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This section contains all weekly bulletins, end of financial year updates and budgets information emails sent to date. It is only available to Platinum Members.


Issue: 241 (1/12/2008)
Trust cloning - no more tax breaks?

Trust cloning - no more tax breaks?
Tender Contracts - the hidden risks of tendering

Issue: 240 (24/11/2008)
Self-Managed Super Fund lends artworks to neighbour

Paying no tax when you sell your business
Lending artworks in your Self Managed Super Fund
LawCentral Document Price List

Issue: 239 (17/11/2008)
Many modern Family Trusts fail streaming

Fate and fickle fortune - or has Business Succession come of age?
Many modern Family Trusts fail streaming
CGT Small Business Concessions - a better way

Issue: 238 (10/11/2008)
SMSF Deeds compliant with AUASB Guidance Statement GS 009

NSW new land tax rates - shocks all round
SMSF Pension Pack: What about Super Guarantee?
SMSF Deeds compliant with AUASB Guidance Statement GS 009

Issue: 237 (3/11/2008)
Self Managed Super Deeds - what do the auditors actually audit?

Self Managed Super Deeds - what do the auditors actually audit?
Coins & art in your Super Fund - lease them out?

Issue: 236 (27/10/2008)
Small Business Concession: S-A-S Test

Small Business Concession: S-A-S Test
Glen is a forgiving man - but is he breaking the law?
What they're not telling you about the banks
LawCentral Document Price List

Issue: 235 (20/10/2008)
How to control your Super at death: Will or Superannuation Deed?

How to control your Super at death: Will or Superannuation Deed?
Business Succession Planning - Tim Pepper speaks out

Issue: 234 (14/10/2008)
Modern Family Trusts don't contain schedules

Modern Family Trusts don't contain schedules
Are Self Managed Super Fund updates tax deductible?

Issue: 233 (7/10/2008)
Old Unit Trusts that can borrow money for your SMSF

Residential property getting CGT Small Business Relief
Old Unit Trusts that can borrow money for your SMSF

Issue: 232 (30/09/2008)
Small business concessions with 8 children

Small Business Concessions with 8 Children
Division 7A - new discretion is better (if you get it)

Issue: 231 (23/09/2008)
Superannuation all goes to the oldest son

Superannuation all goes to the oldest son
Wasting money on corporate trustee for Self Managed Super Fund?

Issue: 230 (16/09/2008)
Secretary sells adviser's client list

Secretary sells adviser's client list
Company only for Self Managed Super Funds

Issue: 229 (8/09/2008)
Tax-free child support payments - taxing children #3

Tax-free child support payments - taxing children #3
Disabled Children pay 66% tax - taxing children #2
Gays now suffer the same fate as married couples
LawCentral Document Price List

Issue: 228 (1/09/2008)
Disabled Children pay 66% tax – No. 2

Disabled Children pay 66% tax – No. 2
Challenging a non-English speaking person's Will

Issue: 227 (25/08/2008)
Passive properties may still be "active" - CGT Concessions #1

Passive properties may still be "active" - CGT Concessions #1
Non-lawyers preparing Self Managed Superannuation Deeds
Some clarity on the new WA Duties Act

Issue: 226 (18/08/2008)
Taxation concerns for your children when you die

Taxing children in Wills
LawCentral Document Price List

Issue: 225 (11/08/2008)
Taxing disabled children

Taxing disabled children
Binding Financial Agreements
Who retains copyright in LawCentral documents?

Issue: 224 (4/08/2008)
Farmer lives on his Self Managed Superannuation farm

Farmer lives on his Self Managed Superannuation farm
How do I use these articles for my clients

Issue: 223 (28/07/2008)
Residential property owned instalments warrants

Using a company across state borders
Putting family homes into Super for use after retirement
LawCentral Document Price List

Issue: 222 (23/07/2008)
Hands off your Superannuation - new views on an old topic

Purchased a boat? Expect an ATO audit
Hands off your Superannuation - new views on an old topic
New Employment Contracts under Labour - small business beware
Buy residential property through a Warrant in your Super Fund

