Monthly Archives: January 2016

Tax “expenditures”

Posted on January 29, 2016 by

The yearly “tax expenditure statement” has been released (http://www.treasury.gov.au/PublicationsAndMedia/Publications/2016/TES-2015). What is a tax expenditure? Its a negative tax. Effectively it is a tax concession so that certain income is taxed less than the “norm”. For example, super is taxed at … Continue reading →

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Pre Budget Submission – Read the Board of Tax report on Div 7A

Posted on January 21, 2016 by

I don’t generally get excited about pre budget submissions as I have not seen many ideas taken up in the Budgets (consult so you can say you consulted rather than looking for ideas) but I did write a very short … Continue reading →

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