Category: Income Tax
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More on the Small Business Rollover
Yes I am way too excited about this… But the Commissioner has produced his first two bits of guidance on using this rollover. In the first he looks at the consequences of using the rollover. This is all pretty simple stuff (cost base transfer…) but the final example has the trick in it… Example 6 –…
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Small Business Restructure Rollover and Stamp Duties
I have discussed this rollover before so if you have no idea what I am talking about have a look at these links first. The rollover is very broad, applying to CGT assets, revenue assets, trading stock and depreciable assets. But it does not cover all the taxes that may be rolled over under these…
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Property transactions and clearance certificates
The Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2015 Measures No 6) Bill 2015 is now law (just awaiting Royal Assent). I don’t like it at all… But we now need to understand that from 1 July 2016 a purchaser of certain CGT assets, being asset valued at $2 million or more that are taxable Australian real property or…
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The end of tax depreciation schedules
I don’t know if the Quantity Surveyors have worked it out yet, but they have the most to lose from the changes to negative gearing that are currently being discussed. Labor is promising to remove negative gearing from all purchased buildings that are not new buildings from 1 July 2017. And the Government is considering…
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The Small Business Restructure Rollover is now before the Parliament!
Its almost law!!!! Under this Bill, from 1 July 2016, small businesses can roll-over “active assets” that are CGT assets, trading stock, revenue assets and depreciating assets as part of a genuine restructure of a small business from one entity to another. In Summary, here is how it works: Subdivision 328-G creates an optional roll-over…
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Innovation Tax Changes
Why does “innovation” have anything to do with tax changes? In the Government’s Innovation Statement most of the expenditure is making tax changes. Tax is a revenue raising device… Not a method to change people’s actions. When you use tax policy to do anything other than raise revenue you get bad policy. But here are…
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What a waste of time
It is stupid tax policy made worse… From 1 July 2016 there will be a 10% non-final withholding tax on payments made to foreign residents that dispose of certain property. The effect of this will be that where a foreign resident disposes of Australian property, the purchaser will be required to withhold and pay to…
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Newish Tax Concession For Farmers
The Government has released draft legislation that makes certain tax concessions available to farmers even better than they currently are. In the draft legislation, the Government proposes to make the following changes to the Farm Managed Deposit scheme (and a reminder for those city slickers, the FMD scheme allows farmers to claim a tax deduction…
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How do I fix up a large UPE
I know they are not as common since December 2009, but now that we are generally paying interest on new UPEs to corporate beneficiaries (as required under TR 2010/3) these UPEs can be a real pain. Especially if the trust that retains the cash that created the UPE is not making a lot of money and…
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Common property in blocks of units
So who owns the common property in a block of units, the strata trust or the owners. Legally it depends on the state legislation. However, in Taxation Ruling TR 2015/3 the Commissioner simplifies this 40. Each strata title legislation is different in its description of how common property is held. Notwithstanding these differences, the Commissioner…
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