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Selling taxable Australian property? You may need a clearance certificate from the ATO

Posted by Team AVS on 20 Mar, 2020  0 Comments

If an Australian resident is considering selling property, they should apply for an ATO clearance certificate. If a property vendor does not apply for a clearance certificate and present it to the purchaser, the purchaser is required to withhold 12.5% of the purchase price for CGT purposes on properties that have a market value of $750,000 or more.

The legislation, which applies from 1 July 2017, aims to make sure foreign resident property ven

New rules for salary sacrificing to super

Posted by Team AVS on 10 Mar, 2020  0 Comments

For some employees, sacrificing part or all of their salary to a complying superannuation fund is a great way to boost retirement savings. But two recent changes may affect your obligations as their employer.

These changes, effective from 1 January 2020, relate to how you work out your superannuation guarantee (SG) obligations when an employee makes super contributions by salary sacrificing. The changes are:

The amount your employee sacr

Transparency Of Tax Debts

Posted by Team AVS on 2 Mar, 2020  0 Comments

A new law allows the ATO to report tax debt information to credit reporting bureaus in certain circumstances. What could this mean for clients with outstanding debts?

 

Affected Taxpayers

 Taxpayers whose information may to be disclosed to CRBs must be within the class of entity declared in a legislative instrument made by the Treasurer. Having a legislative instrument as the implementation vehicle (rather than legislation) gives t

SMSF obligations when members are overseas

Posted by Team AVS on 21 Feb, 2020  0 Comments

To be a complying fund and receive the tax concessions we all associate with super, an SMSF – like all superannuation funds –must be classified as an Australian superannuation fund. Yet this definition becomes more complicated to meet when SMSF members move overseas. When this happens, trustees need to know what, if any, action they need to take to make sure their fund remains compliant.

Legislative Background

Section 42 of the Superann

What you need to know about the First Home Super Saver Scheme

Posted by Team AVS on 3 Feb, 2020  0 Comments

The First Home Super Saver (FHSS) scheme was introduced a couple of years ago with an aim to reduce pressure on housing affordability. The scheme allows eligible taxpayers to save money for their first home inside the superannuation system. The government says this concessionally taxed environment will help first home buyers save faster.

How it works
Under the scheme, a taxpayer can make voluntary concessional and non-concessional contributio

Accessing your payment summary or income statement

Posted by Team AVS on 21 Jan, 2020  0 Comments

How you get your end of financial year information from your employer showing your earnings for the year (also known as a payment summary or income statement) depends on how your employer reports your income, tax and super information to ATO. You will be provided with either:

An income statement – if your employer reports your income, tax and super information to us through Single Touch Payroll (STP) they are no longer required to give you

Trust distributions from a discretionary trust

Posted by Team AVS on 7 Jan, 2020  0 Comments

TRUST

The purpose of a trust is to separate the legal and beneficial ownership of assets. The legal ownership of the asset rests with the trustee. The beneficiaries benefit from the income that flows from the assets. A trust is not a legal entity. It is best described as a legal “relationship” that is controlled by the trustee of the trust under the terms of the trust deed.

 

TRUSTEE

The trustee is the controlling mind of the

If you’re in business, you need to know about the PPSR

Posted by Team AVS on 24 Dec, 2019  0 Comments

There is a simple step that many businesses can take to better manage the risk that can attach to certain assets

Not so many years ago, a new scheme was introduced, which also established a national register, that could affect anyone who answers “yes” to any of the following scenarios — are you in business, and do you:

sell goods on retention of title terms?
hire, rent or lease out goods?
buy or sell valuable second-hand goods or

CGT concessions: Does your business qualify?

Posted by Team AVS on 19 Dec, 2019  0 Comments

Wondering if you’re eligible to claim the CGT concessions can be settled by answering a few basic questions.

 

In addition to the capital gains tax (CGT) exemptions and rollovers available more widely, there are four additional concessions that allow a small business to disregard or defer some or all of a capital gain from an active asset used in the business:

50% active asset reduction – where you can reduce the capital gain on an

To claim vehicle expenses, odometer records are not strictly “set-and-forget”

Posted by Team AVS on 10 Dec, 2019  0 Comments

The rules for individuals making claims for vehicle expenses (which apply to both employees and non-employees) state that taxpayers are required to substantiate claims for a vehicle that is used for income-producing purposes.

Remember however that unlike other work-related expenses, the $300 substantiation threshold does not apply to claims made for car expenses.

There are two methods to choose from (from the 2015-16 income year) — the lo

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