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Government tries to fix the glitch in company tax cut. Does it make things worse? Yes!

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In December 2017, we published this article and video: government-tries-fix-glitch-company-tax-cut-make-things-worse Those publications were in response to a Government Bill to change the way companies could access the lower corporate tax rate.  That bill has now become law and has made the determination of the tax position for a company much more complicated. With the “bright line” test in this new law, companies may fluctuate from being a lower tax “base rate entity” one year and subject to the full 30% corporate tax rate the next year and then, subsequently revert.  A change would also trigger for the maximum franking for dividends from…

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