Tax News & Articles

The Victorian Treasurer has issued revised guidelines for exemption of absentee corporations and absentee trusts from absentee owner land tax surcharge. Readers who are unfamiliar

Determining the Pay-As-You-Go Withholding (PAYGW) obligations for employers paying termination/redundancy packages to employees theoretically should be straightforward once employers determine (pursuant to Divisions 80 to

Following the announcement in the 2017-18 Budget in May 2017, the Government has now introduced a bill legislating their proposal to remove all benefits of

Recently, there has been a spate of articles and discussion in the media regarding employers failing to pay employee superannuation guarantee (SG) contributions. To entice

Recently, the Victorian Court of Appeal (Commissioner of State Revenue v Danvest Pty Ltd & Anor [291] VSCA 382) – “the Danvest Case”) considered whether

The small business 15 year exemption is the best of the small business CGT concessions, allowing the entire capital gain on the disposal of a

As we approach the first anniversary of Foreign Resident Capital Gains Withholding (FRCGW) Tax, the Federal Treasurer has provided an impetus to the “infant” FRCGW

Tax agents often rely on the ATO website in making decisions instead of referring to the tax law itself. This is not always enough to

The Federal Court has held that provision of transport by an ‘uberX Partner’ (i.e. an Uber driver) to an ‘uberX Rider’ (i.e. the passenger) was

The complicated tax treatment of superannuation benefits that include a life insurance payout was discussed in an article in the February 2016 edition of The