Issue: 221 (14/07/2008)
Giving someone the right to let you die

Allocated Pensions - convert to a new pension
The Spam Act – Beware!
Giving someone the right to let you die
Instalment warrants v’s out of date trust deeds
LawCentral Document Price List

Issue: 220 (7/07/2008)
Three ways to fund Instalment Warrants (SMSFs)

Three ways to fund Instalment Warrants (SMSFs)
Counterfeit products – how do I protect myself?
Using service trusts to wash out company losses

Issue: 219 (30/06/2008)
Instalment Warrants – don’t talk to the bank – End of Financial Year # 4

Instalment Warrants – don’t talk to the bank
Div 7A – last chance today
Employment Contracts after Rudd’s new rules
Lower tax rates pass parliament
Western Australian stamp duty abolished
LawCentral Document Price List

Issue: 218 (24/06/2008)
Art, SMSF and your next door neighbour

Art, SMSF and your next door neighbour
Div 7A - Amnesty Period almost over
LawCentral Document Price List

Issue: 217 (16/06/2008)
Div 7A Amnesty - only days left to go

Upgrade to LawCentral complete
Div 7A Amnesty – only days left to go
Auditor demands Super Fund’s Investment Strategy

Issue: 216 (3/06/2008)
Dad’s Superannuation to buy a shop for his daughter

Dad’s Superannuation to buy a shop for his daughter

Issue: 215 (28/05/2008)
Employers pay extra FBT thanks to the Budget - End of Financial Year # 3

Salary Sacrifice and Fringe Benefit Tax

Issue: 214 (19/05/2008)
Reviewing gay Entitlements before the end of Financial Year - End of Financial Year #2

SMSF Deed's v's Labor's Budget
Gays still victimised under Labor's state governments

Issue: 213 (12/05/2008)
Update your Family Trust Deed by 30 June - End of Financial Year #1

Is the Financial Planner liable?
Eleven Issues to consider in reviewing Family Trust Deeds

Issue: 212 (29/04/2008)
Your secretary walks with your client list?

How to wind up a Trust
Your secretary walks with your client list?

Deloitte Issue: 12 (29/04/2008)
Salary sacrifice - reap or risk?

Salary sacrifice - reap or risk?

Issue: 211 (22/04/2008)
Based wife loses her Pre-Nuptial Agreement

Employer lost $200m invention
Bashed wife loses her Pre-Nuptial Agreement

Issue: 210 (14/04/2008)
Transfer Property into SMSF for no stamp duty

CGT Concessions when you sell your business
Transfer Property into SMSF for no stamp duty

Issue: 209 (7/04/2008)
Part II: Splitting a Family Trust without stamp duty

Div 7A - yet more advice from the ATO
Part II: Splitting a Family Trust without stamp duty
What the ATO tells us about Super Instalment Warrants

Issue: 208 (1/04/2008)
Splitting a Family Trust in two

Self Managed Super Funds holding trust assets
Splitting a Family Trust in two

Issue: 207 (25/03/2008)
Are people living in sin victimised?

Are people living in sin victimised?
Gearing your Super the old fashioned way - Trevisan Trusts
Super as your child's piggy bank - sole purpose test?

Issue: 206 (14/03/2008)
Tax on dead people’s Superannuation – A Will won’t fix it

Paying tax on dad's home - a disgrace
Your Will can't control your Superannuation - so stop trying

Issue: 205 (10/03/2008)
New rules for Division 7A Loan Agreements

New rules for Division 7A Loan Agreements
Winding up the old RBL pensions

Issue: 204 (4/03/2008)
Doing a Will on YouTube

Restaurant into Superannuation with no stamp duty
Do a Will on YouTube
Integrated Legal Holdings releases 6 monthly report

Issue: 203 (25/02/2008)
Paying out Annual Leave to an Accountant

Paying out Annual Leave to an Accountant
Divorce, videos and your Will

Issue: 202 (18/02/2008)
Family Farm - don't leave it to the fairies

Family Farm - don't leave it to the fairies
Fix up old loans from your company – until 30 June 2008

Issue: 201 (11/02/2008)
Grieving widow angry that husband worked to death

Grieving widow angry that husband worked to death
Nine changes to Super that rocked our world

Issue: 200 (5/02/2008)
Key Person Insurance: Are you insuring the right guy?

