Julia's Blog
By Julia Hartman
LAST UPDATED – May 12 2021 (Download PDF) Time to start thinking about whether you would like to take advantage of the $150,000 (increased from $20,000 on 29th January, 2019) immediate tax deduction before the end of the financial year. Though it will still be available up to 30th June, 2023. The threshold varies depending …
(Download PDF) Small business owners, even micro businesses, are you making the most of the software available to eliminate, or at least reduce, physical paperwork? With Single Touch Payroll soon to become compulsory, even for the wages of business owners, it is time to come out of hiding! In the end you really will be …
(Download PDF) This blog focuses on the outcome of MWWD v FCT 2020 https://www.ato.gov.au/law/view/document?docid=JUD/2020ATC10-553/00001 It is worthy of a blog because it drives home two very important points that are regularly ignored because ‘everyone else is doing it’. So here it is in black and white: Point 1 – A payer can still have a …
(Download PDF) FBT and the Office Christmas Party There two important points you need to know. Firstly, that you are better to pay your staff a Christmas bonus and let them throw their own Christmas party. Second point is that there is no way you can dress up a Christmas party to be anything else …
Keeping the Nexus Between the Borrowing and the Expenditure What the borrowed money is used to buy determines whether the interest on the loan is tax deductible. That is the basic rule. The link between the borrowing and the expenditure is called the nexus. This nexus needs to be very clear. You need to be …