Superannuation

It’s June and so many of us are thinking about any last minute tax deductions we can achieve. And this 2017/18 financial year almost all tax-payers can make a private, personal contribution into [...]

If there was a word to describe the Federal Budget 2018 it would be Vanilla. Perhaps scarred by the ghosts of budgets past, Scott Morrison announced a budget that was neither progressive nor [...]

As we approach the end of the financial year it’s time to think about whether you are eligible for the Government Co-contribution Scheme. This is a scheme designed to encourage low to middle [...]

Do you really need millions of dollars to retire? In reality most of us won’t have this sort of money, but that doesn’t mean we’ll be limited to eating baked beans. Upcoming on [...]

The superannuation fairy godmother has granted our wish – well one of them anyway. Introducing an alternative to salary sacrifice. Salary sacrifice to super is great. It lets you pay less [...]

2017 brought in some significant changes that affect recipients of benefits such as the aged pension. When a person receives the aged pension, their eligibility for that pension is affected by [...]

As the financial year draws to an end, our thoughts turn to the next one. Superannuation will look quite different in 2017/2018, and so we want to start the new financial year with a summary of [...]

As we have said before, we like to wait a few weeks before going to press with our thoughts about the annual Commonwealth Budget. This year has been no exception: we had scheduled our 2017 Budget [...]