SMSF Members – Don’t forget your pension payments

SMSF members who are receiving retirement pensions or transition to retirement pensions (TTR’s) need to ensure that they make their minimum pension payments from their SMSF before the 30 June 2017.  With less than two weeks to the end of the financial year, this could...

Resident requirements for Companies

The residency status of a company, regardless of whether it trades or invests in Australia, dictates the company’s Australian income tax obligations. Foreign resident entities are generally taxed in Australia on any income that has an Australian source. Australian...

Margin scheme and GST

The margin scheme is a way of working out the GST one must pay while selling a property as part of a business. The margin scheme can only be applied if the sale of the property is a taxable supply. Margin Scheme Details Whether you can use the margin scheme depends on...

The importance of dividends

The ASX 200 index at 31 May 2015 was 5,777 at 31 May 2017, two years later it was 5,724. So in two years the market has not improved, in fact it has declined by 53 points. Dividends Nonetheless, Blue Chip companies continue to pay healthy dividends, and those healthy...

Phoenix Companies under scrutiny

Phoenix companies are now the target of a coordinated interagency taskforce between the NSW Office of State Revenue and other state revenue bodies and the Australian Taxation Office. What is a Phoenix Company? A phoenix company is where a new company is created or...