Financial planning articles & tips

New Changes to Queensland’s Land Tax: How Will it Affect You? 

The Revenue Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 was recently introduced following the announcement of land tax reforms in the 2021-22 Queensland State Budget Update.  The changes will apply to Queensland land tax assessments in the 2023-24 financial year.  Regardless of the relative merits and arguments supporting (or challenging) this ch...

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Meet Trixly Andrada

Trixly is one of our fantastic Paraplanners here at Empower Wealth! He is a Certified Financial Planner and holds a Bachelors Degree in Commerce, majoring in Accounting and a Diploma in Financial Planning. Transcript How did you get started in the financial planning industry? Hi, my name is Trixley Andrada and I'm a Paraplanner for Empo...

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The Family Home Guarantee Scheme

Note: This article is an extract from MLC.  If you’re a single parent with dependents, you may be eligible to purchase a home with as little as a 2% deposit via the Family Home Guarantee Scheme. How does it work? You usually need to save a deposit of 20% if you want to borrow to buy a home without needing to pay lenders mortgage ins...

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The First Home Guarantee Scheme

Note: This article is an extract from MLC. You may be eligible to purchase your first home with as little as a 5% deposit via the First Home Guarantee Scheme. How does it work? You usually need to save a deposit of 20% if you want to borrow to buy a home without needing to pay lenders mortgage insurance (LMI). Under the First Home Guarantee...

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Tax Planning Tips to Maximise your Returns (Part Two)

Talking Property Tax with Julia Hartman: Episode 2, Part 2 In our last Bonusisode, we featured Part One of Tax Planning Tips to Maximise your Returns and now we’re back to give you the rest of the gold!    We’ll be homing in on claiming travel expenses - especially if you’re a rental owner – and how you can best p...

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Tax Planning Tips to Maximise your Returns (Part One)

Talking Property Tax with Julia Hartman: Episode 2, Part 1 To celebrate (or more accurately, prepare) for the upcoming tax season, we’re back with the second episode of our new Property Tax education series called “Talking Property Tax with Julia Hartman”. As the old saying goes, “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fai...

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Meet Hong Nguyen

Hong is a Customer Support Officer in the Financial Planning team at Empower Wealth. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a major in Finance and Marketing. Transcript When I'm not working, I like to spend time with my friends and family. We like to catch up for dinner. We like playing board games. Personally, I like bingeing TV shows...

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The Myths and Facts of Insurance  

As you would appreciate, no one would buy a brand-new car and leave the showroom without insuring it.  So why is it then that thousands of Australians leave their house every day to go to work with minimal to no personal insurance coverage at all?   Just like insuring a new car because they know they need it, why is it that many Austra...

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Meet Victor Dao

Victor is a Financial Planner at Empower Wealth who has more than 10 years’ experience in the financial planning industry. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the Australian National University majoring in Accounting & Finance, a Diploma & Advanced Diploma in Financial Planning, and is a Certified Financial Planner ® with the...

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Meet Sage D’Costa

Sage is a Financial Planner at Empower Wealth with over 7 years’ experience in the wealth management and financial planning industry. Sage holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce (Finance/Financial Planning), Diploma of Commerce (Management) and a SMSF Accreditation Certificate with aspirations to attain further post graduate qualification as CF...

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Retirement: where to start

While many of us dream about the day we finally get to give up work and reap the benefits of our blood, sweat and tears, we often struggle to plan for it. After all, in the scuffle of immediate priorities, saving and planning for retirement don’t always make it to the top of the pile. But there’s a good chance you could be spending almos...

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Merry Christmas & What A Year!

Good day, Ben Kingsley here, for what has become a bit of a tradition with our annual Christmas message. I'm getting a little bit older, I think, and now having to wear the glasses. I probably look a little bit more like Santa Claus, probably just need the gray beard. But it's coming, everyone. I just wanted to say, it has been a pretty in...

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Merry Christmas & What A Year!

Good day, Ben Kingsley here with my annual Christmas message. I do this every year to our valued Empower Wealth clients and I just wanted to share an important message in what has been certainly one of the most interesting and challenging years that we will never forget. I want to focus in on a theme around having a plan because we did see when...

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