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As the Australian financial planning landscape continues to evolve, professional standards and regulatory oversight are at the heart of reform efforts aimed at restoring trust, improving adviser quality, and ensuring consumer protection. With a shrinking adviser population and shifting compliance ex ...

FBT: Car Parking Benefits – a primary place of employmentThe ATO has released an Addendum to TR 2021/2, its FBT ruling on car parking benefits. The updated ruling now specifies that an employee’s primary place of employment on a given day will be either:The business premises of an employe ...

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 ...

INDUSTRY UPDATES: New Services to attract Foreign BusinessesThe ATO has launched its New Investment Engagement Service (NIES) on 1st July 2021.The purpose of launching these services is to promote confidence & assist foreign Investors in understanding potential tax risks ar ...

Temporary COVID disaster payment: This is available for workers who reside or work in a ‘Commonwealth declared hotspot’, who are unable to attend work and earn income due to state-imposed restrictionsThis is available for Australian citizens, permanent residents & eligible work ...

ATO’s warning to Taxpayers on Work related ExpensesThe ATO has issued a warning to taxpayers urging them not to ‘copy & paste’ previous year’s claims in this year’s tax returns.The ATO has said around 8.5 million Australians have claimed close to $19.4 billion in work related ex ...

It’s time for Tax Planning for FY 2020 !We know that two significant things happened in FY20 that should impact the tax outcomes for all our clients.Bushfires having huge ramifications across Australia andCovid19 bringing the whole world to a complete lockdownThe Federal and State Governments hav ...

A Special professional is one who uses their artistic and intellectual skills and abilities rather than their technical skills. The artistic path is not very lucrative, save for a handful of exceptional people. Most of them do not enjoy the benefit of a stable income or job and must take whatever wo ...