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Lodgment ObligationsThe head company of a consolidated group lodges a single income tax return on behalf of the group.Where a group consolidates part way through an income year, the head company lodges a single return covering both its own activities up to the date of consolidation and the gr ...

Under a novated lease arrangement, the employer takes over all or part of the lessee's rights and obligations under the lease. This transfer of rights and obligations is agreed to in a deed of novation between the employer, the finance company, and the lessee. The lessee is usually the employee or a ...

Thinly Capitalised EntityA thinly capitalised entity is one whose assets are funded by a high level of debt and relatively little equity.  Such an entity is said to be highly geared.  An entity’s debt–to–equity funding is sometimes expressed as a ratio.  Problems of High Ge ...

The Research and development (R&D) tax incentive encourages companies to engage in R&D benefiting Australia, by providing a tax offset for eligible R&D activities.About the ProgramThe incentive has two core components. Entities engaged in R&D may be eligible for:a 43.5% refund ...

There’s a great scene in “The Silence of the Lambs” where Hannibal Lecter guides young FBI agent Clarice Starling in her pursuit of a serial killer by getting her to return to “first principles,” asking, in the manner of Roman philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius, “What is this thing i ...