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By Julia Hartman
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 …
(Download PDF) Bosanac’s case has taken a turn for the worse. https://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/full/2021/2021fcafc0158?fbclid=IwAR3KR9OTbrHLVJh6xLCx7Sb0nkX5KK1JHhrdIhcmRc6XIAamXH8TgQKbCn4 Initially, before a single judge of the Federal court Ms Bosanac was successful in holding onto the family home which she held in her name only. The ATO was after half of it to pay her husband’s tax bill. The Federal court found …
(Download PDF) Educating yourself and seeking advice is something you associate with property investing but not buying a home to live in. Well, it didn’t take long at all for me to come up with 12 mistakes I have seen people make when buying a property to use as their home. I list them below, …
Expats Beware the Australian Government is After Your Main Residence Exemption Again! The bill to remove the main residence exemption for expats made its way through both houses in the final days of the 2019 parliament. It is a little tamer than the 2017 version but can still apply retrospectively to destroy your main residence …