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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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ASIC company fees lifted

Each year the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions (ASIC) reviews and indexes their charges for various services in regulating companies. Here are some fee changes for the 2012 financial year ...
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Tax Insights
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Finalise trust distribution minutes by 30 June

A change to the Tax Act purportedly to allow streaming of capital gains and franked dividends became law at the end of June this year. The practical implication of the new law is that trust distribution minutes ...
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Business Insights
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Non-resident despite knowing of eventual return to Australia

The Tribunal has found against the Tax Office which contended an engineering contractor was an Australian tax resident between 1997 and 2002 despite working in the Czech Republic, Turkey, South Africa, USA, Germany, Thailand and China and making his home in the Philippines. He left Australia in 1997 and did not include his foreign income in his Australian income tax returns for those years because ...
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International Business
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Luxury car limit

The Tax Office has released a determination announcing the luxury car limit of $57,466 for the 2012 year which ...
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Personal Tax
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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German agreement to tax undisclosed Swiss bank accounts

Subject to executive and legislative sign off, the Swiss and German Governments have agreed on a deal to impose tax on undisclosed Swiss bank accounts held by Germans. A similar deal between Switzerland and the UK is pending ...
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International Business
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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New fix for super cap breaches

The Government has released a consultation paper proposing that where someone breaches their concessional contributions cap by up to $10,000 and for the first time, they can have the excess refunded to them and pay ...
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Superannuation
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Tax Office holds up 49,000 tax returns

During August, the Tax Office said that it had stopped over 49,000 tax returns which, in total, claimed around $190 million of refunds because they believe that there were overstated claims or that the return was potentially fraudulent ...
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Personal Tax
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Is it a bird, is it plane, no … it’s SuperStream

In March 2010 the Government released a proposal called SuperStream to introduce an industry wide electronic data and payment transfer system for superannuation funds but excluded self-managed super funds from the scheme. A super fund professionals’ association has now called for self-managed super funds to be included ...
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Superannuation
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Benchmark interest rate

The Tax Office has released a determination announcing the benchmark interest rate for Division 7A loans to be ...
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Personal Tax
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Tribunal ruling: part-time share-trading business

A case before the Tribunal was been ruled against the Tax Office finding that the taxpayer did in-fact conduct a share-trading business during the 2008 financial year ... despite the taxpayer having a full-time position as a CEO, not selling many shares in that year, not having a ...
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Business Insights
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Could China’s tight money crash Australian mines?

The Chinese Government has significantly tightened monetary policy this year leaving China’s private sector, state–owned business sector, iron ore traders, massive low–income housing scheme and railways all short of cash. If China hits the brakes too hard, will it damage Australia’s exports of coal and iron ore with flow-on effects to the mining sector’s investment ...
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International Business
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December 1, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Reverse mortgage protection

A draft bill was released in August giving better protection for seniors taking on reverse mortgage loans and capping the…
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Tax Insights
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March 6, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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August 2011 - A day in the tax life of ...

... previously on tax life ... Sam was well in control of her responsibilities as executor of her brother Mick’s…
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Tax Insights
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March 6, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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US Senate moves to stop tax haven abuse

Democratic Senator Carl Levin has introduced a Bill to the US Senate, which will require that US multi-national corporations would…
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International Business
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March 6, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Super guarantee

Question: We contracted a person for work. He gave us a tax invoice with ABN, GST etc. He was paid…
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Superannuation
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March 6, 2011
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Andrew Lovett

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Save Tax: work in progress

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Save Tax
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January 1, 1970
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Andrew Lovett

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Data matching - Pensioners

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Retirement Planning
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January 1, 1970
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Andrew Lovett

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Data Matching - Council contractors

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Tax Insights

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