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Individual tax returns

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Individual tax returns
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Individual tax returns

Ensuring that your tax return is completed correctly and on time, ensuring that you claimed all allowable deductions and rebate entitlements, including.

  • Work related deductions, whether you travel, use your car, purchase equipment to assist you perform your job

  • Rental properties – ensure you are claiming all your rental property deductions. It can get complicated when re-financing rental property loans, ensuring it complies to preserve your negative gearing.

  • Capital Gains Tax – if you have sold a property, artwork, shares or redeemed investments, you may be subject to capital gains tax.

  • Investment Income including foreign income. The ATO is increasing its data matching capabilities, ensuring you include all assessable income.
  • Are you a sole trader – completing additional schedules for your business to be lodged with your individual return.
  • Tax Compliance for your business

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    Tax Compliance for your business
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    Tax Compliance for your business

    We can assist your business to ensure it complies with all business taxes including:

  • Income Tax – lodgement of your company, trust, partnership returns

  • GST including lodgement of your quarterly business activity statements

  • Payroll Tax

  • Workcover

  • End of financial year compliance issuing payment summaries etc

  • Taxable payments reports for businesses in the construction industry

  • Advice on Fringe Benefits Tax

  • Business Advice

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    Business Advice
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    Business Advice

    We can assist in all areas including:

  • Forecasting and budgeting

  • Financial statements to support finance applications

  • Bookkeeping - If you need assistance with bookkeeping, or want to hand over the whole job. We are experienced with MYOB, Xero, Quickbooks, Reckon Accounts. We can also work with numerous industry specific packages’ accounting modules.

  • If you feel your business needs a “health check” we can review your trading history, look at your debt position, and give you sound advice as to what is going well, and any areas for improvement.

  • Selling your business and succession planning

      2 aspects here which are equally important,

    • maximise the value of your business, and this should be considered at every stage, not just when you are considering selling.

    • Ensuring that you get the best “tax” result for the sale to maximise the amount you receive to either retire or move on to another business.

  • You may be in a family business and need to work out how you transition the business from the parents to the children – let me help.

    Starting a new business

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    Starting a new business
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    Starting a new business

    If you are starting a new business – We can assist you:

  • Consider structures - sole trader vs company vs partnership vs trust, and establish it for you, including ASIC registration

  • Applying for TFN, and ABN, deciding whether to register for GST, employing staff, engaging subcontractors, payroll tax, workcover, selecting the right accounting system.

  • These are all questions you will face, let us help you navigate the issues, so that you are able to work in your business not on the business.

    We have systems in place to make it easy to meet your obligations on time, with minimal fuss.

    Subcontractor Tax Compliance

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    Subcontractor and Sole Trader
    Tax Compliance
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    Subcontractor and Sole Trader Tax Compliance

    If you are a subcontractor or sole trader, we can assist you with what you need to get set up.

    This includes:

  • Getting an ABN

  • Deciding whether to register for GST

  • Understanding the personal services rules

  • Maximising your deductions

  • Ensuring you have set aside enough to cover your tax bill

  • Managing the “pay as you go” instalments in the second year of contracting

  • Self-Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF)

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    Self-Managed Superannuation
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    Self-Managed Superannuation Funds (SMSF)

    If you have a self-managed superannuation fund, entrust its administration and compliance to LG Advice.

    We can attend to administrative matters, prepare financial statements and lodge the SMSF income tax return for you.

    Our service is price competitive to ensure that your compliance costs remain reasonable and without headaches.