Workers Compensation Audits

Workers Compensation covers employees and employers in the event of a work related injury or disease. Through this system, injured workers have an entitlement to payments either weekly, lump sums or payment of medical bills and rehabilitation in some cases. Having a...

Understanding Fringe Benefits Tax

A fringe benefit is a payment made to an employee or their associates (e.g. a family member) during the course of employment that is not in the form of salary or wages. The Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) is the tax associated with these different forms of payment, with the...

R&D Tax Incentive 2014

What does this incentive mean for you? Replacing the research and development tax concession, the Government introduced the research and development (R&D) tax incentive in 2011 with the aim of boosting competitiveness and improving productivity across the...

The need to limit access to start-up tax breaks

In 2009, the Labor government introduced tax changes which saw employees being taxed when share options were received from their company, rather than when the share options were sold or became full shares.  While these changes were implemented in an effort to curb and...