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) A trust is either discretionary or fixed in the ATO’s eyes anything in between is a charade. A chook on stilts is not a flamingo. The cycle has come full circle, must be enough new players in the property market to make it worth promoting hybrid trusts again. I guess there is a …
(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) 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, …
(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 …