Key Person Insurance: Are you insuring the right guy?
How to escape a decaying company
One property bad, two properties better

Issue: 199 (29/01/2008)
Hybrid Trusts - Where are we now? Where are we going?

Financial planner payments: “management fees” or loans?
An idle company can be expensive
Hybrid Trusts - Where are we now? Where are we going?
Risk versus Return - Residential Property as a managed investment

Issue: 198 (22/01/2008)
Wife goes down with company - husband skips away

How do I kill off an old company?
Wife goes down with company - husband skips away
Buying law firms

Issue: 197 (14/01/2008)
Creating a Will in your Super Fund?

What is needed in a Division 7A Loan Agreement?
Creating a Will in your Super Fund?

Issue: 196 (8/01/2008)
Hot tips v’s Super Fund’s Investment Strategy

Hot tips v’s Super Fund’s Investment Strategy
Am I giving legal advice when I use www.LawCentral.com.au?

Issue: 196 (7/01/2008)
Hot tips v’s Super Fund’s Investment Strategy

Hot tips v’s Super Fund’s Investment Strategy
Am I giving legal advice when I use www.LawCentral.com.au?

Issue: 195 (18/12/2007)
Gearing residential property into your Super Fund

New FBT exemptions for your Christmas Party
New tax rates under Labor
Gearing residential property into your Super Fund

Issue: 194 (10/12/2007)
Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) abolished by Easter

Daughter joins your Self Managed Super Fund
Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) abolished by Easter

Issue: 193 (3/12/2007)
Setting up a pension in a Super Fund

Personal Services Income Rules: There will be a test …
Setting up a pension in a Super Fund – takes 12 minutes

Issue: 192 (26/11/2007)
Charities and WorkChoices - new rules

Start Self Managed Pension without knowing capital amount?
Most Charities’ Employment Contracts don’t work

Issue: 191 (20/11/2007)
Brockie’s lasting legacy …

Many small contractors (including accountants) to be audited
Brockie’s lasting legacy …

Issue: 190 (12/11/2007)
Land Tax – Mum & Dad got 2 exempt properties

Land Tax – Mum & Dad got 2 exempt properties
Middle Class may now get Centrelink
Term Allocated Pensions are only a distant memory

Issue: 189 (7/11/2007)
November Net Nugget - $110 off SMSF Deeds

Self Managed Fund Investment Strategies post 1 July 2007
Independent Contractors Agreement – or are you an “employee”?
I paid too much Super - now what?

Issue: 188 (29/10/2007)
What happens when you pay your employees’ Superannuation one day late?

Moving to a Pension? You need a Product Disclosure Statement
Paying your employees’ Superannuation twice – by mistake

Issue: 187 (23/10/2007)
Pursuing the great Australian dream through your Super Fund

Pursuing the great Australian dream through your Super Fund
Legal Documents with a Click of the Mouse

Issue: 186 (15/10/2007)
Who owns what your employees create?

Dealers pay money to their Financial Planners for development?
Who owns what your employees create?
Attractive options for all

Issue: 185 (9/10/2007)
Non-lapsing binding nominations and marriage

Family Trusts can now pay Superannuation to its directors
Division 7A update in 4 minutes
Non-lapsing binding nominations and marriage

Issue: 184 (27/09/2007)
Leave farm to brother or wife?

Leave farm to brother or wife?
Your Will is useless when it comes to your Superannuation

Issue: 183 (25/09/2007)
Parent’s farm lost to their child’s defacto? - New defacto laws

Start a Superannuation pension without final accounts
Parent’s farm lost to their child’s defacto? - New defacto laws
Binding Nominations Vs Non-Lapsing Binding Nominations

Issue: 182 (18/09/2007)
Why can't I say where my Superannuation goes when I die?

