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Banking Royal Commission - what you need to know
Feb 2019 Tax Round Up - Legislation in limbo
T'was the night before Christmas... the 'Naughty or Nice edit '
Dec 2018 Tax Round Up - No deductions if tax obligations not met
And the winner is..here's what I should have said
The impending changes to Division 7A
Nov 2018 Tax Round Up - Significant changes to Div 7A
Oct 2018 Tax Round Up - tightening access to the small business CGT concessions
Sept 2018 Tax Round Up - what you need to know about the new 'passive income' test
Company tax change …..again – what you need to know
August 2018 Tax Round Up - new detailed property development guidance
Top super Q&As - event based reporting, moving pension types
June 2018 Top Tax & Accounting Q&As
July 2018 Tax Round Up - the 2018 corporate tax dilemma, residency under the spotlight
What a difference a day makes: The Impact of the new education standards for financial advice on accountants
June 2018 Tax Round Up - 12 month super guarantee amnesty
May 2018 Tax Round Up - Full federal court overturns decision on marriage breakdown rollover relief
April 2018 Tax Round Up - access to small business CGT concessions tightened
March 2018 Top Tax & Accounting Q&As
March 2018 Tax Round Up - Significant impending changes to the small business CGT concessions
Foreign Residents Excluded from Main Residence Exemption - legislation before Parliament
Feb 2018 Tax Round Up - Profits inside professional services firms
Jan 2018 Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - CGT on Bitcoin, non-resident director fees, losses and interposed trusts
Knowledge Shop acquires Taxbytes
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - travel allowances, director loans, and calculating CGT for a partial main residence
What's your Christmas wish?
Dec 2017 Tax Round Up - ATO backtracks on reasonable rates for travel allowances
Top Superannuation Q&As - property flipping inside an SMSF, recontributions and more
Nov 2017 Tax Round Up - ATO targets 'property flipping'
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As
New legislation restricts access to the reduced company tax rate
Oct 2017 Tax Round Up - Retrospective changes to company tax rate rules
Tax & Trusts: The Top 3 Problem Areas
Sept 2017 Tax Round Up - SMSF event based reporting, small business tax offsets for trusts and partnerships clarified
August 2017 Tax Round Up - deduction limits for residential property, housing super measures
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As
July Tax Round Up - ATO modernises position on tax & travel
June Tax Round Up - over-franked dividends and the corporate tax rate change
Budget 2017-18: What every adviser needs to know
May 2017 Tax Round Up - expansion of marriage breakdown rollover relief?
Garth's Hotties - Pensions on the death of a member
Feb 2017 Tax Round Up - backpacker rules explained!
Twelve Days of Christmas 2016 - Accountants' Style!
Sweeping super reform a reality
Reindeer Games at Knowledge Shop PD
Nov 2016 Tax Round Up - GST, property developments, and how it can all go wrong
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - October 2016
And the winner is...2016 Australian Accounting Awards
Oct 2016 Tax Round Up - Super reform & the proposed softening of the penalty regime
Your Questions - SMSF Audit & Compliance 2016
Superannuation reform explained: Good news first
Sept 2016 Tax Round Up - They're baaacckk....
Top Superannuation Q&As - August 2016
August Tax Round Up - when is a loan really a loan?
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - July 2016
Top Superannuation Q&As - July 2016
July Tax Round Up - who can access the 28.5% company tax rate?
