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What’s the Deal with Working from Home?

Heather Moore
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has updated its approach to how you claim expenses for working from home. The ATO has ‘refreshed’ the way you can claim deductions for the costs you incur when you work from home. From 1 July 2022 onwards, you can choose either to use a new ‘fixed rate’ method (67…
2023 Strategy

Full throttle in 2023

Heather Moore
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In a volatile market, keeping to a strategy, or let’s face it creating one, can be tough. The downside of not taking time out for your strategy is that there is a tendency to keep a short-term focus at an operational level to try and pick quick wins to generate financial returns. Sometimes in the…
Tax Increase

To Cut, or Not to Cut?

Heather Moore
Stage three personal tax cuts In September, amid a climate of startling interest rates, UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng announced a series of tax cuts, including the reduction of the top personal income tax rate that applies to those earning more than £150,000 from 45% to 40%. Just ten days later, following market turmoil that saw…

How High Will Interest Rates Go?

Heather Moore
The RBA lifted the cash rate to 1.85% in early August 2022. The increase comes a few weeks after Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe told the Australian Strategic Business Forum that “…we’re going through a process now of steadily increasing interest rates, and there’s more of that to come. We’ve got to move away from…

It’s Not Easy Being Green

Heather Moore
Climate change featured heavily during the election and now the Albanese Government is putting into place some of the promises it made. We look at the current state of play and the likely impact. The Government’s Climate Change Bill passed the House of Representatives in early August and is now before the Senate Environment and…

ENTREPRENEURS SHOW HOW TO START THRIVING BUSINESS ON A SHOESTRING

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Imagine using the free wi-fi at the public library to launch your small business. Finn Peacock did just that as he set up his business on a shoestring budget. Peacock founded SolarQuotes with $500 and a credit card for advertising. Today, it turns over about $3 million a year. Finn Peacock’s initial spend on Solar…
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