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Can salary sacrifice work for you?

Posted by Team AVS on 30 Nov, 2017  0 Comments

Salary sacrifice can be a great way to get a part of your remuneration in a form other than cash – and not personally pay tax on it.

Salary sacrifice (or salary packaging) is where you agree to take part of your wage as a benefit of some kind, equal in value to the salary it is exchanged for. The upside in you doing this is that your income tax is then based only on the reduced amount of salary that results.

If your employer agrees to go

Claiming business website development costs

Posted by Team AVS on 22 Nov, 2017  0 Comments

Most businesses have an online presence – whether to advertise their business or allow customers to purchase goods or services. Websites vary in costs and complexity – from a simple “skin” to a retail site that you may have engaged a web developer to design and set up.

It’s just as well then that the Tax Office has recently provided guidance on how you can go about claiming a deduction for your website development costs.


Hand in your own till? Beware Division 7A

Posted by Team AVS on 17 Nov, 2017  0 Comments

Business owners of private companies often borrow money from their own companies for all sorts of reasons. However, there is an area of the tax law that seeks to sanction against situations in which private companies dole out money to those within a business, in a form other than salary or dividends, that needs to be understood by business owners. This is known as Division 7A.


Tax treatment of foreign income earned by the Australian Residents

Posted by Team AVS on 7 Nov, 2017  0 Comments

Under Australia’s taxation regime, resident taxpayers are subject to income tax on both incomes derived in Australia and on foreign sourced income. As a general rule, where foreign income is derived by an Australian resident, the gross amount (including any foreign tax paid on the income) must be included as assessable income.


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