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July 24, 2025
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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Does it make sense to sacrifice some salary for an electric vehicle, and what is a novated lease?

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Tax Insight/Novated Lease/Insurance/Payout Costs/Lease/Tax Adviser
Tax Insights
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July 22, 2025
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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What are the tax risks in operating your business without a formal office?

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Tax Insight/Tax Risks/Tax Law/Personal Services Business/Business Premises/Capital Gains Tax
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July 15, 2025
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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Financial Operations: What are ABA files, and how can our business use them to pay employees and suppliers?

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Tax Insight/Financial Operations/Business Finance/Suppliers/Employees/Payroll/Payments/Online Banking/Banking/Bookkeeping
Tax Insights
Q&A
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July 10, 2025
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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How can I practically use artificial intelligence in my business' financial operations?

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Tax Insight/Business Finance/Deal Negotiation/Business Start-Up/Artificial Intelligence/AI/Financial Operations
Tax Insights
Business Insights
Q&A
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July 3, 2025
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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Can you claim the main residence exemption after you move overseas?

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Build Wealth/Tax Insights/Real Estate/Capital Gains/Residency/Tax Residency/Main Residence Exemption
Tax Insights
Q&A
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June 17, 2025
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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Why do I need a family trust election?

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Family/Family Trust Election/Tax purposes/Election
Q&A
Tax Insights
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November 15, 2023
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Andrew Lovett
Originally written by Tony Lovett, updated by Andrew Lovett

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A brief history of our complicated Australian taxation system

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Income Tax, Australian Taxation Law, Australian Taxation Office, ATO, Tax Law, History of Taxation in Australia, Tax, Australian treatise on taxation in 1947,
Tax Insights
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March 2, 2023
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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Charity website depreciation

We are a not-for-profit registered charitable association. Our auditors have suggested that the cost of upgrading our website may be able to be capitalised as an intangible asset and written off over the next few years. Is that correct?

What would be the recommended depreciation rate on a straight-line basis?

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Charity, charity website, depreciation, non-profit, charitable association, intangible asset
Tax Insights
Q&A
Save Tax
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February 21, 2023
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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Commissions

I am planning to give a staff member a lump sum as a one-off commission payment at the end of this financial year. Do I have to pay workers’ compensation and superannuation on this amount?

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Commissions, lump-sum payment, compensation, alllowances
Business Insights
Personal Tax
Q&A
Superannuation
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February 10, 2023
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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Proprietors' funds

Can you direct me to where I may find more information on the definition of “drawings”?

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Drawings, Tax Insight, Proprietors' funds, funds, business
Q&A
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January 26, 2023
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Andrew Lovett
Lovetts

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Q&A Depreciation Reports

Is the cost to obtain a depreciation report from a quantity surveyor fully deductible? How would it be reported?

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Depreciation Reports, Tax Insight
Q&A
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January 4, 2023
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Andrew Lovett
Lovetts

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Australian Tax Changes 2022-2023

Stay in touch with all of the latest tax changes from the Australian Government.
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Australian Tax Changes 2023
Australian Tax Changes
Tax Insights
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October 7, 2022
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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Are you running a profitable business and suffering high marginal tax rates?

Are you running a profitable business and suffering high marginal tax rates?
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Australian business, Australian Tax Insight, Australian Tax Law, Business, Corporate tax rate, Incorporation, Personal Services Income PSI, QLD Tax
Business Insights
Tax Insights
Generate Cash Flow
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August 26, 2021
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Andrew Lovett
Andrew Lovett

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Tax-free government money to combat COVID-19?

State, territory, and the Commonwealth governments are now in the process of providing tax-free grants to businesses to support them during lockdowns imposed to protect public health from the pandemic.
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Australian business, Business Grants, COVID-19 Resources, JobSaver, New South Wales, Pandemic, Tax Insght
Australian Government Grants
Business Insights
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February 26, 2020
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Andrew Lovett

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Australian Research & Development Tax Incentives

The Australian Government offers some great incentives to innovative technology companies who undertake R&D as part of their business or growth strategy
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Australian Research & Development Tax Incentives, R&D
Tax Insights
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December 18, 2019
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Andrew Lovett
Lovetts

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Real-time Tax Reporting & Penalties!

Governments and tax offices are stepping up the use of information technology to provide much more real-time reporting and tax…
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Tax Insight, Real-time Tax Reporting & Penalties
Business Insights
Tax Insights

One idea, could help you save tax – let’s get creative.

Consulting Accountants  .  Taxation Specialists  . Business Improvement