Why can't I say where my Superannuation goes when I die?
Auditor demands updated Product Disclosure Statement

Issue: 181 (7/09/2007)
ATO Compliance Program: high net worth clients under attack

ATO Compliance Program: high net worth clients under attack
Private company loan relief

Issue: 180 (4/09/2007)
Don’t get sued - guide to tax advisers and accountants

Auditing a self managed super fund - ATO's speaks
Don’t get sued - guide to tax advisers and accountants
Allocated Pension’s new label: “Account-Based Pensions”

Issue: 179 (27/08/2007)
Receive a pension from your Super Fund while you work

Receive a pension from your Super Fund while you work
Avoiding GST on Family Trust transfers
Wrong Trustee? Breach of Self Managed Super Fund

Issue: 178 (20/08/2007)
Small Business CGT concession: $2m turn-over (2nd article)

SMSF Pension Kits in 9 minutes
Product Disclosure Statement for every Super Fund – surely you jest?
Small Business CGT concession: $2m turnover (2nd article)
Land holding trust gets CGT concessions with $2m turn over?

Issue: 177 (13/08/2007)
Auditor demands updated Product Disclosure Statement

SMSFs – Auditor demands updated Product Disclosure Statement
Employer forced to pay Employees to save marriage - WorkChoices not used
Platinum Membership Bonus

Issue: 176 (6/08/2007)
Superannuation tricks for a 66-year old

Platinum Membership Bonus
Company lends you money – new dangers in Div 7A
Superannuation tricks for a 66-year old

Issue: 175 (30/07/2007)
Rich people get CGT Small Business Concession

Small business CGT relief: $6m assets or $2m turnover tests?
Super Fund sacks its Company as Trustee

Issue: 174 (23/07/2007)
When Dad falls in love with the cleaner

Changing Members in a Self Managed Super Fund
Dad falls in love with cleaner
Trusted ways to reduce tax

Issue: 173 (16/07/2007)
Find romance and lose your family home tax free status?

Gift $1.7m commercial property into your Self Managed Super Fund
Find romance and lose your family home tax free status?

Issue: 172 (10/07/2007)
Advisers & Accountants: don’t witness Trustee Declarations

Advisers & Accountants: don’t witness Trustee Declarations

Issue: 171 (3/07/2007)
Auditors at risk with out-of-date Self Managed Superannuation Fund Deeds

Put $1.8m into your Super
Auditors searching for out-of-date Self Managed Superannuation Deeds

Issue: 170 (25/06/2007)
End of Financial Year: 6 - The 4 most asked questions for the end of financial year

Trustee of my Family Trust is not up-to-date - can it wait?
What Superannuation Concession Strategies are there before 1 July?
Is my Super Fund Investment Strategy "1 July 2007" compliant?
Can I document my Service Trust relationship next year?

Issue: 169 (18/06/2007)
End of Financial Year: 5 - Things to do before the end of the financial year

What I learnt from attending 17 ATO audits
Mortgage Watchdog
Tax free positions: rental property concessions

Issue: 168 (12/06/2007)
End of Financial Year: 4 - Do your Div 7A before the end of financial year

Bank errors in family mortgages
Avoiding Div 7A through Limited Partnerships
Accountants, Advisers and Lawyers ignore s260 Tax Office notices?

Issue: 167 (5/06/2007)
End of Financial Year: 3 - Service Trusts - ATO amnesty ended last week

Service Trusts - ATO takes gloves off
Superannuation - new rules for bosses paying Termination Payments

Issue: 166 (28/05/2007)
End of Financial Year: 2 ILH listing on ASX - extra allocation for LawCentral members

ILH listing on ASX - extra allocation for LawCentral members
Transferring property to your Super Fund

Issue: 165 (21/05/2007)
End of Financial Year 1 - SMSF Deeds: Is yours now compliant with the new changes

SMSF Deeds: Compliance is not complicated
Q & A: Property into Super Fund for no stamp duty

Issue: 164 (14/05/2007)
Property into Super Fund for no stamp duty

Are your Company Rules up-to-date?
Property into Super Fund for no stamp duty

Issue: 163 (7/05/2007)
Director even gets caught for occupational health

Director even gets caught for occupational health
Can a SMSF invest in Contracts for Difference (CFDs)?

