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- The pitfalls of accessing your company profits
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- Happy new year - Take all the tax advantages you can
- What changed on 1 July 2013
- ATO first the first warning shot
- Electronic Vehicle Logbook Apps
- Changes to FBT vehicle calculations
- Freeze on changes to super
- Boxing champ charity auction to help PCYC
- Roundup: Electoral promises and small business
- Making the most of your losses
- Gone Phising - Top Scams
- Add newborns to your health insurance
- Reminder about increased super gurarntee payments
- Has super become too commoditised
- Tax treatment of deceased estates
- ASIC boosts privacy for home-based busines
- Directors pulled up on unpaid super
- 2013 Federal Election Infrastructure
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- What does the Abbot Government mean to you?
- No surprises this Christmas
- More tax changes from Jan 1 2014
- Hidden dangers of salary sacrifice agreements
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- eBay entrepreneurs in ATO sights
- Don't let your share structure trip you up
- Why your June BAS is an audit trigger
- Taxpayer not carrying on a share trading business
- Contractors vs employees - can you tell the difference?
- Audit protection - ATO and other regulatory filings
- Cash economy letters from the ATO
- Maximum asset test failed
- Whats your behaviour style?
- Christmas in September starts retail profit countdown
- New Business Affilliate Aussie Baulkham Hills
- Deductibility of credit card fees to pay personal income tax debt
- Australia and Singapore to share tax information
- New fact sheet for Tax and Government Audit Protection
- Want to keep up to date
- Lodgement of business activity statements
- New SMSF member verification system
- Why everyone with a SMSF needs a will
- Pregnant pause - understanding the new paid parental leave scheme
- Bates Cosgrave Christmas Office Closure
- Is the ATO a Christmas party Scrooge?
- Declaring or paying dividends
- Charity donations at Christmas
- 2011 Land Tax Notices
- Looking to get a better home loan deal
- Government announces Flood Levy
- Future regulation of financial planners providing tax advice
- GST Crackdown Update
- ATO enhances scrip for scrip rollover measure
- Changing Rules for Trusts
- 2011 Australian Business Survey
- Are you ready for social media?
- Paying super for contractors
- Know when to change your business structure
- Trust reforms and dividends
- Benchmark your business
- Fringe benefits tax records due 31 March
- Labour hire arrangements and discretionary trusts
- investments by trustees not always on capital account
- Ten year February high for business failures
- Advance Pricing Arrangements for SMEs
- New FBT rates for year starting 1 April 2011
- How do I know if I need to pay FBT?
- FBT & Super - things you should know
- Get paid to innovate
- A nip and tuck federal budget
- Cutting back government allowances and spending on incentives
- 2011 Federal Budget Winners and Losers
- 2011 Federal Budget Reforms to Compliance
- 2011 Federal Budget Economic Overview
- end of financial year housekeeping
- Timing your tax liability
- Permanent Savings
- New tax breaks for small business
- Taxation of trust income - draft law released
- Simplification of GST rules in relation to taxes, fees and charges
- Termination payments – unused long service leave payments and overseas employment
- Flood levy passed
- Tax Planning What are the Real Benefits
- Can your SMSF buy art?
- Tax invoice requirements clarified
- Depreciating assets and 2011 effective life tables
- Excess contributions tax and remission of penalties in connection with a release authority
- Compulsory reporting of contractor payments in building industry
- Employee income exemptions in a foreign country and in Australia
- GHP launch fuel enhancement process to reduce costs and emissions
- Predictions and realitities for the new financial year
- Directors face greater scrutiny
- New Factsheet - Selling your business
- Relocation allowances to relocate an employee overseas
- Property transactions and record keeping
- Deductability of unpaid directors fees
- Preparing for the rollercoaster ride
- 5 tips to differentiate your business
- Don’t pay more tax than you need to
- Carbon tax regime and tax breaks
- Audit protection renewals
- Lodgement extension for TFN withholding report
- Div 7A benchmark interest rate
- Input tax credits not claimable for business preparation costs
- What does the new R&D tax credit offer you?
