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2003 NORTH QUEENSLAND CONVENTION - ANOTHER ROLL OF THE DICE...
Published on 21 Feb 2003 | Took place at Jupiters Townsville Hotel & Casino, Townsville, QLD
This two day convention covered a variety of topics including:
- Trusts - Estate Planning Considerations
- Division 7A and Section 109UB
- Interest Deductibility Recent Tax Cases & Rulings
- Other Tax Cases & Rulings
- GST Audits
- Partnerships - A Case Study
- Pensions 'You Bet Your Life!'
- Simplified Tax System and Imputation
- Estate Planning and Asset Protection
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Individual sessions
Trusts - Estate Planning Considerations
Author(s):
Matthew BURGESS
This seminar paper covers the following topics:
- testamentary trusts
- who should be the trustee?
- can the trustee be challenged?
- tips and traps - trusts
- when should a trust vest?
- Family Law Act
- child maintenance trusts.
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Division 7A and Section 109UB
Author(s):
Domenic FESTA
This seminar paper covers topics including:
- what is a distributable surplus?
- asset protection and company revenues
- transactions - caught and excluded
- permitted loans and payments
- avoiding the application of Section 109UB.
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Interest Deductibility Recent Tax Cases & Rulings
Author(s):
Robert Allerdice
This seminar paper covers topics including:
- recent cases - Steele, Hart, Anovoy, Jones and Firth
- interest incurred prior to earning income
- interest incurred after income has ceased
- split loan products.
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Other Tax Cases & Rulings
Author(s):
Stephen GRAW
This seminar paper provides an analysis of important Court decisions and key Tax Office rulings.
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GST Audits
Author(s):
Steve VESPERMAN
This presentation covers topics including:
- what are taxpayers doing wrong?
- what should tax agents be aware of?
- common mistakes by taxpayers
- areas of focus by the ATO
- ATO policy on penalties and interest
- examples of abuses by businesses
- trust's name or trustee's name?
- tax invoice in different name?
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Partnerships - A Case Study
Author(s):
Keith BURCHILL
This seminar paper covers topics including:
- formation - loan v capital
- partnership v joint venture
- work in progress
- entries and exits
- GST and stamp duty issues
- changing profit sharing ratios/salaries
- dissolution/retirement/succession issues
- partners' access to CGT concessions.
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Estate Planning and Asset Protection
Author(s):
Greg CAHILL
This seminar paper covers topics including:
- discretionary trusts
- superannuation funds
- basic recovery rules of bankruptcy and liquidation
- strategies for your clients
- restructuring and the effect of the demerger and value shifting rules
- distinguish between assets owned-v-controlled
- dealing with beneficiary loan accounts - forgive or assign?
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Pensions "You Bet Your Life!"
Author(s):
Allan MCPHERSON
This seminar paper covers topics including:
- lump sum withdrawals from allocated pension funds
- can complying pensions be paid by small funds?
- should death benefits be paid by way of pension?
- how is the value of a complying pension calculated?
- fixed term pensions
- advantages over lump sums
- tax treatment.
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Simplified Tax System and Imputation - How simple is it?
Author(s):
John NEWBY
Understanding the Rules
This seminar paper covers the following topics:
- are your divident statements sufficient?
- can you vary your benchmark franking percentage?
- what happens if you overfrank dividends?
- how does STS pooling affect luxury cars?
- what happens if the business use of a pooled asset changes?
- partnership rearrangements and depreciable assets.
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