Proactive Ponder
Proactive tips and advice for you and your business
Rental Depreciation – Reaping Rental Rewards
Getting the Most out of your Property Tax Return Your rental property offers a range of benefits beyond just making your portfolio look good. If you own a rental property, then you probably look forward to the benefits you can claim at tax time such as rental...
Explaining Work-Related Expenses
Will Your Claims Stand Up Against The ATO? On a slow Friday towards the end of the financial year, you’ll typically find professionals across all industries looking into their records to see what can be claimed as work-related expenses. While the criteria remains the...
7 Deadly Sins of Tax Planning
Are you making these tax time mistakes? It’s that time again. No, not coffee time… tax time! June 30 is fast approaching and with it a collective sigh from business owners and employees everywhere. Because everyone’s thinking the same thing: am I getting the most out...
Goals seem out of reach?
Here's 5 are easy strategies to see results today So the year is flying by already, and if you joined last quarter’s Proactive Ponder, you have likely hit the year with some fresh energy and resolve to make things happen! But life also happens. The demands and routine...
Mythbusting Goals: How to make goal setting work for you
Mythbusting Goals: Exploring different types of goal setting and how to make goal setting work for you - not the other way around! Well, it’s that time of year again (although here we can hardly believe it!). December is fast approaching and naturally, our minds turn...
Drought Downpour
Drought Downpour: How to find the answers you need when drought assistance information has reached saturation point. Well...the media storm has blown over, but the drought continues right across New South Wales and beyond. With the intense coverage and fast-paced...
Tax Planning is Boring
Tax Planning with a Tax Advisor can be SO Boring! The perspective from a non-accountant guy… Having spent the last 5 years working alongside an Accountancy firm (aka Catalyst Accountants), I’d like to express my thoughts on the term “Tax Planning” delivered by your...
Current Funding Opportunities for your Business Ideas
“Big Ideas require Big Budgets! Where do I get the money for that?” A Guide to Current Funding Opportunities for your Business Ideas So here we are already one quarter in to the new year and perhaps your well intention'd 'New Years Resolutions' are beginning to show...
Changes to Rental Property Depreciation for Property Investors
Rental Property Depreciation - Major Changes in Australia in 2017 In 2017, Australian property investors were subject to significant changes to property depreciation laws, with the government implementing changes to the Housing Tax Integrity bill. The government has...
Housing Affordability Crisis – How an Accountant advises their Child to enter the property market
Housing Affordability Crisis - "What I would do, if I were 20 and knew what I know now" According to the media, and for the most part also the government, the numbers of young people in metropolitan areas purchasing homes is in rapid decline, as a direct result of...
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