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Disability Awareness: A Different Perspective For Professional Advisers

Published on 22 May 2015 | Took place at Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart, TAS

In our society, which is fostering an ever-increasing acceptance and integration of the people with disabilities, many practitioners have clients with one or more disabilities and are being asked more commonly to advise parents, families, carers, employers and other stakeholders about disability issues. However, unless you are directly impacted, it can be difficult to know the ins and outs of the changing arena of the disability sector.

This event covered many of these key issues, which are often overlooked by professional advisers.

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Individual sessions

Employment in the disability sector: The legal framework and issues

Author(s):  Craig Green

This paper covers:

  • part 1 - the legal framework for employers of persons with disabilities
  • Australia’s national workplace relations system
  • supported wage system
  • assistance for people in a job at risk
  • scope of the supported wage system assessment rate
  • review of minimum wage
  • who qualifies for these special minimum wages?
  • part 2 - workplace health and safety
  • employer responsibilities
  • inherent requirements
  • can an employer force an applicant to disclose disability?
  • can an employer make health assessments compulsory?
  • part 3 - discrimination
  • disability considerations throughout the employment cycle
  • part 4 - issues for parents/carers of a person with disability who are working
  • getting work/keeping work
  • part 5 - employing others to work with people with disabilities.
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Special disability trusts - Structure and control issues

Author(s):  Sam McCullough,  Kimberley Martin

This paper covers:

  • special disability trusts: an introduction
  • recent improvements to the tax treatment and flexibility of these structures
  • when are SDTs most beneficial?
  • options for funding a special disability trust during life and/or after death
  • use to reduce risk of family provision claims
  • options for controlling the capital of a SDT on the death of the principal beneficiary.
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Death and income tax issues

Author(s):  Linda Tapiolas

This paper covers:

  • administration of the estate
  • summary of CGT rules for deceased estates
  • small business CGT concessions and death rules
  • assets passing to a beneficiary of a testamentary trust
  • trust income and Section 102AG (special purpose trusts).
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What’s the NDIS all about anyway?

Author(s):  David Clements

This presentation covers:

  • key reforms
  • National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013
  • trial site facts and figures
  • eligibility
  • planning
  • the marketplace
  • full transition to the NDIS.
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