- Join us at MyBizExpo for a coffee and a chat
- Paid leave for Dads
- Juggling tax losses
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- Property and SMSF Risks Rules and the Unexpected
- What’s the difference between price and value?
- MyBiz Expo and SME Australia Launch
- Building the Right Business Guide
- New Fact Sheets Starting Buying or Selling a Business
- Stanardised deduction for work related expenses
- Small business depreciation rule changes
- Boardroom Sessions
- Are you entitled to a GST refund
- Buying a business More than just the sale price
- Director penalty legislation withdrawn
- Christmas in July The Ups and Downs of Christmas Marketing
- Boardroom Sessions for Foreign Exchange and Business Grants
- NSW Government Payroll Rebate Scheme
- Tax Loss Incentive for infrastructure projects
- The business realities of managing Christmas
- Significant changes in the ‘mini Budget’
- Santa’s Australian Tax Position under the spotlight of the ATO
- Tax efficient gift giving
- Taxation of trusts consultation paper released
- Proposed transfer pricing rule changes
- New international tax section
- Client in focus: QuickVisas
- Bates Cosgrave Christmas Closure
- Perspectives Your Business in 2012
- SMSF trustees and acquiring an asset with an existing ‘charge’
- Proposed reforms to tax losses recoupment regime
- Maximum net asset value test and reduction for liabilities on sale costs
- Failure to comply with private ruling is not a failure to take reasonable care
- Company directors and ‘phoenix’ activities
- Taxpayer deemed to be an Australian tax resident
- Personal property securities register
- Cashflow
- Second coming of the GFC
- How do you know if your business is heading for trouble
- Changes to Living Away From Home Allowance
- China Spotlight Features of Chinese Income Tax Law
- Private health insurance income test legislation passed in lower house
- What is the Personal Property Securities Register
- GST and financial supplies
- Removal of trading stock election for SMSFs
- 5 ways to manage your tax downward
- Perspectives Managing Risk
- 1982 to 2012 The Evolution of Australian Income Tax
- Commissioner's powers to withhold refunds extended
- Reporting of super contributions on payslips
- Liabilities reduce the maximum net asset value
- Reminder: FBT Vehicle Reporting
- The truth about online business
- Business Registration Changes
- Buying property as part of your SMSF: it's still debt
- Transfer pricing regime changes
- Uptick in GST Audits
- Changes to trust distributions
- Understanding tax effective investments
- FBT Rates and thresholds from April 1
- 2012-2013 Federal Budget
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- End of financial year tax planning
- Trust legislation may bite deep for unprepared
- Watch out for Division 7a
- Be aware of aggressive tax planning schemes
- Living away from home?
- EOFY super new rules, deductions and off market transfers
- LAHFA reforms deferred to October 2012
- International recruitment migration and LAFHA Free Seminar
- Pay your super on time
- Seminar highlights visa and LAFHA issues for temporary residents
- Is the tax office coming for you?
- Developing your export markets
- Taxation of fixed trusts
- Loss carryback for companies
- R&D tax incentive online eligibility and calculation tool
- Stronger Super measures introduced
- House of Reps signals more changes to LAFHA legislation
- Landlords the ATO and deductions
- Reforms to LAFHA passed by Parliament
- R&D tax credits paid quarterly
- ATO’s clarified compliance approach to SMEs and high wealth taxpayers
- Non-residents & Australian sourced royalties
- The value of goodwill
- Transfer Pricing - The international tax trap
- More SMSFs will be made non-compliant
- $25m cut from Export Market Development Grant
- 5 things that will make or break your business’s Christmas
- Bates Cosgrave is Moving
- Directors personally liable for employee’s super
- Keeping the taxman out of your Christmas hamper
- 2013 The Year Ahead
- Bates Cosgrave Christmas office closure 2012
- Further changes to the transfer pricing regime
- SMSFs and arrangements to purchase property
- Data matching for $10k vehicles
- Simplified depreciation rules for small business
- R&D Tax incentives important reminder
- SMSFs: failing to pay the minimum pension
- Travel deduction of FIFO disallowed
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