Business

Single Touch Payroll (and all the surrounding panic) Is Here

Single Touch Payroll is here for those small businesses with 20 or more employees. It is due to come in for those Employers employing 19 people or less from the 1st July 2019.

Cash Payments Are Holding Your Business Back

Are you missing out on customers because you still think “cash is King?”

Always Start With The End In Mind

If the business starts burning down, what's your escape plan?

Every Three Year SMSF Audits – A Ludicrous About Face

SMSF Auditors now must: be registered with ASIC; be registered with the ATO; have enormous amounts of regular professional updates; and also be audited by their peak professional bodies, such as the Chartered Accountants ANZ and CPA Australia.

Small Businesses Do Need Tax Guidance

We’re glad to hear the head of the ATO, Chris Jordan, has come out recently and commented on tax obligations for small business people. It’s very complex, but so important that small business people get it right.

Property Investment for Small Business Owners

In small business, a key asset protection strategy is to set up an investment trust outside of your main trading trust.

This investment trust is what buys your investment property.

You need to do this because you cannot have it in your name as the director of the company who is running the business. This is far too risky in a litigious society. 

Death and Small Business CGT Concessions

They say that two things in life are inevitable – death and taxes. This doesn’t mean that the two have to happen at the same time. Generally where there is a change of ownership in small business, a CGT event is deemed to have occurred which may result in a capital loss or taxable gain. When a person dies, their assets are transferred to their legal personal representative (LPR) or are acquired by a surviving joint tenant, if one exists, and as such the Capital Gains Tax rules apply.

The Small Business CGT Exemption After Death

Fortunately for your spouse or children, the assets will still be eligible for the 15 year exemption to the same extent that the deceased would have been just prior to their death.