Finance
All that glitters is not gold: Calculating the small business tax break
Max Newnham Working out how much you can claim under the government's instant asset write off can be a complicated process.
Keeping good companies with trusts
Max Newnham When setting up a trust and using a company as the trustee what type of company do you set up?
Productivity drag continues with capex budgets stalled
Robert Spano COMMENT: Record low interest rates should be conducive to investment, but continued economic uncertainty is causing SMEs to hold onto their cash and ultimately resulting in lower productivity.
Should my company buy another car?
Max Newnham A reader wants to find out whether her company should purchase a second vehicle for mixed purpose use.
Accountants on the frontline
Tim Reed COMMENT: The value of an accountant has been transformed from one of compliance to that of an adviser.
How do SME tax concessions work?
Max Newnham The first targeted small business tax concessions were introduced in September 1999. Since then there have been other concessions and incentives with the most recent being an immediate write off of assets purchased costing of under $20,000 by the federal government in the 2015 budget.
When small businesses win, we all win
Julie Rynski COMMENT: The latest results of the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Small Business Index show there's a stronger sense of optimism than there has been for some time.
Australia's biggest tax question
Max Newnham Why should I earn extra income because I will only end up paying more tax?
Why aren't you using points?
Martin Seward COMMENT: Small businesses are missing out on 450,000 return Sydney to Melbourne flights each year.
Managing money pressures
Andrew Watson COMMENT: How SMEs can manage financial considerations for export.
Claiming start-up costs
Max Newnham How should you claim costs when your business is not yet earning income?
Disrupting the payments sector
Louis White A slew of upstarts is challenging the dominant players in this space.
GST rules explained
Max Newnham Cash flow is an important determinant about whether a business should register for GST.
Six strategies to drive revenue in the new financial year
Mark Allsop COMMENT: Have you thought about what you can be doing differently to drive profits in FY15/16?
The tax changes not in the headlines
Max Newnham What are some measures announced in the federal budget that haven't been widely discussed?
Making business insurance work for you
Christine Long How can an enterprise survive a catastrophic natural disaster?
CROWDFUNDING
Seven crowdfunding tips
Christopher Niesche Learn how to raise money from the people who have generated tens of thousands this way.
The secret to securing funding
Christopher Niesche There's one way to buy a business that's almost guaranteed to get the banks across the line.
Small business wants to be freed of super responsibilities
Sally Rose The small business lobby wants responsibility for managing employee superannuation records to be stripped from employers altogether, a radical overhaul that would make the industry's overtime and over budget SuperStream reforms irrelevant.
Deductions: how do they work?˛
If I trade in my $6000 car for a new $25,000 car before June 30 can I write it off in this year's tax return?
Never have a meeting in a coffee shop again
Alexandra Cain Too ashamed of your office to invite clients in for meetings? Now's the time to splash some cash on new furniture.
Deductions and cars: the rules
Max Newnham How do proposed rules to give small business owners access to immediate tax write-offs for expenses that cost less than $20,000 work?
