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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The Real Estate Institute of NSW is heaping pressure on the state government to provide additional support for landlords affected by COVID-19, saying several insurers were not honouring rent protection policies if a tenant’s rent is voluntarily reduced, while stimulus announced to date only is available to a small percentage of property owners.
Australia’s peak real estate industry group has warned the federal government that providing stimulus for new homes and not established dwellings could have detrimental effects on the property sector and the wider economy.
Sublease office space in Sydney’s CBD has surged to a 10-year high, but COVID-19 hasn’t been the primary cause, according to analysis by commercial agency CBRE.
ASX-listed residential leasing portal Rent.com.au says a recent surge in the number of renters getting ready to move is indicative of the increasing optimism in property circles that Australia is past the worst of the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19 has placed stamp duty reform back on the agenda in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia, with state governments expected to face tumbling revenue due to a sharp reduction in transaction volumes during the crisis.
Australian Property Investor Magazine this week sat down for a virtual coffee with leading Melbourne academic, Sam Tsiaplias, a senior research fellow in the Macroeconomics Research Program at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research.
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