Entries by Maroo Advisory

SPRING 2021 Tax Bulletin

In This Issue: Loss Carry Back Tax Offset (“LCB”) – To carry back or not to carry back, that is the question! Business of Letting Rental Properties Expenses Associated with Vacant Land – ITR 2021/D5 Loss Carry Back Tax Offset (“LCB”) – To carry back or not to carry back, that is the question! The […]

WINTER 2021 Tax Bulletin

In This Issue Tax Traps for Subdivision of Land GST, Supply of Property & Requirement to Register Mussalli v FCT – Another Capital vs Revenue Decision Changes for Expats Selling Their Former Homes Apply for 2021 and Later Years 2021 End of Financial Year Tax Traps for Subdivision of Land As property prices go up […]

AUTUMN 2021 Tax Bulletin

In This Issue: Restructuring Businesses to Corporate Entities New ATO Guidance on Travel Expenses Choosing a Business Structure Margin Scheme Valuation Method Restructuring Businesses to Corporate Entities There are compelling reasons to transfer businesses from trusts to companies. The major advantage of operating a business through a company is the ability to retain income. The […]

Extension of FBT Concessions for Small Businesses (Jan 2021)

As we begin a New Year, many businesses will be eligible for a number of small business concessions for the first time due to an increase in the aggregated turnover threshold from $10 million to $50 million. The threshold increase was first announced in the 2020–21 Federal Government Budget in October 2020 and has now […]

Federal Budget 2020/2021

IN THIS ISSUE | OVERVIEW |
TEMPORARY FULL EXPENSING OF CAPITAL ASSETS | LOSS CARRY-BACK FOR COMPANIES | PERSONAL TAX PLAN – BROUGHT FORWARD | JOBMAKER HIRING CREDIT | INCREASE OF THE SMALL BUSINESS ENTITY TURNOVER THRESHOLD | MISCELLANEOUS FBT CONCESSIONS

SPRING 2020 Tax Bulletin

IN THIS ISSUE: JOBKEEPER 2.0 LEGISLATION | CORPORATES & PRIVATE GROUPS ALERT | FBT ISSUES DURING COVID-19 | SUPERANNUATION MEASURES- AN UPDATE | DEBT RECOVERY AND INSOLVENT TRADING MORATORIUMS EXTENDED TO 31 DECEMBER 2020

True Blue

In the company of the Lord An Australian, an Irishman and an Englishman were sitting in a bar. There was only one other person in the bar. The three men kept looking at this other man, for he seemed terribly familiar. They stared and stared, wondering where they had seen him before, when suddenly the […]

Tax

  The Big Squeeze The local bar was so sure that its bartender was the strongest man around that they offered a standing $1,000 bet. The bartender would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran into a glass, and hand the lemon to a patron. Anyone who could squeeze one more drop of juice […]

Clever Puns

The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian . She was only a whisky maker but he loved her still. A rubber band pistol […]