BEWARE! Don’t get caught out by the latest ‘ATO’ SCAMMERS making threatening calls and sending emails. They are at it again. And their methods are becoming worse and more threatening, and quite frankly …SCARY! Scammers are calling unsuspecting Australians accusing them of Tax Evasion and Fraud as well as police prosecution and even jail. Don’t be fooled! Can you believe the scammers
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Looking to purchase business equipment? You need to consider the small-business instant asset write off changes by 30th June 2017. If you are a small business, the current instant asset write-off threshold is $20,000. However, from 1 July 2017, this threshold reverts back to $1,000. What does this mean? Any small business with turnover of
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The A Firm are excited to announce the appointment of our new Redland Bay Manager Michael Curry. Michael has been working at our Head Office in Nerang for a year and also before then had worked in Business with our CEO Annette Bedford for over 10 years. He has in depth knowledge in Businesses and Taxation, specialising in structures. Michael also
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Last year, we saved a couple $649 per fortnight (that’s over $16,000 per year!) from restructuring their finances. This enabled the female client to drop two days a week from work and spend those days with her young children. We have found the majority of people have finance such as mortgages, car loans, credit cards,
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Want To Get Your Tax Back Before the Financial Year? Then an Income Tax Withholding Variation could be right for you! For the people who are new to this I will briefly explain what an Income Tax Withholding Variation is: PAYG income tax withholding variation (ITWV) is used for people on the PAYG (Pay As
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If done right, tax planning could save you tens of thousands of dollars come tax time. And NOW is the time to put some strategies into place. Many Business Owners think they have it all covered when it comes to tax planning and what they need to do to minimise their tax bill to the
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I love fireworks, the bigger and more colours the better, they bring out the kid in me. Even the sound as a rocket goes up before the explosion builds anticipation, but when you don’t get the bang it’s incredibly disappointing. Let’s face it at this time of year there are so many distractions, all those
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It’s important to think about what having a break means for your business and the steps needed to ensure a relaxing time off. They say small business owners never sleep, but now is a good chance to have a well-deserved break while other businesses take it easy too. Whether the shutdown period is a few
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You’ve gone into Business for yourself for any number of reasons. Maybe, you want to work for yourself for the flexibility, need to create your own career opportunity, or hate your day job. Part of the deal is looking after the paperwork, a large part of which is the accounts. I’ve seen many small business owner’s who are
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You currently have or may be considering, applying for a PAYG Withholding Variation. This allows you to receive your expected tax refund during the year as part of a reduction in your income tax withheld from wages/salaries, rather than waiting for the year end tax refund. It certainly helps with cashflow when you have investment
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