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Since the GFC, we have witnessed some interesting dynamics in the loan market. Smaller finance companies struggled to get finance for customers, with many exiting the market. The big banks seized this opportunity to capture extra market share after ...

By Rod Dickinson onNovember 21, 2014

The government has axed several tax concessions for small businesses when it abolished the mining tax in September 2014. Affected businesses will need to amend tax returns in which the concessions were claimed and pay back taxes.   They may also need to ...

By Roy Ditmarsch onOctober 24, 2014

Prime Minister Tony Abbott released this week the government’s National Industry Investment and Competitiveness Agenda. Amongst other things, it included proposed changes to the legislation on the way taxation is calculated on employee share options. Why ...

By Scott Young onOctober 18, 2014

We have all forgotten things, Project DO IT is a safe approach for declaring any foreign income or assets you may have missed and is a generous initiative by the ATO. What is Project DO IT?  Project DO IT is an initiative that allows taxpayers to ...

By Marc Walsh onSeptember 28, 2014