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Question I am planning to set up an SMSF. I am transferring my industry fund to an SMSF after receiving a redundancy in 2019. The current balance in the Super account is $350,000. It will be a joint SMSF with my partner, who has an old super fund with just a few hundred dollars in …
Question Capital Gain in a Trust with revenue losses. Trust has only one beneficiary. Trust has revenue loss for the year of $29,788 with a Gross Capital Gain of $200,000 on the sale of the Business. Therefore accounting distribution is $170212. Tax return has a Capital Gain (Net after discount and active asset reduction) of …
Question I have several questions regarding how Capital Gains Tax would apply to a transfer of title of a residential property to one of my children. Background: In 1981, I purchased a residential property in Sydney and I was registered as the sole proprietor. From the date of purchase, my wife and I occupied the …
Question I bought a house in NSW with a vacant block adjoining in September of 2018. The block was on two separate titles but purchased from the one vendor. It was purchased solely in my name. We have lived in the house since purchase and have now decided to renovate the house we are in …
Question Facts * I setup a Trust and Corporate Trustee for our family back in 2009 shortly after our first son was born. * My wife and I are the (only) two directors of the Corporate Trustee. * I’ve not had any updates made to the Trust Deed since. * We made two—highly speculative, illiquid—private …
Question Dec 13 – My client & his brother in law purchased an investment property in Victoria. Did few repairs to put it on to rent. Jun 14 – Tenanted for 1 year up to Jun15 Oct 14 – Transferred 50% of their respective share to their wives owning 25% each after the transfer out …
Question In the recent drought, the lawn has completely dried out and died off. Now that the rain has arrived, everything has started growing again, however there is no longer any trace of lawn. The weeds have completely taken over. To maintain the property in a tenantable state, and to minimise vacancies, I am considering …
Question We moved to Australia in 1996 and would have continued to do so today but my elderly mother-in-law required looking after and we went back to New Zealand in 2007. During those 11 years in Australia we bought approximately $100,000 of shares (under my wife’s name) and now these shares are worth around $190,000. …
Question I currently own an apartment in my own name. I originally lived in the apartment and then moved out and rented the apartment (qualifying for the main residence exemption). I now live overseas and am caught by the governments latest changes which remove my CGT benefits if I sell the property while a non-resident. …
Question Balancing Adjustment: Motor Vehicles Extract from ATO:“If you cease to hold or use a depreciating asset, a balancing adjustment event may occur. If there is a balancing adjustment event, you need to calculate a balancing adjustment amount to include in your assessable income or to claim as a deduction. A balancing adjustment event occurs …
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