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Extra pay day in the 2015-16 financial year?

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Where you are paid weekly on a Wednesday or Thursday, you will actually have 53 pay days during the financial year ending 30 June 2016 and similarly, if you are paid fortnightly and your pay day was either Wednesday 1 July 2015 or Thursday 2 July 2015, you will have 27 pay days for this financial year.  This might cause an expected tax refund to become an amount payable! The extra pay day happens for two reasons being that the 2016 year is a leap year (29 days in February) and also when you divide the number of days in…

Substituted Australian accounting period

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The overseas, controlling owners of an Australian company may want to apply to change the 30 June balance date for the Australian company to line up with the home country balance date.  For example, the Australian subsidiary of a UK parent company could apply to change the balance date to 31 March to assist with UK reporting requirements. There is a Tax Office form called Application for Substituted Accounting Period (SAP) NAT5087. Also, the Tax Office has published a practice statement for its staff to follow in assessing an application: PSLA 2007/21 Substitute Accounting Periods (SAPs). The application should be…

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