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Everything you Need to Know about Crypto Tax 

Other than in the very rare circumstances where crypto is just purchased to buy a personal asset, any gain or loss you make on crypto is subject to tax. So don’t forget to bring your details with you when you do your tax return. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) are right onto data matching your transactions we are already seeing the sal...

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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 fail...

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Do Not Let Your Conveyancer Talk You Into Registering For GST!

When it comes to registering a property for GST, it's always best to check with an experienced property Accountant before. Get it wrong and you will have to pay the ATO 1/11th of the sale proceeds, even if the bank ends up taking the whole lot to repay your loan.  Twice in one week clients have come to our National Accountants network having b...

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Principal Place of Residence CGT Exemption

The recent increases in housing prices make it more important than ever to ensure you home is fully protected from Capital Gains Tax (CGT) by your main residence exemption. Afterall CGT is really just a tax on inflation.  If your home misses out on the exemption you are unlikely to have enough left to buy another home after you pay the tax...

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Tax Deductions When Working From Home

Don’t forget to keep all the records you will need to be able to claim the associated costs as a tax deduction. None of the claims listed below will affect the CGT main residence exemption on your house. The CGT main residence exemption is more a factor of whether you see the public there or that it is advertised as a place of business. If yo...

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The Top 5 Tax Planning Rules Every Property Investor Must Understand

Talking Property Tax with Julia Hartman: Episode 1 You can’t avoid it, so you might as well learn to understand it. Better still, the more you know about it, the more you can ‘work’ with it, instead of working against it. What are we talking about? Tax. Getting the right tax advice can result in vastly improved financ...

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