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10 Things I Hate About Your R&D Claim

10 Things I Hate About Your R&D Claim The Australian Government offers a generous incentive for Australian companies to conduct R&D activities in Australia. The ATO can refund up to 45% of your R&D expenditure. Such an attractive proposition leads many to...

Payroll Tax and Healthcare Clinics

Payroll Tax Payroll Tax and Healthcare Clinics RevenueSA have announced a payroll tax amnesty for medical clinics in South Australia. Medical centres around Australia have been put on notice since the release of the judgement in Thomas and Naaz Pty Ltd v Chief...

ChatGPT For Lawyers

This article was posted to https://bulletin.lawsocietysa.asn.au/Bulletin/Content/Articles/2023/May/will_chatgpt_replace_all_lawyers.aspx ChatGPT For Lawyers “The first thing we do, lets [replace] all the lawyers”Another day, another prediction that Artificial...

Why I Hate Your Sub-Trust

There is a certain type of sub-trust over income that many trust deeds purport to create, and which the Fenderal Commissioner purports to allow. This is where a trust is established over the income distributed from another trust. This is problematic for the reasons...

ATO DEBT RECOVERY PART 4

REVIEWS AND OBJECTIONS Types of Reviews Available There are various review processes available should you be unsatisfied with the decision Informal Review You may lodge a formal complaint with the ATO: To do this you will need to access the ‘complaints form’ on the...

ATO DEBT RECOVERY – PART 3

Garnishee Notices A garnishee notice is a document sent by the ATO to a third party that owes or holds money to or for tax debtor which demands payment for unpaid tax debt where initial attempts have failed; What are they? issuing of a garnishee notice a garnishee...

ATO DEBT RECOVERY – PART 2

ESTIMATE NOTICES Background: An Estimate is a formal notice that the ATO can issue under section 268-15 of Schedule 1 of the Taxation Administration Act 1953 (‘The Act’): The ATO can issue an Estimate Notice if it believes that a business has overdue: PAYG withholding...

ATO DEBT RECOVERY – PART 1

Director Penalty Notices (“DPN”) A company is a useful structure to achieve asset protection, protecting the assets of those who are ultimately controlling the activities of the company (the directors) and benefitting from the income producing activities of the...

Should We Be 50% Amish?

In my view, humans have the potential to always be superior to robots in contextual reasoning, lateral thinking, judgment, advocacy, and morality. This does not mean that every human is better than every robot in relation to each of those. Instead, humans as a...

Should Code be Property?

Computer code underpins the technology in our modern environment.  It is often a form of property, being the copyright of the authors.  But besides from that, could code become its own form of separate property?Digital AssetsIf you write a computer program, as the...

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10 Things I Hate About Your R&D Claim

10 Things I Hate About Your R&D Claim The Australian Government offers a generous incentive for Australian companies to conduct R&D activities in Australia. The ATO can refund up to 45% of your R&D expenditure. Such an attractive proposition leads many to...

ChatGPT For Lawyers

This article was posted to https://bulletin.lawsocietysa.asn.au/Bulletin/Content/Articles/2023/May/will_chatgpt_replace_all_lawyers.aspx ChatGPT For Lawyers “The first thing we do, lets [replace] all the lawyers”Another day, another prediction that Artificial...

Why I Hate Your Sub-Trust

There is a certain type of sub-trust over income that many trust deeds purport to create, and which the Fenderal Commissioner purports to allow. This is where a trust is established over the income distributed from another trust. This is problematic for the reasons...

ATO DEBT RECOVERY PART 4

REVIEWS AND OBJECTIONS Types of Reviews Available There are various review processes available should you be unsatisfied with the decision Informal Review You may lodge a formal complaint with the ATO: To do this you will need to access the ‘complaints form’ on the...

ATO DEBT RECOVERY – PART 3

Garnishee Notices A garnishee notice is a document sent by the ATO to a third party that owes or holds money to or for tax debtor which demands payment for unpaid tax debt where initial attempts have failed; What are they? issuing of a garnishee notice a garnishee...

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