From 1st July 2019, Single Touch Payroll is now compulsory and the ATO will deny deductions where employers fail to withhold tax from payments.
MAY 2019
With the end of the Australian Tax year fast approaching on the 30th June, you may want to start considering whether or not to make a contribution to your Austr…
After our own client scam attempt last year was successfully managed, we have now seen a broad scale threat for anyone in Australia as scammers have been callin…
For anyone that earned Australian sourced income during the 12 months to 30th June 2018, the deadline to lodge your annual Australian Income Tax Return has arri…
The Reserve Bank of Australia once again left official interest rates unchanged in their May announcement. The current rate of 1.5% has been in pay since Augus…
In December we concluded the acquisition of the financial planning business of The Owen Advisory Group (TOAG) and it is now trading under our SMATS Wealth busin…
The Australian dollar has continued its volatility from the end of 2018 into the new year.
In recent years we have made it a practice to video each of our major seminars and make them available online for anyone that couldn’t come along personally.
Every year on the 2nd Tuesday in May, the Australian Federal Government releases their Annual Budget, and the very next day we present our Annual Budget Review …

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COVID-19 has knocked Sydney off its perch as Australia’s most expensive city to rent a home, with that title now belonging to Canberra.
Housing finance hit an all-time high in November, with the latest official data indicating investors are starting to return to property markets across the country.
Property investor Chris Doyle has built a $2.7 million portfolio well before turning 40, and now he’s formulating a strategy to help others emulate his success.
Some holiday home buyers are overlooking five key strategies which can turn their costly lifestyle investment into a money-making asset.
After a year of unprecedented change across Australian property markets, commercial and residential experts at Knight Frank share 10 trends likely to take off in 2021.
Ray White Upper North Shore Director David Walker recently celebrated his tenth year with the Ray White Group in style by crashing through the $1 billion property sales milestone.
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