The ATO has updated its webpage containing the fringe benefits tax (‘FBT’) rates and thresholds for the 2017/18 to 2021/22 FBT years. Two amounts that were not previously announced for the 2021/22 FBT year are: The FBT record keeping exemption is $8,923 (up from $8,853 for the 2020/21 FBT year); and The statutory or benchmark…
The ATO has confirmed that more than 60,000 businesses have not yet complied with lodgment requirements under the taxable payments reporting system (‘TPRS’) for 2019/20.
Your accountant should be planning strategies to improve your business, tax and personal outcomes months in advance, not just doing your tax return. Even if ‘you’re not their biggest client’ your accountant should be working proactively for you. Tax savings are made through planning, not hoping. If you don’t have a handle on your tax…
Well before the end of financial year is the time to discuss the actions you can take to reduce your tax.
With the “new normal” continuing to evolve in Victoria, most business owners are feeling frustrated or concerned by the lack of certainty the future holds. We’re living it too and understand the significant challenges and stress you may be experiencing. Our focus for the next few months is to help and support our clients through…
There is a big difference between tax planning and tax return preparation. Tax planning is proactive, and highly recommended as advance planning can make it possible for business owners to effectively minimise their tax obligation, and importantly, pay no more tax than they need to.
Like many business owners, you have spent years fully invested in your business, personally and financially, and as you nudge closer towards retirement, you may be starting to worry about your super and life after business. If you are selling your business, CGT concessions could help you boost your super.
The ATO can disclose certain business tax debt information to external credit reporting bureaus, following the enactment of legislation in late 2019.
The ATO will automatically defer lodgments and payments for taxpayers living in identified bushfire impacted postcodes, meaning income tax, activity statement, SMSF and FBT lodgments are deferred until 28 May 2020.
Treasury has released its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook for 2019/20, forecasting a surplus of approximately $5 billion.Other tax-related measures incude a discretion for taxpayers to undertake a record-keeping course and a new third party reporting regime for businesses operating in the sharing economy, such as Uber and Airbnb.