A Freelancer’s Guide to Tax in Australia
Just starting out as a Freelancer in Australia? It’s important to understand your tax obligations. Check out our Freelancer’s Guide to Tax.
Just starting out as a Freelancer in Australia? It’s important to understand your tax obligations. Check out our Freelancer’s Guide to Tax.
With the 2022 Tax season fast approaching, we’ve pulled together 7 tax considerations to pop on your Personal Tax Checklist.
As a small business owner too, we know how busy EOFY can be. So, we’ve pulled together 14 tax considerations for Business Owners, to help you prepare for your 2022 Tax Return.
When you sell an asset (let’s say a property), you will do so at a profit, a loss, or you’ll come out even. If you’re lucky enough to come out with a profit, that profit you receive is called your Capital Gain. When you complete your tax return, you’re required to report your Capital Gains as well as your Capital Losses, but you only pay tax on your Capital Gains (i.e. when you’ve made a profit). This is called Capital Gains Tax (CGT).
While negative gearing is a method commonly applied to rental properties, it can in fact be applied to any type of investment. Essentially, negative gearing is when you borrow money to invest (let’s use the example of property), and you operate at a loss, i.e. your rental income is less than what it costs you to hold the property. When it comes to rental properties, there are a number of things you can claim as a deduction in an effort to boost your costs and come out “negatively geared”.
Let’s not sugar coat it – each year we pay large sums in taxes (some more than others depending on what you earn…. AND what you can claim). You earnt it, so we want to help you keep it (well, as much of it as possible). Ultimately, that comes down to knowing what you can and should be claiming, and that’s where we come in.
We’ve pulled together a snapshot from last night’s 2022 Federal Budget announcement to highlight who will be receiving a bit of a boost to their back pocket in the Treasurer’s latest budget.
There’s some new rules coming into effect from 1 November for ‘Stapling’ of superfunds to employees, and as an employer there are a few things you may need to do to get ready. But before we get into that, let’s take a look at what “Stapling” actually is. Put simply, Stapling is an Australian Government superannuation reform that means an existing super account is linked, or ‘stapled’, to an individual employee so that it follows them as they change jobs.
The scorecard becomes the marching orders of the organisation, a simple set of metrics that gives clear focus and direction of the business. Despite it being over 20 years since the BSC was first devised, this remains a powerful tool to have in your business toolbox.
In an effort to make Queensland the place to be for small business, three new grants programs worth $25 million over two years have been announced by the Queensland Government. The announcement comes during Small Business Month; the theme of which is ‘bounce back better’.