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Due Dates

21 March 2024 Lodge and pay February Monthly Business Activity Statement and Instalment Activity Statement 31 March 2024 Lodge and pay 2023 tax return for

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Special Budget Edition

Federal Budget 2022-2023 Update With the release of the 2022-23 Federal Budget by the Morrison Government last night, we have provided a brief but comprehensive

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Assistance Newsletter

Dear clients of Plant & Associates, Given the impact that the recent flooding and storms that have caused havoc for residents and businesses in South-East

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SmartVault

SmartVault In case you missed it, SmartVault have launched a fresh new look to your secure client portal. Here is the link from February’s newsletter

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Tax Time Checklists

Tax Time Checklists With tax time just around the corner, we’d like to remind you that we have a plethora of checklists available in the

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Common Bookkeeping Mistakes

Common Bookkeeping Mistakes Not reconciling bank accounts and credit card account could result in missed and/or duplicated income and expenses. Also when banks are not

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Tax Time Checklists

Tax Time Checklists With tax time just around the corner, we’d like to remind you that we have a plethora of checklists available in the

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Due Dates

21 June Lodge and pay May 2021 monthly business activity statement. 25 June Lodge and pay 2021 Fringe benefits tax annual return for tax agents if lodging electronically. 30 June

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Budget Update – Superannuation

Budget Update – Superannuation Superannuation Last night the government announced various positive changes to the superannuation regime in attempt to encourage people to save for

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Due Dates

15/05/2021 – This was the final extended due date for clients where we had managed to get them an extended due date. If you are

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Due Dates

21 April Lodge and pay quarter 3, 2020–21 PAYG instalment activity statement for head companies of consolidated groups. Lodge and pay March 2021 monthly business activity statement. 28

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Jobmaker Hiring Credit

Jobmaker Hiring Credit The JobMaker Hiring Credit is here and is giving businesses and young people impacted by COVID-19 a helping hand. Helping young people

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Important due dates

21 March Lodge and pay February 2021 monthly business activity statement. 31 March Lodge tax return for companies and super funds with total income of

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Managing cash flows

Managing cash flows The importance of managing your Cash flow is the lifeblood of any small business and how it’s managed will shape the success

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Various Accounting Packages

Various Accounting Packages There are many cloud based accounting packages available to help business owners manage the bookkeeping for their businesses. Most packages have similar

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Due Dates

21 February Lodge and pay December 2020 monthly business activity statement for business clients with up to $10 million turnover who report GST monthly and lodge

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What is B2Bpay?

What is B2Bpay? B2Bpay is a secure online payment portal for businesses to pay ALL their bills using their existing credit cards, debit cards or bank

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GST

GST If you run a business or other enterprise and have a GST turnover of $75,000 or more ($150,000 or more for non-profit organisations), or

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GST and Property

GST and Property Goods and services (GST) applies to the supply of certain property types if the supplier (seller or vendor) is registered or required

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GST Adjustments

GST Adjustments You may have to make changes on your current activity statement to increase or decrease the amount of GST you must pay for

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Land Tax

Land Tax Land tax is a state tax, calculated on the freehold land you own in any state of Australia (except the Northern Territory). All

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JobMaker Hiring Credit

JobMaker Hiring Credit Eligible employers can claim the JobMaker Hiring Credit from 1 February 2021 and receive up to $10,400 a year for each new

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JobKeeper extension 2

JobKeeper extension 2 JobKeeper extension 2 has started and runs from 4 January 2021 until 28 March 2021. Entities may be eligible for JobKeeper extension

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Book keeping

Book keeping Recently we are finding more clients are providing there information to us with coding errors, unreconciled accounts and various other issues. As a

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Staff Availability

Staff Availability Please note that Cathie Cains, Sharon Plant and Angela Munoz will all be working part time this year due to all being long

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Important dates

15 January Lodge tax return for taxable large/medium entities as per the latest year lodged (all entities other than individuals), unless required earlier. Payment for

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New income tax rates

New income tax rates We want to remind our clients that as part of the Federal Budget delivered in October 2020 there are significant changes

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Mental Health

Mental Health We are aware of the increasing number of Australians who are experiencing financial stress. At Plant and Associates we consider clients an important

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Xmas Hours & Closure

CHRISTMAS CLOSURE NERANG Please note that our Nerang office will be closed for the Christmas break from Monday 21st December 2020 and will reopen Monday

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PandaDoc Vs SmartVault

PandaDoc Vs SmartVault A lot of client feedback we’ve been receiving over the past few months we’ve noticed that there seems to be some confusion

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SmartVault Technical Issue

SmartVault Technical Issue SmartVault have Identified a recent issue where logging in to the SmartVault Dashboard leads to a blank screen with a blue bar

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Due Dates

1 December Pay income tax for taxable large/medium taxpayers, companies and super funds. Lodgment of return is due 15 January 2021. Pay income tax for the

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