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Download PDF Unused contributions are those left over from previous years when you and your employer did not use up your concessional contribution cap for that year. They can be used to allow you to make tax deductible superannuation contributions up to more than just your concessional contribution cap for the current year. Concessional …
Last Updated: 29th May 2026 Download PDF If you want to make a superannuation contribution and claim it in your 2026 tax return you best get a wriggle on. The contribution has to be safely in the superannuation fund by the 30th June. This post addresses the practicalities of making the contribution and dealing with …
Download PDF I am very disappointed with this budget it claims to help people buy their own home but throws the homeless and those not in a position to buy under a bus. A small investor buying an established home to provide rental accommodation will pay more tax than an investor in shares, …
Download PDF What is a developing country? Bhutan has a maximum speed limit of 60kmph, most of the time you are lucky to be able to do 30kmph. The roads are narrow, steep, windy, shared with pedestrians, horses, cows, dogs, yaks, monkeys and occasionally the toddler children of road workers who seem to know …
Download PDF This was an appeal by the ATO to the Federal Court when they lost an ARTA case called Shaw’s Case. Where an employee long haul truck driver who was paid an allowance for travel expenses was found to have genuinely incurred travel expenses, ie he had to eat! The truck driver was …