monitor what is happening in the business
and the power of KPI's comes from a simple concept - What you can
measure you can manage. KPIs let you know where you stand at any given
moment so you can adapt or change your strategy to improve your results
right there and then.
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| Negative Gearing - Flavour Of The Month? |
Dec 09 |
| Buying and negatively gearing an investment property is a well
established practice in this country with approximately 30% of
residential properties now owned by investors. Many of our clients have
successfully grown their wealth using this long term, tax effective
strategy but we have also seen some financial disasters.
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| Become A Business Brain Surgeon |
Sept 09 |
| Are you working longer and taking home less than your staff? Are you working all hours of the day and night and still barely managing to keep your customers happy? Are you unable to delegate or outsource work to give you more time to work on your business? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, maybe its time you learnt what Brain Surgeons do. (Read More) |
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| 2008/09 Federal Budget |
Aug 09 |
| In December 2008 the Rudd Government announced that it would introduce a 10% temporary investment allowance to
encourage business owners to acquire plant and equipment. On 3 February, 2009 the Government announced that it
would expand and increase the temporary investment allowance to 30%. In the May Federal Budget the tax break was
increased to 50%.
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| New Small Business and General Business Tax Break |
April 09 |
| The Federal Government previously announced that it would introduce a temporary 'investment allowance' giving business owners an additional tax deduction equal to 10% of the cost of eligible depreciating assets. The tax deduction is on top of the usual capital (depreciation) deduction. The Government has now 'upped the ante', increasing both the amount and the scope of the allowance to be known as the 'Small Business and General Business Tax Break'. (Read More) |
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| The Taxman’s 2008/09 Targets |
Sept 08 |
| Each year the Tax Office publicly release its primary targets for their ‘compliance program’. It’s a valuable guide for taxpayers – forewarned is forearmed. The Tax Office will be paying particular attention to investors this year with a focus on key risk areas including the share market (46% of people now own shares) and capital gains tax events. (Read More) |
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| What is Negative Gearing? |
May 08 |
| By definition, Negative Gearing is where you borrow to acquire an
investment and the interest and other costs you incur exceed the income
you receive from the investment. While Negative Gearing is
commonly associated with rental properties, it can also be applied to
other types of income-producing investments such as shares and managed
funds.
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| How To Save Dollars On Your Mortgage |
October 07 |
| It’s always surprising to learn how many people stick to monthly home
loan repayments. By paying fortnightly you can save thousands of
dollars simply because there are 26 fortnights in a year.
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| Play It Safe With Online Banking |
October 07 |
| Understandably, some people have reservations about the security of online banking. After all, if I can access my own details via the internet, can someone else do the same?
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| Audit Hit List |
June 07 |
| If you bought or sold an investment property in the past year, pocketed
some of those resource stock profits or continued to make losses on
your rental property then there is every chance you will receive a
letter from the Australian Taxation Office. Between now and October the
Tax Office will be writing to people it thinks might need ‘help’
complying with the law when preparing their tax returns.
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| Driving Your Tax Dollar Further ... |
April 07 |
| If you use your car for income producing purposes, you could be entitled to claim a tax deduction for motor vehicle expenses. Once you have established your entitlement to claim your motor vehicle
expenses, you can then select one of four methods and apply
the one that provides the highest possible tax deduction.
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| Getting Into Gear - Negative Gearing Explained |
March 07 |
| With close to half-a-million property investors around Australia, using other people’s money to increase personal wealth is almost a way of life in this country. Whilst Negative Gearing is commonly associated with rental properties, it can also be applied to other types of income-producing investments such as shares and managed funds.
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| Buying A Vehicle? How You Can Save $ With Fleet Discounts! |
March 07 |
| You can potentially save thousands of dollars off the retail price of passenger and commercial vehicles through our affiliation with the national vehicle buying service, Private Fleet. An Australian owned and operated company, Private Fleet are regarded as a large buying entity in the motor vehicle industry and dealers give them access to fleet sales discounts potentially saving you up to several thousand dollars off the retail purchase price of new motor vehicles.
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