by Canning Tax & Advisory | 20 Feb 2023 | Business Operations, Business Planning, Tax Compliance
The ATO has released its final position on how it will apply some integrity rules dealing with trust distributions – changing the goal posts for trusts distributing to adult children, corporate beneficiaries, and entities with losses. As a result, many family...
by Canning Tax & Advisory | 20 Feb 2023 | Tax Compliance
From 1 January 2023, those 55 and over can make a ‘downsizer’ contribution to superannuation. Downsizer contributions are an excellent way to get money into superannuation quickly. And now that the age limit has reduced to 55 from 60, more people have an opportunity...
by Canning Tax & Advisory | 20 Feb 2023 | Business Operations, Tax Compliance
Not being paranoid or anything but we were curious about the skills of the latest innovation to take the world by storm, ChatGPT, and its ability to work with the Australian tax system. Let’s start by saying that we were impressed. Not so much by ChatGPT’s ability to...
by Canning Tax & Advisory | 20 Feb 2023 | Business Operations, Tax Compliance
It’s that time of year again – what to do for the Christmas party for the team, customers, gifts of appreciation, etc. Here are our top tips for a generous and tax effective Christmas season: Tax & Christmas For GST registered businesses (not tax exempt)...
by Canning Tax & Advisory | 13 Dec 2022 | Business Operations, Tax Compliance
If you missed the 30 November 2022 deadline for obtaining a Director ID, the Australian Business Registry Services have stated that they will not take action against directors that apply for their ID by 14 December 2022. If you are required to but have not yet applied...
by Canning Tax & Advisory | 14 Nov 2022 | Business Operations, Business Planning, Succession, Tax Compliance
The value of cryptocurrency assets inside Australian self managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) increased by 589.9% ($1.17bn) between June 2019 and June 2022, according to the latest ATO statistics. While cryptocurrency is a relatively small asset class at only 0.16%...
