Excessive card surcharges banned to all businesses
Excessive card surcharges banned to all businesses Australia’s consumer law has changed to limit the amounts that businesses can surcharge customers for using payment methods such as credit, debit and prepaid cards. A ban on excessive card surcharges now applies…
Read moreSuper concessional contributions: beware of going over the limit
Super concessional contributions: beware of going over the limit If you are either an employee or a self-employed person and you top up your super by making deductible contributions, you need to be aware of not breaching the annual $25,000…
Read morePay your way: tax and the sharing economy
Pay your way: tax and the sharing economy The desire to pay less for goods and services coupled with the convenience of being able to conduct such transactions online or via apps, has lead large numbers of people to use…
Read moreValuing trading stock for share traders
A share trader who holds share as trading stock at the end of an income year must elect to value each share (as an item of trading stock), at cost, market selling value or replacement value. From a planning perspective,…
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