Contribution rules changed substantially from 1 July 2017.
The ATO has confirmed in Practical Compliance Guideline PCG 2016/16 that, unless unitholders have a ‘fixed entitlement’ to all income and capital of the trust, a unit trust will not qualify as a ‘fixed trust’.
In this video, CGW Partner Fletch Heinemann discusses tax and foreign income.
In this video, CGW Partner Fletch Heinemann discusses double tax agreements.
From 1 July 2017, banks are required to collect information from customers that are non-residents. Banks will share the information with the ATO, who will then share it with tax authorities in other countries that have signed up to the Common Reporting Standard (CRS).
Discretionary trusts can produce nightmarish consequences for creating payroll tax groups.
State revenue authorities have been raising payroll tax assessments for subcontracting arrangements – by using the broad scope of the employment agent provisions.
The proposed amendments to the 2016 budget measures for the treatment of transition to retirement income streams and limited recourse borrowing arrangements were passed on 15 June 2017
The proposed amendments to the 2016 Budget measures for the treatment of transition to retirement income streams and limited recourse borrowing arrangements were passed on 15 June 2017
The proposed amendments to the 2016 budget measures for the treatment of transition to retirement income streams and limited recourse borrowing arrangements were passed on 15 June 2017
The transfer balance cap rules still apply to a pension that is a death benefit pension.
The 2016 Budget changes include CGT relief that allows SMSFs to reset cost bases of assets to market value before 1 July 2017.
Cooper Grace Ward acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Fast, accurate and flexible entities including companies, self-managed superannuation funds and trusts.