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FBT Rate Increases Coming Soon – Take Action!
January 22nd, 2015Effective 1 April 2015, Fringe Benefits Tax will increase from 47% to 49%. In order to prevent individuals who earn more than $180,000 from self-sacrificing into fringe benefits to avoid extra tax, the temporary budget repair levy of another 2% has been imposed. In order to entice the best staff, minimise turnover and increase efficiency,read more
Maximize Your UK State Pension Entitlement – Pending Legislation Changes
January 16th, 2015Due to pending UK legislation changes, which come into effect on 6th April 2016, the new State Pension will be a regular payment from the UK government that you can claim if you reach State Pension age on or after 6 April 2016. You’ll be able to get the new State Pension if you areread more
Focus on Important not Urgent
January 8th, 2015With the new year underway, it's a brilliant time to truly focus on what's important and prioritise items to develop a plan of action with a timeline to achieve the target outcomes. This will require you to work each day on those things that are important to your success - whether that's personal, about yourread more
We at McKinley Plowman Wear Our Jeans on Fridays to Help Others in Need
December 12th, 2014Every Friday the 40+ staff of McKinley have a free dress day, but we don't have them just because, we have them to raise money and awareness for many different charities and people in need. A gold coin donation is our fee to come in casual clothes each Friday which goes to various charities acrossread more
Kick off the Year and Not Feel Guilty About All the Sweets Your Going to Eat
December 12th, 2014To add some sweetness to your year try these delicious ideas for gifts, dinner parties or just to enjoy over the Holidays. Try these yummy caramel and white chocolate fudge bites and place them in gift box ready as gifts for those friends and family that have a sweet tooth. You will need: 1 cupread more
McKinley Plowman Continue to Help Clients with International Matters
December 3rd, 2014Read the latest Quarterly Newsletter from ANZ MSI Global Alliance Our membership in MSI allows us to provide our clients with cross-border expertise and local knowledge in an increasingly complex global business environment. We can quickly and confidently call upon the local expertise of our trusted and reliable MSI partners for multi-jurisdictional matters, both internationallyread more
UK State Pension Changes for 2016!
November 28th, 2014Have you ever worked in the UK? This is a question that is more often than not answered with a ‘yes’ for residents of Australia. If you did previously work in the UK and paid National Insurance contributions (an additional tax that was deducted from your wages as an employee) then you are probably dueread more
Unclaimed Lost Shares, Bank Accounts and Life Insurance Hits $1Billion
November 13th, 2014The Treasury of The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a discussion paper questioning whether existing unclaimed monies laws achieve their intended aims as the currently unclaimed lost shares, bank accounts and life insurance totals around $1bn. What are the current laws? The period after which an account is be considered inactive wasread more
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