Issue: 162 (30/04/2007)
New Disclosure for Self Managed Super Funds

Hybrid Trust - ATO's latest view
New Trustee disclosure requirements for Self Managed Super Funds

Issue: 161 (24/04/2007)
Super Fund pays for European research trip

Super Fund pays for European research trip
Single director companies – benefits beyond asset protection

Issue: 160 (16/04/2007)
Sperm donor kids – can they get their hands on your estate?

New small business CGT concessions backdated to 1 July 2006
Sperm donor kids – can they get their hands on your estate?

Issue: 159 (9/04/2007)
Mum and dad directors stuff up and sue their accountants

Mum and dad directors stuff up and sue their accountants
Dad wants to hand Family Trust to daughter
Residential Real Estate – Carrion or Caviar?
Tax effective leasing

Issue: 158 (2/04/2007)
Wife steals husband's super - is Super Fund liable?

Crusty Old Family Trust Deed sparkles again
Wife steals husband’s Super

Issue: 157 (26/03/2007)
Use Super Fund to pay off your home

Undeducted contributions
Commercial Property
Residential Property
Up-to-date SMSF Deed
Borrowing from SMSF Deed
Selling to your SMSF

Issue: 156 (19/03/2007)
Apathy - the greatest cause of the tired Partnership structure

The widow, business partner and dead husband
Apathy - the greatest cause of the Partnership structure
Dump Property in the name of Super, but is the timing right?

Issue: 155 (12/03/2007)
Employees may be liable not you – update your Employment Contracts

No FBT on shares for your staff
Employees may be liable not you

Issue: 154 (6/03/2007)
Anna Nicole didn't do her Will at Brett Davies Lawyers

The modern-day fairy tale: Anna Nicole and her will
Vulture Fund for Residential Property
Joint Tenancy – stop doing it
CGT concessions for businesses

Issue: 153 (26/02/2007)
Parents v's dead son's lover - the Superannuation prize-fight

Not all
Unlisted property trusts great for anti-cyclical
Parents v’s dead son’s lover – Superannuation fight

Issue: 152 (20/02/2007)
Asset Protection in Family Trusts after Westpoint

Asset Protection in Family Trusts after WestPoint
Exchange Traded Options in your Self Managed Super Fund
Sydney to close down for lack of water?
Is my SMSF Investment Strategy really that important?
Trust cloning works – But!

Issue: 151 (12/02/2007)
Selling a house – talk with your Adviser first

Brett Davies' angry list of ATO atrocities
Selling a house – talk with your Adviser first
Five Acts of Parliament to get one Employment Contract
Another SMSF Pitfall avoided

Issue: 150 (6/02/2007)
Super Funds can't lend money to family

Use a Trust to secretly buy your neighbours house
Residential property reduces risk in investment portfolio
Super Funds can’t lend money to family
Super Investment Strategy deal with Capital secure and high growth profiles?

Issue: 149 (29/01/2007)
Work Choices gives unfair advantage to only some Employers

Work Choices gives unfair advantage to only some Employers
Self Managed Super Fund lends money to brother
Residential Property - but where is the diversity?

Issue: 148 (22/01/2007)
Your Super Fund buys a painting but you can’t look at it

“Sophisticated investor” - get into secret investments
Can I look at a painting that my Super Fund owns? – “ancillary purpose”
Mum & Dad – should they buy residential property alone?

Issue: 147 (15/01/2007)
Invest in residential property through your adviser

Invest in residential property through your adviser
The Auditor of Super Funds is on your side
Division 7A – Government tries to help the nightmare along

Horwarth Issue 2006: 14 (15/01/2007)
Housing Marriages

Housing Marriages

Issue: 146 (8/01/2007)
What is "arms length" in a SMSF

Home garages not the place to run your business from
The bible has a few words about tax collectors
What is “arms length” in a SMSF?

Issue: 145 (18/12/2006)
Show the ATO Respect

Service Trusts - what is all the fuss about?
SMSF Investments - many are not compliant
Platinum Membership Bonus - Extension

Horwarth Issue 2006: 13 (18/12/2006)
Shareholder Warning?

