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• Category: ANDREW HENSHAW
  • The Windfall Gains Tax – plunder or taxation?
  • Accountant’s road map; business exits
  • Working from home during a COVID-19 lockdown: can you claim a tax deduction for rent?
  • PODCAST: Personal Services Income
  • PODCAST: Work-Related Self-Education Expenses
  • PODCAST: How to structure a hobby farm
  • Not all self-education expenses are created equal – a reminder from Khan and Commissioner of Taxation
  • PODCAST: The Hidden Traps in Selling a Business
  • Non-Residents, CGT and Australian Family Trusts – where does the dust lie pending the outcome of the Full Federal Court appeal in Greensill?
  • PODCAST: In Connection With Your Retirement
  • PODCAST: The Budget
  • Taxpayer wins in Episode III of Eichmann Saga (Return of the Active Asset Test)
  • The Eichmann Case – Federal Court
  • Tax Residency – another one bites the dust (the Joubert case)
  • PODCAST: Jobkeeper 2.1
  • NSW discretionary trusts- avoid extra land tax and duty on landholdings!
  • COVID-19 Restructuring
  • PODCAST: Jobkeeper Rules
  • PODCAST: Job Keeper Payment
  • COVID-19: Commercial Tenancies Code – The Pathway Forward
  • Guide to leases for business owners
  • Denying the CGT Main Residence Exemption to ‘Aussie Expats’
  • PODCAST: Main Residence Exemption for Foreign Residents
  • PODCAST:Main Residence Exemption Upon Divorce or Death
  • Victorian SRO awakens
  • PODCAST: AIRBNB TRIGGERS CGT
  • NSW Discretionary Trusts: Still time to act to avoid retrospective additional duty and land tax surcharges
  • PODCAST: Tax Effective Structuring
  • PODCAST: Div 7A Questions
  • PODCAST: When does a UPE become a Division 7A Issue?
  • PODCAST: Dealing with the ATO in a tax dispute
  • Contractor or Employee: What’s the Risk?
  • Harding case on appeal – taxpayer wins, scope of ‘permanent place of abode’​ concept widened
  • SELLING YOUR BUSINESS: HOW TO NAVIGATE THE LEGAL MINEFIELD
  • Business Succession: Transitioning to the next generation
  • What’s in store for tax in 2019? Key tax issues business owners need to watch out for
  • Co-Owned Businesses: Why you need a business ‘pre-nup’ …. and what to do if you don’t have one.
  • Can a transfer to a ‘bare trust’ be subject to transfer duty? The devil is in the detail!
  • Trust Splitting: the ATO’s controversial new Draft Taxation Determination
  • Tax residency – Commissioner wins big in recent expat case
  • CGT marriage breakdown roll-over: the Sandini Case revisted
  • New ‘Integrity’ Measures for the Small Business CGT Concessions
  • ‘PLUS’ GST CASE – COURT OF APPEAL MUDDIES THE WATERS
  • THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: THE NEW GST WITHHOLDING REGIME
  • WORKING OFFSHORE? TRANSFERRING MONEY TO AUSTRALIA? BEWARE OF AUSTRAC & THE ATO!
  • SEVEN REASONS WHY LABOR’S DISCRETIONARY TRUST PROPOSAL IS FUNDAMENTALLY FLAWED
  • THE NEW 27.5% CORPORATE TAX RATE: HOW DO I GET IT?
  • DID THE SANDINI CASE REALLY EXTEND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CGT MARRIAGE BREAKDOWN ROLLOVER? NO!
  • SPECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO SUPERANNUATION: ATO U-TURN: EXTREME CAUTION REQUIRED
  • FOREIGN PROPERTY INVESTORS STUNG: SPECIAL BUDGET UPDATE
  • Foreign Property Investors: 5 years of tax and duty changes
  • Getting the Small Business CGT Concessions: When is a liability, a liability?
  • Asset Protection: the Gift and Loan Back
  • Small Business Owners: Five Tax Issues to Watch Out for in 2017
  • Born in the USA
  • “Plus” GST – how one word costs $290,000
  • Tax Disputes: The Onus of Proof
  • Superannuation: $500K Cap is Axed!
  • Proposed Penalty Changes for Small Business: A Step in the Right Direction
  • Tax Residency: Every Fact Matters
• Category: EDWARD HART
  • Unfair Contract Terms
• Category: EMMA MILNE
  • The Victorian Rent Relief Rulebook 2.0
  • Here We Go Again; A New Rent Relief Scheme for Business Owners
  • Commercial Tenancy Relief Announced for Eligible Businesses in the Wake of Lockdown 5.0
  • Victoria’s extension to the commercial tenancies rent relief scheme and what it means for you.
  • A guide to the Retail Leases Amendment Act 2020
• Category: FIONA BUCKNALL
  • New Franchising Code of Conduct reforms: what do they mean for franchisors and franchisees?
• Category: GREG THOMAS
• Category: insights
  • PODCAST: Business Breakups
  • Business partner disputes — COVID is adding fuel to the fire
  • Victorian State Budget 2021-22: Significant tax changes and their impact on property owners and private business
  • Federal Budget 2021-22: The Essential Update for Private Businesses and their Owners
  • Workplace Sexual Harassment: Reform on the Way
  • Significant Changes to Casual Employment
  • Once a contractor, always a contractor?
  • Federal Budget 2020-21: What does it mean for private business and their owners?
  • ‘Who’s paying for this?’ – tax considerations for Employee Share and Option Plans
  • ‘liquid gold’ – the valuable tax concessions for a Members Voluntary Liquidation (MVL)
  • What if I get it wrong? The benefits of having a ‘Reasonably Arguable Position’
  • COVID-19: Victorian Rent Relief Rulebook
  • Making sense of the ‘Cash Flow Boost’ Act
  • Commissioner wins in Eichmann appeal
  • PODCAST: Related Party LRBA
  • PODCAST: SMSF BUYS PROPERTY JOINTLY
  • PODCAST: Small Business CGT Concessions for Big Business
  • PODCAST: The 2019 Harding Case
  • PODCAST: Div 7A Reform
  • PODCAST: ATO Disputes – How to avoid or manage them
  • The most common pitfalls fitness businesses need to avoid when negotiating a lease
  • Stamp Duty to apply to Development Agreements in Victoria
  • Struggling with a landlord? You may be able to terminate the lease
  • Selling a fitness business: what you need to know
  • Buying a fitness business: what you need to know
  • The Top 3 Legal Traps for Gym Owners
• Category: JESSICA HILL
• Category: Joel Garrett
• Category: JOHN STOREY
• Category: KATHERINE STEWART
• Category: latest
• Category: PATRICK SIMON
• Category: RAJAN VERMA
• Category: ROBERT WILSON
  • Unfair Contract Terms – no longer a ‘toothless tiger’– new penalties for Australian businesses.
• Category: ROSALIND LI
• Category: SCOTT MCKENZIE
  • COVID-19: Frequently Asked Legal Questions
  • PODCAST: COVID-19 Commercial Tenancies Code