Welcome to our October 2015 Newsletter
Timely Opportunities
Business Name Renewal Reminder
Business name renewal is a simple process. Business owners have been reminded by ASIC to renew their business names or risk them being cancelled. The reminder comes after ASIC cancelled more than 95,000 business names in the first half of 2015.
Superannuation and Financial Planning
Tax Deductions for Meeting Employer Superannuation Obligations
Superannuation payments made by employers on behalf of their employees are tax deductible in the financial year they are paid as long as they are paid by their due dates. To maximise deductions, employers should ensure that the contributions are paid to their employees’ superannuation funds before 30 June.
Trusts are widely used for investment and business purposes. The trustee is responsible for managing the trust’s tax affairs, including registering the trust in the tax system, lodging trust tax returns and paying tax liabilities arising from assessments. It’s important that trustees are across tax issues.
This article was originally written by Trish Power , you can find the original article here.
SMSF basics: Trish’s 10 commandments of DIY super
If you’re running a self-managed super fund, then you’re obviously aware that being a SMSF trustee/member is a very different experience to belonging to a large super fund. In a large super fund, someone else looks after your superannuation benefits. As a SMSF trustee, you make all of the C-A-R-T decisions. CART is a term that I have coined to help trustees understand their fund responsibilities and it stands for Compliance, Administration, Reporting and Tax obligations.
Another helpful tool that I use is my list containing the 10 commandments of DIY super. Over the past decade, when presenting to investment forums on DIY super, I often used the term ‘ten commandments’ as a tool to help the audience grasp the major rules that apply to self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Here are my 10 commandments of DIY super.
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