Shareholder Warning?

Issue: 144 (11/12/2006)
Only people with no money should be directors

Court says: it is all about the trust deed
Buying a business - what questions to ask?
Only people with no money should be directors

Issue: 143 (4/12/2006)
Near 100% tax rate on loans from your company

Did your company “lend” you money?
So you don’t need help on your Super anymore?
A Current Affair - Mortgage Watchdog

Horwarth Issue 2006: 12 (4/12/2006)
Investments: Property or Shares?

Investments: Property or Shares?

Issue: 142 (24/11/2006)
Banks get windfall from interest rate hike?

Banks get windfall from interest rate hike?
Employment Contracts are designed with one purpose - to protect the Employer
Making someone else pay your CGT - Rollovers
Can Self Managed Super funds buy instalment warrants? The debate is over

Horwarth Issue 2006: 11 (20/11/2006)
Home Tax Tricks

Home Tax Tricks

Issue: 141 (20/11/2006)
More directors go down with the company

Platinum Membership Bonus
Asset Protection with no stamp duty or CGT
More directors go down with the company
Catholics and big families victimised by the Tax Act

Issue: 140 (13/11/2006)
Look and smell like an employee - but still a contractor?

Two best times to tax plan: death and divorce. Let’s look at divorce
Look and smell like an employee – but still a contractor?
Insolvent Subsidiaries Warning

Horwarth Issue 2006: 10 (6/11/2006)
Insolvent Subsidiaries Warning

Insolvent Subsidiaries Warning

Issue: 139 (6/11/2006)
Inheriting Capital Gains Tax with mum’s home

Bankrupting people that owe you money - the final satisfaction
Inheriting Capital Gains Tax with mum’s home
Continually updated Self-Managed Superannuation Deeds

Issue: 138 (30/10/2006)
Do your clients lend money within their family?

Do your clients lend money within their family?
Asset Protection

Issue: 137 (23/10/2006)
Reducing Capital Gains Tax down to 3%

Valuing assets for the $5m CGT small business test
Super Fund Investment Strategy "0 - 100%" for everything - not OK

Issue: 136 (10/10/2006)
Child Maintenance Trusts - when dad has to pay through the nose

Child Maintenance Trusts - when dad has to pay through the nose
Death wish - superannuation trustee speaks out: "No Investment Strategy for me"

Horwarth Issue 2006: 9 (9/10/2006)
Doing Your Homework

Doing Your Homework

Issue: 135 (2/10/2006)
Self-Managed Superannuation Funds enter the 21st Century

Self-Managed Superannuation Funds enter the 21st Century
Special Disability Trusts - not just an Estate Planning aid
Australian Financial Planning Handbook

Issue: 134 (25/09/2006)
Negative gearing - the adviser's dilemma

Positive gearing vs. Negative gearing – the adviser’s dilemma
“Working Pensions” for old people – a young person conspiracy?
Derivatives in a Self Managed Super Fund?

Horwarth Issue 2006: 7 (25/09/2006)
Welcome Foreign Born Talent

Welcoming Foreign Born Talent

Issue: 133 (18/09/2006)
Tax Advice and In-house legal advice is "privileged"

Tax Advice and In-house legal advice is "privileged"
Disability Trusts: Yes, they do exist
SMSFs: Assets acquired from related party on marriage breakdown
Legal Documents with a Click of the Mouse

Horwarth Issue 2006: 6 (11/09/2006)
Superannuation Opportunity – Urgent Action Needed!

Superannuation Opportunity – Urgent Action Needed!

Issue: 132 (11/09/2006)
Issue 132: Gays get no CGT relief when they split up

Questions about the new Super changes? Can Costello make it simpler?
Hybrid Trusts – 3 common questions
Gays get no CGT relief when they split up

Issue: 131 (4/09/2006)
Marry someone old to get your Super early

WorkChoices: Can trusts get the benefits as well as companies?
Marry someone old and poor to get your Super early

Issue: 130 (28/08/2006)
Child Maintenance Trust – your wife doesn’t need to know

The value of a Hybrid Trust
Child Maintenance Trust – your wife doesn’t need to know

Issue: 129 (23/08/2006)
Don’t die until you spend all your Superannuation

Contracts for Difference (CFD) in a Self Managed Super Fund
Don’t die until you spend all your Superannuation
WorkChoices: how do Employees get this protection?

