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Refresher: The Main Residence CGT Exemption
March 19th, 2021When it comes to an important moment in your life like selling your family home, the last thing you want is to be slugged with an unnecessary tax liability. Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is something that we’ve covered at length in a few previous articles (see here and here); but today we’ll dig a littleread more
WA Property Market Update – February 2021
March 11th, 2021Plenty has been said about 2020 up to this point – and with a year so difficult it’s not hard to see why. As we’ve done plenty of “taking stock” in our last few articles, for the February WA property market update we’ll put a bit more emphasis on looking ahead. As consumer confidence continuesread more
Business Branding – Creating, Updating & Evolving
February 24th, 2021As accountants and business advisers, we help clients every day with the behind-the-scenes operations of their business. While tax, compliance, strategy, bookkeeping, and insurance are all critical components of running a business, the “look & feel” of things can often take a back seat. Business branding is an important piece of the puzzle not onlyread more
My Term Deposit is About to Mature – What are my Options?
February 19th, 2021Term deposits have been a staple of many people’s wealth portfolio for a long time. However, with interest rates slashed in recent years, we are now seeing the banks (especially the “Big 4”) offering miserly interest rates of around 0.5% per annum. This is now lower than the rate of inflation, so term deposit investorsread more
JobMaker Scheme Update & Key Information
February 12th, 2021As we explored in a recent article, the Government’s JobMaker Scheme aims to incentivise businesses to employ those whose work status has been impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Under the scheme, businesses can claim $200 per week for eligible employees aged 16-29 years; or $100 for those aged 30-35 years. Now that payments areread more
WA Property Market – 2020 in Review
February 2nd, 2021What a year 2020 was. Last year threw more curveballs and brought forth more global issues than anyone would have expected – but how did the WA property market fare overall? Our previous pieces on the WA property market, looking at various months throughout 2020, painted a picture of uncertainty, adaptability, and perhaps most ofread more
6 Key Metrics to Understand Your Business’ Financial Position
January 28th, 2021As is the case in every aspect of business, the financial side of any enterprise contains a lot of moving parts and requires not only a great deal of understanding, but a significant portion of your attention as well. While the day-to-day workload can get in the way of analysing your business’ financial position, thereread more
McKinley Plowman Appoint Two New Associate Directors
January 22nd, 2021After several years of solid growth, the opening of a new location, and the acquisition of some fantastic financial services firms, McKinley Plowman’s footprint across Perth has increased significantly. With this sustained period of growth, we have seen two of our own go from strength to strength in their respective divisions. Will Lyons and Benread more
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