by Team Garnet | Aug 5, 2022 | Small Business, Tax News
An employee’s private use of an electric car provided by an employer may soon be exempt from FBT if newly introduced legislation passes Parliament. During the 2022 election campaign, Labor announced its Electric Car Discount policy in order to make electric cars...
by Team Garnet | Feb 24, 2022 | Small Business, Tax News
The government has proposed to make COVID-19 tests, both rapid antigen and polymerase chain reaction tests, tax deductible for individuals where they are purchased for a work-related purpose. After the recent furore over the non-existent supply of COVID-19 rapid...
by Team Garnet | May 26, 2021 | Business Structures, Small Business, Tax News
The 2021 Fringe Benefits Tax return for the period 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021 is due soon. For those businesses that prepare their own returns, lodgment of the return can be made up until 25 June 2021 without incurring a failure to lodge on time penalty. Although...
by Team Garnet | Apr 29, 2021 | Investments, Tax News
Many of you have heard of family trusts, but perhaps don’t know too much about their benefits and how they differ from the usual non-fixed trusts. Essentially, a family trust is a trust where the trustee has made a valid family trust election (FTE) for tax purposes....
by Team Garnet | Mar 31, 2021 | Business Structures, Small Business, Tax News
At the onset of COVID-19 in Australia in March 2020, many businesses moved fast to provide much-needed flexibility to allow their employees to work from home. As the end of the 2020-21 FBT year approaches, the question for employers then becomes, what are the FBT...
