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Payroll – Tips and traps of termination payments

Businesses will often face the termination of an employee’s employment. There are a number of reasons this may happen—for example,...

FBT, Public, Salary Packaging

Salary Packaging and FBT – Timing issues of employee contributions and the effect of a journal entry

Do you offer salary sacrifice arrangements to your employees? This article discusses the timing issues that you need to consider...

Public, Salary Packaging

Salary Packaging Q&A – Refunding after-tax contributions from ceased salary packaging arrangement

Our employee is ceasing their salary packaging arrangement and has excess after-tax contributions. If we refund these contributions, will they...

GST – The GST gap: Key risk areas identified in the 2017-18 GST administration annual performance report

The GST gap, which is the difference between the amount of GST that should be paid and the actual amount...

Eligibility, FBT, GST, Payroll, Public, Salary Packaging

General Article – E-invoicing, not electronic invoicing – there is a difference

Money flows out under digital process such as Single Touch Payroll (STP) – what if money could flow in through...

FBT Q&A – Car transferred to employee as part of redundancy package

Question An employee was made redundant and as part of his redundancy package there was the transfer of ownership of a...

FBT Q&A – Are exempt ‘workhorse cars’ subject to the car parking fringe benefit rules?

Do we need to pay FBT on the ‘car parking’ of a utility truck designed to carry a load of...

FBT – Overseas conferences: The apportionment conundrum!

Do you have staff attending conferences away from their usual place of residence? Attendance at overseas and interstate conferences raises...

FBT Q&A – What are the FBT implications of benefits and outplacement services provided to former employees?

What are the FBT implications of benefits provided to former employees? This Q&A discusses some possible exemptions for employers that...

Payroll, Public

Payroll – Why do we need to disclose exemption from FBT under s. 57A on an employee’s payment summary form?

Payment summaries now require an employer to indicate whether they are exempt from FBT under s. 57A of the FBTAA....

Payroll, Public

Payroll – What to expect from the NSW Review of Payroll Tax Administration

The NSW Productivity Commission (the Commission) has presented its conclusions from its review of the administration of payroll tax (PRT)—Review...

Public, Salary Packaging

Salary Packaging Q&A – S. 58X exemption: Do we need a declaration that covers portable electronic devices?

Question We would like to provide an employee with a declaration that shows they satisfy the requirements of an exempt...