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By Julia Hartman
Download PDF Is it really giving unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s when you pay tax on your earnings to save up and buy an asset, then inflation increases the value of the asset so that if you sell it or gift it you have to pay more tax? It looks to me more like …
Download PDF – Updated 15th November 2022 Home Deposits – Made Simple Two Years @ $200 Per Week and No LMI Combine the First Home Guarantee with the Super Saver Scheme to buy a home with nearly one third of your deposit being tax savings. If you have a child the government will provide you with …
Download PDF At least the Reserve Bank has slowed down its rate of increase to only ¼%. Maybe that is a good sign the rate rises will stop soon. These days I am regularly asked whether a client should fix their loan. This is all about which way rates will go over the fixing period. …
Download PDF Along with the increase in property values comes the land tax grab. Many private residences alone may be over the $600,000 threshold. Relax private residences are exempt from land tax but the Queensland state revenue might not know this. You may have recently received a land tax assessment in the mail and discarded …
Download PDF – Updated 8th April 2022 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 …