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Separating With A Mortgage
When a couple breaks up, there are a lot of things to deliberate. Where are you going to burn the romantic photos? Who gets to keep the slow cooker? How quickly can I get that ring up on Gumtree? Most importantly, what happens to the house…?
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Family Planning: Applying For A Home Loan With A Baby On The Way
Purchasing a home and having a child are two of life's most stressful events. What on Earth happens when both are occuring at the same time?!
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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.
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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.
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Clothing Deductions Hung Out To Dry
The ATO says that clothing claims are up nearly 20 per cent over the last five years with people either making mistakes or deliberately over-claiming. Common mistakes include people claiming ineligible clothing, claiming for something without having spent the money, and not being able to explain the basis for how the claim was calculated.
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Interest Rates Remain At Record Lows
The Reserve Bank of Australia has yet again left the official cash rate on hold at 1.5 per cent.
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Small Businesses Can Get Into Trouble
Imagine you have put all of your life savings into buying a business. You spend years dedicating your heart and soul towards it. You listen to financial advice and take every measure to do the right things. Still your business is failing. The figures are wrong. It’s heart wrenching. Our advice? Let it go. ASAP.
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Your Income is Your Number One Asset
When starting out in small business, you have to take 100 per cent responsibility for the income you’re going to generate. That means you need a defensive strategy in place for your income.
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