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - June 2016
June Tax Round Up - Managing the new 10% withholding tax on property sales
Are you paying too much? 2016 public practice salaries
Top Superannuation Q&As - May 2016
Budget 2016-17: Target Practice
May 2016 Tax Round Up - what you need to know about commercial website expenditure
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - April 2016
April 2016 Tax Round Up - new guidance on restructure roll-over
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - Mar 2016
Top Super Q&As - Mar 2016
Not just a pretty face*
March 2016 Tax Round Up - New small business rollover relief from 1 July
Top Accounting Q&As - Feb 2016
Top Super Q&As - Feb 2016
Feb 2016 Tax Round Up - earnout reform, the problem with different share classes & CGT concessions
Christmas Cracker Jokes - Merry Christmas 2015
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - Dec 2015
Innovation Statement: The tax implications you need to know
Dec 2015 Tax Round Up - work related car expenses & what you should be doing now
Nov 2015 Tax Round Up - The case of the doctor, the trust and the girlfriend
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - October 2015
Oct 2015 Tax Round Up - Courts define trust streaming boundaries
Top Superannuation Q&As - Sept 2015
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - September 2015
September 2015 Tax Round Up - ATO target foreign workers
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - August 2015
Your Questions - SMSF Audit & Compliance Workshop 2015
Top Superannuation Q&As - August 2015
August 2015 Tax Round Up - new measures enacting Budget change
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - July 2015
Top Superannuation Q&As - July 2015
July 2015 Tax Round Up - pace of change explodes
$20k instant write off Q&As
June 2015 Tax Round Up - Budget progress & Uber-like services
Top Superannuation Q&As - May 2015
Budget 2015 - the 'have a go' Budget
May 2015 Tax Round Up - tax change for earnouts
Top Tax & Accounting Q&As - April 2015
April 2015 Tax Round Up – Share scheme reform explained
Tax discussion paper leaves debate wide open
Super top 5 Q&As - March 2015
March 2015 Tax Round Up - Major reporting changes for employers
Prime Minister Abbott reconfirms small business tax cuts
Feb 2015 Tax Round Up - the wave of tax change
Merry Knowledge Shop Christmas 2015
December 2014 Tax Round Up - withholding tax on non-residents
Nov 2014 Tax Round Up - employee share scheme reform
Does a dentist in a clinic pass the PSI test?
Do finders fees get around GST on sale of international products?
Claiming GST credits when purchasing from private sellers
Mining tax repeal and SBE rules - what's the correct write off?
Can trustees value SMSF property?
SG limits on 75 year old employee?
In-specie transfer of shares as a pension payment?
Coming of age: Converting an accumulation balance to a pension
Yea or nay? SMSFs investing in foreign property
Div 7A and quarantining a loan
Oct 2014 Tax Round Up - ATO attack on practice structures
Passing trust losses to the next generation
Partial sale of a trusts' business - does GST apply?
Capital or revenue? Swimming centre roof repairs
Distributions to corporate trustees - restrictions & requirements
Tax deductibility of patents
Is it a breach to lend 75% of an SMSF's assets?
Advisor interpretation: Avoiding pension payments being classed as a lump sum
Bring forward rule and changes to non-concessional caps
SMSF selling artwork to a member
Horseplay in an SMSF - Owning a race horse in an SMSF
The Mining Tax Repeal – The impact on small business
Identify Theft Alert – Is it really the ATO?
Sept 2014 Tax Round Up - Divorce and Company Assets
Game of Homes: CGT and changing investment property to main residence
Are legal fees included in the cost base of a property?
Can I apply the loss carry back rules in a 2013 tax return?
Deceased estates: Passing on property & the cost base
Can a sole trader keep an SBE depreciated asset?
In or out? Budget 2014 - Redrawing excess contributions
Do SMSF auditors need to do trustee character checks?
Related party builder - What can and can't be done
Taking a pension as an off-market share transfer
Timing of contributions and the 'work test'
Aug 2014 Tax Round Up - Trust Arrangements!
SMSF Audit & Compliance - Your Pre Session questions
Date a loan owed to a company is not caught by Div 7A?
Sister Act: Changing the specified individual of a trust
Determining the distributable position of a trust
Dividends & navigating the trans-Tasman rules
Trademarks, patent, IP... A blackhole of confusion!
Penalty regime - is each director fined?
GST treatment and a business of renovating houses
SMSF acquiring BRP with a residential premises?
