Budget 2018/19: Increased SMSF Mebmer Cap

The Coalition will increase the maximum number of superannuation members from 4 to 6. This will make inter generational superannuation and estate planning easier, plus combat the Labor Governments proposal of preventing SMSF’s in pension

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Budget 2018/19: Abolishing Super Exit Fees

The Coalition will look to prevent superannuation funds from charging exit fees. These fees discourage people from moving away from under performing funds because there is an unreasonable cost imposed in some cases. This will

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Budget 2018/19: Contractor Reporting Extended

The Coalition will expand the current “contractor reporting” requirements that apply to the construction and cleaning industries (and a few others) to more industries. Our guess is that eventually, all payments to contractors will need

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Budget 2018/19: Greater ATO Funding

The Coalition will provide the ATO an extra $450 mil to combat tax cheating. Greater ATO funding basically means more audits and compliance checks. The focus seems to be on:– Contractors that should be employees–

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Budget 2018/19: New ABN Framework

The Coalition will look at our current ABN framework and re-design it if need be to better suit current tax laws and values. No doubt in the gun are contractors who are able to obtain

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Budget 2018/19: Personal Tax Cuts

The Coalition will look to introduce personal tax cuts in 3 stages: (Now) Increase the 32.5% upper threshold to $90k, and introduce a new tax offset for those on low & middle incomes (2022) Increase

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