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Quick Federal Budget Summary for 2024-2025
The 2024-25 Federal Budget has a number of highlights relevant to many of our clients, friends, and supporters explored further below.
Here are some important things about taxes and retirement savings from the Budget that can help people and businesses plan their finances.
The risks of getting shown the Red Card as an SMSF Trustee
In soccer, a player who is shown a red card is instantly sent off the field, disqualified from playing for the remainder of the match and cannot be replaced. The red card is issued for serious offences, violent conduct, dangerous play, and any action that brings the game into disrepute.
But in the world of SMSF, a red card from the regulator, the ATO, is much more painful and can be a permanent ban on a person ever being able to be the Trustee of their SMSF.
Managing the burden of student loans
If you’ve ever been a student striving for higher education in Australia, it won't take long before the terms 'HECS loan' or 'HELP loan' are likely to come up in conversation about ways to pay education tuition fees.
Close by are the questions about, 'Should I make voluntary repayments to my outstanding HECS-HELP debt,' and even 'What happens to my HECS-HELP debt if I die?
Plan on leaving something to your kids when you pass away?
Each year as we review the Google web traffic to our site, we regularly see in our top 10 most-read articles our blog article called, 'How to Split an Unsplittable Inheritance'.
Clearly, there's a lot of interest in this ongoing question, particularly now as most families in Australia own property or business assets - all different assets with different values – and these are by nature usually often hard to divide equally between beneficiaries to a Will, without destroying the value of those separate assets.
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- Getting control of SMSF Liquidity Risk
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- Only Owning Half the Business Pie
