2017-18 Federal Budget Essentials – What it means for you
The 2017-18 Federal Budget has been framed around a suite of new impositions for big banks, new regulations, new levies [...]
The ATO focus on so-called “pre-insolvency” businesses continues…
Following a raid in late 2016 where 120 ATO officers and their ASIC counterparts conducted access visits without notice on [...]
Is the Billable Hour Obsolete?
Clients are getting fed up with being charged high rates for six-minute increments of time, and some law firms [...]
PwC Glimpses the Ghost of Arthur Anderson
On the 26th of August this year in a Miami courtroom after 8 years of preliminaries, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) was [...]
Looking at investment property repairs and improvements
Many of our clients have investment properties, and it is important that we deal with associated expenditure in the correct manner. [...]
The key features of the ‘Netflix tax’
Here is a summary of the controversial new changes to the taxation of cross-border e-commerce (and other services) under the GST [...]
Foreign resident capital gains withholding payments
Foreign resident capital gains withholding payments The 10% non-final withholding tax on payments made to foreign residents that dispose of [...]