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Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Attending to a significant transaction while you manage the day to day business can be difficult. Often business owners are so busy working in the business that they do not seek the advice of a tax professional on a significant transaction and as a result the overall tax cost can be significantly more than it should have been. Then you realise the transaction could have been structured dif ..
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
FBT Changes The Federal Government has announced that the statutory formula method for both salary-sacrificed and employer-provided cars will be removed, with effect from 1 April 2014. From this date, all new car fringe benefits for vehicles will be calculated using the operating cost method. This means that employees using their vehicle for work-related travel will still be able to us ..
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Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Your financial picture just got clearer Welcome to the new financial year. It’s time to embrace what technology can do for us – make our lives easier. We know you don’t like paperwork. In fact, in our recent client survey 81% of our clients said that they wanted access to their financial world via a client portal. Well ... here’s our new Wealth Management clien ..
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Thursday, June 06, 2013
Picture this ... You own a home and have a mortgage. You have 2 young children that attend Primary School. You become ill and are unable to work for 6 months. How will you make the mortgage repayments? Think about it this way. If you are unable to work for an extended period due to illness or injury, how will you meet your mortgage repayments and other bills and expenses? Without an income ..
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Thursday, May 16, 2013
If you believe like many people that Tony Abbott will be elected in September this year, then it will be entirely up to him and the Coalition as to how much of this Budget is kept, tweaked or thrown away. The Coalition hasn’t yet been particularly specific on what they would do in office economically or otherwise. So this adds a layer of uncertainty as to whether some of the 2013/14 Bud ..
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