SMSF, unit trust & related parties
Transfering property from a bare trust to a super fund
July 2014 Tax Round Up - Retrospective change & 2014 tax returns
Can you plan around the 2% debt tax?
Who is included in the $6m CGT net asset value test?
Claiming losses through the 'same business test'
Does CGT apply to a subdivided principal place of residence?
Budget 2014/15: How the deficit levy applies
How to treat directors fees
Identifying excepted net income
Spouses doing the splits (in super)
Can a SMSF develop vacant land?
What happens when minimum pension payments are not met?
June 2014 Tax Round Up - 2% Debt Levy it's broader than you think
What Type Of Manager Are You?
On revenue or capital account? Subdivision of land
Capital loss? When a trust cannot repay a loan
What the?! The interaction between UPEs and Div 7A
Transfer pricing and the issues with lending to a foreign related party
Employee share schemes and the CGT traps
Compulsory acquisition of land and CGT rollovers
Death and pensions - getting it right
When does the annual profit distribution from a related trust become and in-house asset?
Lending money through your SMSF for love or money
When is an arm's length investment by a SMSF not at arms length?
May 2014 Tax Round Up - ATO loss in SG contractor case
Budget Promises And Predictions
Commission of Audit - if you don't need it, you're not getting it
Are multiple accumulation and pension accounts allowed?
April 2014 Tax Round Up - Issues your clients won’t see coming
Is the loan to the Director or employee when they are one in the same?
Adding back capital works deductions
Trusts losses on capital account
Non-resident tax on Australian-sourced income
Deductibility of leasehold improvements
Related parties and winding up a SMSF
Business Real Property and the exemption for related party use
When is retirement not retirement?
Dividend income, franking credits and contributions
How is a SMSF taxed if the member is deceased?
Business structures – why getting it right is so difficult
March 2014 Tax Round Up - Compliance hot spots
Limitations of the 15 year CGT exemption
FBT or no FBT? Directors who are not employees
Till death do us part... Hello CGT
Immediate write-offs for property expenses?
Implications of missed pension payments in 2013 FY
Can a SMSF invest in a foreign unlisted company?
Implications of a Notice of disqualification for SMSF trustee
Garth's Hotties Feb 2014 - the hot SMSF issues
Feb 2014 Tax Round Up - Where change is up to
Business Valuation - 5 common mistakes valuers make
Merry Christmas from Knowledge Shop - how will you make a difference?
Dec 2013 Tax Round Up - Partnerships of trusts and more
Easton Investments to acquire Hayes Knight NSW and related entities
Nov 2013 Tax round up - change and more change
Cross Border Tax - the top 5 issues that catch advisers out
Garth's Hotties - hot SMSF issues for Oct 2013
Oct 2013 Tax round up Oct 2013 - SG vs contractor debate
Garth's Hotties Sept 2013 - hot SMSF issues
What now? The promises, possibilities and changes post election
Sept 2013 Tax Round Up - TR 2013.5 explained
Aug 2013 Tax Round Up - Statutory method changes explored!
July 2013 Tax Round Up
Accountants' Exemption: What are your options?
June 2013 Tax Round Up
May 2013 Tax Round Up
Assessing the super changes - what advisers need to know
April 2013 Tax Round Up
Garth's hotties March 2013 - hot SMSF issues
FBT 2013 Annus Horribilis webinar Tax Training
March 2013 Tax Round Up - more than an election campaign!
Garth's hotties Feb 2013 - hot SMSF issues
Business Valuations multiples - Science or Witchcraft??
Business Valuation - Working out the multiple, science or witchcraft??
Feb 2013 Tax Round Up - What’s new in tax & accounting
SMSFs and meeting the minimum pension standards
Division 7A under the microscope
Proof it's the silly season
Dec 2013 Tax Round Up - Part IVA changes
Top Accountants Q&As - SMSF hot right now
Super 2013 | The next 12 months
Nov 2013 Tax Round Up
Top Accountants Q&As - Oct 2012
A new website is born - our experience
Trusts: The essential update