Issue: 128 (14/08/2006)
One-man business - can he share his profit with his company?

One-man business - can he share his profit with his company?
Corporate Trustee only pays $40 a year ASIC fees
Risk Management Statements in Self Managed Super
Documents to help the Accountant’s and Adviser’s clients

Horwarth Issue 2006: 4 (14/08/2006)
Financing Interest Deductions

Financing Interest Deductions

Issue: 127 (7/08/2006)
Family Trusts subject to bankruptcy

Risk Management in Self Managed Super Funds - Derivatives
After 500 years - Family Trusts subject to bankruptcy
Winter Fuzzies promotion
Legal Documents with a Click of the Mouse

Horwath Issue 2006: 3 (7/08/2006)
A Home Advantage

Making your home a tax advantage

Issue: 126 (31/07/2006)
Self-Managed Super Fund buys Ferrari and artwork

Guardianship Orders are forced onto people with no Power of Attorney
Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) buys Ferrari and art work
Do all new companies get automatic Division 7A Loan Agreement?

Issue: 125 (24/07/2006)
Can unborn children be Executors in your Will?

Can unborn children be Executors in your Will?
What happens when Asset Protection turns into Bankruptcy? The untold story.
The Grim Reaper and your business: Part II

Issue: 124 (17/07/2006)
Family Home in your wife's name at risk

Business succession planning v's key person insurance
Family Home in your wife's name at risk
Removing your estranged brother as Executor

Horwath Issue 2006: 2 (17/07/2006)
Tax Free Sales

Tax Free Sales

Issue: 123 (11/07/2006)
Family Trust Splitting - can't change Appointor and God

Family Trust Splitting - can't change Appointor and God
Director goes down with the company – but the company remains solvent

Horwath Issue 2006: 13 (3/07/2006)
Property Trust tax sweetened

Property Trust tax sweetened

Issue: 122 (3/07/2006)
Free Public Trustee Wills can be very expensive

Free Public Trustee Wills can be very expensive
Employment Contract must be robust to last the distance
Is Hybrid Trust better than a Family Trust?
Business bank accounts, are they in danger?

Issue: 121 (29/06/2006)
End of Financial Year: 13 - Family trusts now under threat of receivership (Final Edition)

Family Trusts now under threat of receivership
End of Year

Issue: 120 (26/06/2006)
End of Financial Year: 12 - End of Year Planning - Assets Trapped in Deregistered Companies

Recovering Company Assets from ASIC After Deregistration
Avoiding Workers Compensation by Paying Dividends - Be Careful
Family Home’s Back Shed is Tax Deductible
Platinum Membership - Rate Rise

Horwath Issue 2006: 12 (26/06/2006)
Save Super Now

Save Super Now

Issue: 119 (19/06/2006)
End of Financial Year: 11 - hybrid trusts - 3 brilliant questions

Platinum Membership - Rate Rise
Splitting Super Contribution is Important
Can a Partner also Receive a Salary?

Issue: 118 (12/06/2006)
End of Financial Year: 10 - Five Most Overlooked Tax Planning Tips

Year End Planning Tips
Platinum Membership - Rate Rise
Are Trusts Always Better Than a Company?
Land Tax for Victorian Trusts – Avoid the surcharge
Relieving Shareholder Pain

Issue: 117 (5/06/2006)
End of Financial Year: 9 - Family trust distributions on ATO's radar

Family Trust Distributions minutes - Don't try these at home
Business bank accounts, are they in danger?
Platinum Membership - Rate Rise
Mum and Dad set up a business in the Family Trust
Do dead people pay tax at lower rates?

Horwath Issue 2006: 11 (5/06/2006)
Relieving Shareholder Pain

Relieving Shareholder Pain

Issue: 116 (29/05/2006)
End of Financial Year 8 - Children getting divorced - How can your family trust help?

