Changes to the deduction for travel to inspect rental properties One of the changes announced in the 2017 federal budget removed the ability for...

Launched in December 2015, the National Innovation and Science Agenda seeks to update Australia’s insolvency laws and encourage more Australian...

As a judge at the recent ifa Excellence Awards for financial planners, I thought I would share my thoughts on what makes a compelling award...

Developed anonymously, decentralised, limited in supply and elegantly marketed as ‘digital gold’, bitcoin has taken the world by storm, rising to...

Does it seem that some of your clients, despite getting the right investment advice, are not translating financial success into the lives they...

Tax ruling TR 2010/3 which has been in effect from 16 December 2009 outlines the ATO’s view that a UPE between a trust and a private company...

Most SMSF members impacted by the introduction of the transfer balance cap (TBC) on 1 July 2017 are eligible to apply the CGT relief if they...

There are some one-off elements that need to be factored into this year’s lodgement that make it easy to forget, or give less consideration to,...

On 7 December 2017, the Turnbull government introduced a bill which would significantly reform Australia’s private sector whistleblower laws. The...

The new tax law ensures that a company will not qualify for the lower company tax rate of 27.5 per cent if more than 80 per cent of its...