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Tax
Tax Planning Tips - 2018
Here are our top five tax planning tips for 2018. It’s early June now, and a perfect time to go over these tips.
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CGT and the family home
Expats and foreign residents beware! The family home of foreign residents and expats may be taxed if legislation before Parliament is passed by the Senate.
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Tax Deductions In Danger
A recent Parliamentary Inquiry into Tax Deductions created some fairly sensational headlines about what and how deductions are being claimed – $22 billion worth to be exact.
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
You have had a great idea, worked really really hard, endured the late nights, a few bumps along the way, built up a good business and now it should be time to reap the benefits. But now things have taken a serious turn…..down.
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Main Residence Exemption – The Burden of Truth
I would expect that the majority of property owners and investors have heard something about the “six year main residence exemption for Capital Gains Tax purposes”. If not, here is a brief rundown:
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Death and small business CGT concessions
When a person dies, their assets are transferred to their legal personal representative (LPR) or are acquired by a surviving joint tenant, where the deceased owned those assets as joint tenants with another person. As there is a change of ownership a capital gains tax (CGT) event arises.
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Property Inheritance – CGT & Property Sales
In my previous article I mentioned that if you inherit a dwelling and later sell or otherwise dispose of it, you may be exempt from capital gains tax (CGT), depending on when the deceased acquired the property, when they died and whether the property has been used to produce income (such as rent).
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Innovative investor incentives
If your innovative idea has real legs for commercialisation in business then the government has set up a tremendous incentive for venture capitalist investors. It’s a sign our politicians are wanting to support the innovation of entrepreneurial Australians and it’s also an indication of the global vision of these entrepreneurs.
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