BLB News

Life's Too Serious ...

29/07/2014

Doctors are busy people so maybe it's not surprising when their notes on patient's charts are a bit rushed. Let's hope the treatment isn't. Here's 5 examples of things actually appearing on patient's charts.

Can my trust or SMSF enjoy the Land Tax threshold?

30/06/2014

A brief overview of the eligibility of unit trusts and SMSFs for the land tax zero rate threshold

Life's Too Serious...

30/06/2014

What an awful thing to say...

Dodging a bullet - new laws for breaching contributions cap

26/06/2014

What appeared to an SMSF member at first to be a simple re-shuffling of money between super accounts has resulted in the confirmation of an excess contribution tax assessment by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and has highlighted why the new changes to the contribution cap could mean a world of difference for future excess contributions.

Adding insult to injury: repaying a loan used to buy failed investment

26/06/2014

In April 2014 we reported on a case where the lender to investors in a geared investment scheme successfully recovered in excess of $1million from one investor even though the investor had already lost all the money invested in the failed scheme. But a new case shows it ain't always so.