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Download PDF General Deductions: You can only pay a maximum of 12 months in advance. In the case of interest payments check if the bank will let you do this and that they do treat it as an interest payment not just let it reduce the loan balance. If you pay rates, insurance …
Download PDF There is so much material around about buying and owning an investment property but not much about how it all works out in the end. The general idea is the investment property is negatively geared for much of your working life. The losses are then recovered by the capital gain you will realise …
Download PDF – Updated 3rd May 2025 If your Home or Investment Property Was Damaged in the Fires or the Floods, The taxman is lurking behind those new green shoots of regrowth and what a bonanza to be had. The ATO can easily administer through already established data matching with land titles offices and insurance …
Download PDF Technically we do not have a death tax but there are lots of ways that death can be a windfall for the ATO. This blog looks at some of those traps and what you can do to avoid them. These traps can catch average Mum and Dad taxpayers who are not in …
Download PDF How would you interpret this piece of legislation? 900-50(1) You can deduct a *travel allowance expense for travel within Australia without getting written evidence or keeping travel records if the Commissioner considers reasonable the total of the losses or outgoings you claim for travel covered by the allowance. Each year the ATO …