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Immediate deductions for start-up costs

Start up business

Historically, taxpayers may have been able to claim a deduction for the costs associated with setting up a business or raising finance, including the costs incurred in: establishing a company or other business structure converting a business structure to a different structure raising equity for the business defending it against a takeover stopping carrying on…

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TED Talks: Tesla He – Virtual postcards get us closer

TED talks

“I have an image in my mind: a pair of eyes, of my grandma, looking at me full of hope.” His family back in China, himself working in Switzerland, Tesla He believed in the power of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies to help bring people closer together. Tesla grew up in China with the top education record from Elementary school to University. He came to Switzerland, and enrolled in a Master of Finance program in HEC Lausanne. His grade of the first semester broke the record of the past two years. As a result, he was offered to enter a PhD program directly. Tesla wanted to deliver an impact in industry. Therefore, he gave up this academic opportunity, and took a financial manager position at Nestlé. After two years of valuable experience there, he joined a start-up as a key partner. Together with the founding team, they grew the start-up from scratch to raiding CGF 35 millions. This experience helped him to realise that he enjoys delivering impacts. Now, with his team, they are developing a way to send virtual postcards that allow people to share immersive feelings.

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Small business car parking FBT exemption

Car parking

A business becomes liable for car parking fringe tax where it provides parking for more than four hours on its premises to its employees, and is situated within one kilometre of a commercial car park where the minimum all day cost is more than the current parking fringe benefit threshold ($8.66 a day for the 2017-18 FBT year).

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Client in Focus: Chessplus

We speak with Christian Simpson, founder of Chessplus, to talk about what inspired him to develop and refine such an interesting and slightly different concept of the traditional game of chess.

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TED Talks: Paul Tasner – How I became an entrepreneur at 66

It’s never too late to reinvent yourself. Take it from Paul Tasner – after working continuously for other people for 40 years, he founded his own start-up at age 66, pairing his idea for a business with his experience and passion. And he’s not alone. As he shares in this short, funny and inspirational talk, seniors are increasingly indulging their entrepreneurial instincts and seeing great success.

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Beware Division 7A when borrowing from your business

Business owners of private companies often borrow money from their own companies for all sorts of reasons. However, there is an area of the tax law that seeks to sanction against situations in which private companies dole out money to those within a business, in a form other than salary or dividends, that needs to be understood by business owners. This is known as Division 7A.

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Land Tax: State-by-State

Land Tax is a State based Tax consequently if you have properties in various States you will need to meet each states individual land tax regulations. So even if you have properties held by the same entity but in different States this entity will be required to lodge Land Tax Returns for each respective State.

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