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Tips for Setting Achievable, Productive Business Goals

Advivo Managing Partner, Leon Stephan, provides helpful tips for setting goals to effectively boost your business.   Let’s start with some key tips that are important for setting goals that are achievable and productive across all levels of a business. The SMART Goals framework, encapsulated below, is a good principle to follow: S: Specific M:…

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The Dos and Don’ts of Small Business Tax

Tips on Small Business Tax Small Business Tax can seem like a foreign language, especially when there are so many grey areas. That is why Chris Morris, our Business Development and structuring Specialist, has provided a general list of small business tax do’s and don’ts. DO – Begin with the end in mind. To determine…

Reducing Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) Liability for SMEs

What is Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT)? A fringe benefit is a benefit provided in respect of employment. This effectively means a benefit provided to an employee (or their associate) because they are an employee. An example of a fringe benefit being provided to an employee may be one of the following: Allowing your employees to…

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Timing Considerations for Your Succession Plan

Advivo Managing Partner, Leon Stephan, outlines the considerations you must make when it comes to the timing of your succession plan. Most small business owners make more (after allowance for their normal commercial wages for time spent working in the business) out of the sale of their business rather than operating the business. So, it…