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Small Business Entity Eligibility & Grouping

Establishing whether a taxpayer meets the eligibility criteria
The grouping rules
Dealing with affiliates and connected entities

 

The tax system contains a range of concessions that are available to individuals or entities that are classified as a small business entity (SBE). The focus of this module is determining whether an entity is classified as an SBE, with a particular focus on the grouping rules that apply in order to determine an entity’s aggregated annual turnover.

 

See the IQ module outline. 

 

 

The Small Business Entity Eligibility & Grouping Module is part of the Intermediate I Program of 10 modules specifically designed to manage the training needs of your Intermediate team members across a year.

 

More on the Intermediate Program

Level
Intermediate

Length
55.46 minutes + quiz questions

Access
24/7 for 12 months

Resources
Downloadable reference notes

PD Hours
1.4 PD Hours

Introduction & Outline (0:36) 

What's available to SBEs (4:25)

  • The benefits available to SBEs
  • What concessions are automatic and what concessions are optional

Conditions to be an SBE (4:41)

  • Qualifying as an SBE and the application across years
  • The three turnover tests in detail, their application and the issues

Issues to note (2:29)

  • The problem with partnerships - if and when they can be classified as an SBE
  • How the SBE rules apply when a business is winding up

 

'Carrying on a business' (4:03)

  • What does 'carrying on a business' mean

  • Why carrying on a business applies differently depending on the entity type

 

Turnover (11:42)

  • Calculating the turnover threshold

    • Turnover threshold across the different concessions
  • Calculating aggregated turnover
    • What is included and what is excluded
  • Practical example of how aggregated turnover applies
  • What is turnover
    • What is included and excluded
    • What to do if the business has not been carried on for a whole year

 

The grouping rules

 

Affiliates (9:58)

  • How to determine who and what is an affiliate
  • Who is not an affiliate
  • What to do with family members

 

Connected entities (2:52)

  • How to determine if an entity is a connected entity

  • Understanding control interests

Control of company (2:30)

  • How the control rules apply

  • Determining if control exists

Control of a partnership (2:32)

  • The two types of partnerships and the implications

  • How the control rules apply

  • Determining if control exists

 

Control of a trust (3:21)

  • How the control rules apply to different types of trusts

  • Determining if control exists 

Control of a trustee (2:06)

  • The recent changes to the rules
  • Determining if control exists
  • The importance of looking beyond formal roles

Trusts with no distributions (1:53)

  • The special rules for the small business CGT concessions
  • How the trust still may pass the active asset test

 

Connected entity exclusions (2:25)

  • The rules that may help your client ignore a connected entity and how to apply it

 

Quiz 1 (1:45)

  • Quiz 1 outline
  • Quiz 1 answer explained

 

Quiz 2 (1:30)

  • Quiz 2 outline
  • Quiz 2 answer explained

 

Quiz 3 (2:18)

  • Quiz 3 outline
  • Quiz 3 answer explained

 

Quiz 4 (2:05)

  • Quiz 4 outline
  • Quiz 4 answer explained

 

Quiz 5 (1:53)

  • Quiz 5 outline
  • Quiz 5 answer explained

Reference notes are provided with this module.

 

 

IQ Presenter

Michael Carruthers

 

Tax Director, Knowledge Shop

Michael Carruthers Director Knowledge Shop

Michael oversees the development of the tax team for Knowledge Shop and Hayes Knight in Sydney and is head of the Hayes Knight group’s national tax committee. 

 

Michael has a knack for seeing through the complexity and helping practitioners work through highly technical issues with certainty and accuracy. 

 

He is a member of the advisory panel for the Board of Taxation and was an expert panel member for the Board of Taxation’s review of tax impediments facing small business.

 

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Michael was the Thought Leader of the Year at the 2016 Accounting Awards