Entries by Maroo Advisory

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 […]

Accountant Jokes

Give him another chance The host of the convention says, “We are all here today to prove to the world that Accountants are not stupid. Can I have a volunteer?” One Accountant steps up. The host says to him, “What is 15 plus 15?” After 15 or 20 seconds he says “Eighteen.” Obviously everyone is […]

Unit Trust

What is a Trust? A trust is a fiduciary relationship in which a person (“trustee’) is the holder of an interest in property but is subject to an equitable obligation to use or keep the property for the benefit of another person or entity or to some commitment object or purpose. A non-discretionary trust is […]