Getting a great tax return can help you reach your financial goals faster. Whether it’s an overseas holiday or paying down some debt, your tax return can be used for a variety of life-affirming purposes. Think of it as a form of forced savings. In 2021, Australian taxpayers received an average tax refund of $2490 – not a bad incentive to make the most of tax time!
We all know that paying taxes is one of the certainties of life. For many it is a dreaded once-a-year event full of confusion and hassle. For others, they see the need to get prepared prior and look for ways they can minimize the amount of tax they have to pay, before the EOFY. If you want to keep more of your hard-earned money in your pocket, preparing early is a sure-fire way of maximising your tax return.
Are you a property investor who is looking to get the most out of your tax return? If so, you may be missing out on some key deductions. In this blog post, we will discuss some of the most commonly missed deductions for property investors.
Are you throwing money in the bin? This is potentially what is happening when you rely on the old school method of stuffing tax receipts into a shoebox. Ultimately, those paper tax receipts can become illegible and go missing. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way.
Capital gains tax has a way of hitting property sellers like a bolt from the blue when it comes time to sell their cherished investment property. Indeed, CGT often feels like an unjust attack on your profits. Nevertheless, knowing how capital gains tax is calculated, and how to reduce the potential amount of CGT when selling your investment property, might just leave you with a bigger grin on your face and a larger portion of your capital gains.
This year, the ATO is focusing on two specific areas in relation to car claims. The first is ensuring that taxpayers are only claiming the work-related portion of their car expenses. The second is making sure that taxpayers are not claiming private expenses as work-related expenses.
Australians plan to save their tax returns this year despite not knowing nor actively planning to maximise what they receive, according to TaxTank
New research from cloud-based tax software TaxTank reveals over half (56%) of Australians find tax time stressful, with the notion of missed deductions causing the greatest degree of anxiety.
If you use your car for both work and private purposes, you can only claim the percentage of car expenses that relate to work. For example, if you travel 100 km in a day and 50 km of that is for work, you can only claim 50% of your car expenses.
A Gold Coast tax accountant is saving Australians time, stress and money at tax time with a new low-cost, easy to use tech software, TaxTank.
The cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform transforms tax management and the end of year tax return into an automated, stress free process to help individual taxpayers claim their fair share of the billions refunded each year.
The Federal Government’s $8.6 billion cost of living package was the centerpiece of this year’s 2022 Federal Budget address. From temporary cuts of the fuel excise, to an expansion of the low and middle-income tax offset, the package contains various support measures aimed at easing rapidly rising cost of living expenses and business input costs.
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