No tax penalty when restructuring your business

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Federal Parliament recently passed legislation that will allow small businesses to change the legal structure of their enterprise without incurring a capital gains tax (CGT) liability. Instead, the CGT liability can be deferred until eventual disposal. The legislation, ‘Tax Laws Amendment (Small Business Restructure Roll-over) Bill 2016′, will apply from July 2016. It provides an…

Cutting down to the essentials

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Self-managed super funds (SMSFs) are an attractive option for those who want more control over their retirement savings. However, trustees who have run a fund for as long as SMSFs have been in existence (around 20 years) are likely to have accumulated a lot of paperwork, especially if they engaged in various super strategies throughout…