Self Managed Superannuation Fund Guide

Written by Barbara Smith AM, Dr Brett Davies, Dr Ed Koken I am honoured to have joined forces with well-known and award-winning authors Barbara Smith AM and Dr Ed Koken to produce the fully revised book: Self Managed Superannuation Fund Guide. This practical, plain...

Journal Entries are not legal documents. Book entries do not work.

Journal entries and Book entries do not work: ATO Commonly Dad borrows money cheaper than his trust. In this recent case, Dad borrows money from the CBA and gives it to his trust. Everything goes wrong. In Chadbourne v FCT [2020] AATA 2441: the taxpayer, Mr...

Centrelink attacks innocent Grandparents

  A rather worrying trend is Centrelink attacking people who are unaware that they are mentioned in a Family Trust. For example, the high risk of bankruptcy son often makes Mum the Appointor or a Default beneficiary – for asset protection. Mum has never...

Four things your Accountant should do differently this EoFY

  It is important to talk with your Accountant before the end of the financial year and work through your tax year-end planning issues before 30 June. Thanks to COVID-19 it is not just the usual year-end issues such as bad debts, trading stock, losses, super and the...

Is it legal to build your parent’s Wills

Is it legal to build your parent’s Wills in Australia? Children are worried about the defacto death duties of CGT, income tax and stamp duty. Adult children, in particular, don’t want to pay the 32% Super non-dependency tax. Basic Testamentary Trusts and...