Whether your superannuation impacts your Age Pension depends on a number of factors, such as your age and your level of assets and income. Age pension age In order to qualify for Age Pension payments, you must have reached age pension age. Your age Pension age is determined by when you were born, as follows:...

With many parts of Australia in the grip of a rental crisis, a significant number of tenants may be residing in the properties of friends and relatives. A recent case that came before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), Rizkallah and FCT [2022] AATA 3081, is a timely reminder that rental expenses in excess of income...

Do you have your own business or are thinking of starting one? If so, you may need to pay yourself superannuation depending on your business structure. Types of business structures available If you were working for a company, your employer would be required to pay you superannuation guarantee (SG) contributions of 10.5% of your earnings...

The ATO Commissioner has just issued a warning to businesses on the importance of securing your au domain name! To recap, .au direct domain names were launched earlier this year by the organisation that manages Australian domain names, the Australian Domain Administration (auDA). This will allow businesses to elect to drop the .com from their...

What you need to know With hundreds of thousands of directors yet to apply for their director identification number (director ID) ahead of the looming November deadline, a last-ditch public information campaign has been launched. The Albanese Government has just launched a new awareness campaign to help company directors obtain their director identification number (director...

Caps and limits untouched In a pleasing development, the important superannuation caps and limits were undisturbed, providing all-important investor certainty moving forward. This means that: individuals will be permitted to contribute just as much to superannuation as currently under the concessional and non-concessional caps at $27,500 and $110,000 respectively (or up to $330,000 of non-concessional...

The confirmation of lucrative income tax cuts, and the scrapping of a tax offset for low and middle-income earners were the big-ticket items. That said, labor’s first federal Budget in nine years was as noteworthy for the changes it didn’t make as for those that it did. Unmentioned were current outstanding issues impacting the taxation...

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The ATO has issued a reminder to sole traders and partners in a partnership. If you take goods from your business for your private use, make sure you accurately record this in your stock on hand. Accessing your trading stock for private use is permissible from a tax perspective, however you need to account for the stock correctly: each...

The ATO has reminded superannuation members that severe financial hardship does not meet the grounds for compassionate release. This reminder comes as the ATO continues to receive calls from people experiencing severe financial hardship or wanting to access their superannuation to assist with general expense. Background – severe financial hardship Access to superannuation for severe...