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Involved “associate” issues come up frequently on this blog. For instance: Minority SMSF investors and related unit trustsWhy setting up offshore companies for Australians is a tricky business In this piece I am looking at some core associate rules concerning income tax deductions: how the Income Tax Assessment Acts (ITAA) can restrict income tax deductions […]
Exotic share classes, such as redeemable preference shares and dividend only (dividend access [DA]), shares are a longstanding concern for a private company seeking to access the small business CGT concessions (the Concessions) in Division 152 of the Income Tax Assessment Act (ITAA) 1997. Exotic share classes can derail qualification as a significant individual and […]
A family discretionary trust (FDT) often has a corporate trustee (TCo) for limited liability and other reasons. With a private company able to access a 30% or lower tax rate on an income distribution received from a FDT, distribution to a private company such as TCo can be a way to access a lower company […]
Duty on transfer to a discretionary testamentary trust beneficiary According to Revenue NSW section 63 of the Duties Act (NSW) 1997 does not extend concessional relief to the transfer of dutiable property by a testamentary trust (TT) trustee to a beneficiary. Concessional duty of $50 applies to: (a) a transfer of dutiable property by the […]
CGT beginnings With wage and salary earners taxable on virtually every dollar they earn from their work, sources from the Asprey Report (1975) through to the tax summit of 1985 identified the lack of a capital gains tax as a tax regressive unfairness in the Australian income tax system which then relied on a narrower […]
On 15 June 2022 the High Court in Hill v Zuda Pty Ltd [2022] HCA 21 ruled against a challenge to earlier court decisions that a binding death benefits nomination (BDBN) made under the governing rules (GRs) [trust deed] of a self managed superannuation fund (SMSF) need not lapse after three years of the nomination […]