Children getting divorced - how can your Family Trust help?
NAB's $80 million blunder - can it happen to me?
Power of Attorney for a company - gives you freedom to leave the country
Option Trading - tax confusion?
Hybrid Discretionary Trust and Tax Advice
Independent Contractor v's Employee: The new rules under Work Choices

Issue: 115 (22/05/2006)
End of Financial Year 7 - Hybrid Trust Vs Family Trust - Which is Best?

"Payable on Death" bank accounts
When do Undeducted Contributions drop to $150,000?
Loans from your company - why did the rules have to change?
Hybrid Discretionary Trust
Contribution splitting in your Super - still worth doing?
Clawing back excess interest charges from the banks

Issue: 114 (15/05/2006)
End of Financial Year 6 - Div 7A - when do I have to pay the capital back?

Div 7A – when do I have to pay the capital back?
Easter MovieMania Winners (Week 4)
The reduction of the tax rate won’t help small business owners much
Predictions for Superannuation post Budget

Issue: 113 (8/05/2006)
End of Financial Year Planning 5 – Super Splitting - Every SMSF before December 2005 needs updating

Super Splitting - Every SMSF before December 2005 needs updating
Easter MovieMania Winners (Week 3)
Australian Spam Laws - they just got the first guy
End of Financial year - Splitting trusts

Issue: 112 (26/04/2006)
End of Financial Year Planning 4 – Service Trusts - we told you the ATO had no idea

Hybrid Trust - saved the doctor losing his home
Easter MovieMania Winners (Week 2)
Purchased a Porsche 21 years ago? Lied on your tax return? Better see your accountant
5 Winning Shares
Service Trusts - we told you the ATO had no idea

Horwath Issue 2006: 08 (24/04/2006)
5 Winning Shares

Five Winning Shares

Issue: 111 (18/04/2006)
End of Financial Year Planning 3 – How to get rid of 4,000 Employment Awards?

Work Choices lets the employers reap their rewards (4,000 awards now gone)
Easter MovieMania Winners
Employer Survival Kit
End of financial year – have your say
Farm stamp duty exemption – not as automatic as some think

Horwath Issue 2006: 07 (10/04/2006)
Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Issue: 110 (7/04/2006)
End of Financial Year Planning 2 – Superannuation Contributions Splitting

Superannuation Contributions Splitting
Testamentary Trusts may need updating to get franking credits
Hybrid Trusts
Easter Moviemania

Issue: 109 (3/04/2006)
End of Financial Year Planning 1 - Employment Contracts

Are your Employment Contracts Work Choice ready?
Accountant gave wrong advice – but still not liable
Acknowledgement of Trust for Self Managed Super Fund assets
Tax Free Sale?

Horwath Issue 2006: 06 (3/04/2006)
Tax Free Sale?

Tax Free Sale?

Issue: 108 (27/03/2006)
Stamp Duty on the family home - how to get out of it

SMSF Investment Strategies - don't let them go out of date
Pre Div 7A loans - the ATO secret agenda
Stamp Duty on the family home - how to get out of it
Tax Free Dividends?

Horwath Issue 2006: 05 (27/03/2006)
Tax Free Dividend

Tax Free Dividend?

Issue: 107 (20/03/2006)
Self Managed Super Fund falls off the rails – what to do?

Self Managed Super Fund 2006 Investment Strategy v's the ATO
Your comments on what the ATO says about how much you need in your SMSF
Can a Self Managed Super Fund own a nightclub?
Self Managed Super Fund falls off the rails - what to do?

Issue: 106 (13/03/2006)
Sleep with your wife and lose your house - the new bankruptcy laws

Override Joint Tenancy just before you die – how the defacto can miss out
Cost of running a Self Managed Super Fund – according to the ATO
Don’t sleep with your wife – how to avoid the new Bankruptcy Laws

Issue: 105 (6/03/2006)
Has the ATO gone soft on Pre Division 7 loans?

Pre-Div 7A Loan Agreements get an extended life – but heed the ATO’s comments
Build a company that works throughout Australia
When do you need a business name?

Horwath Issue 2006: 04 (6/03/2006)
Deemed Dividend Danger

Deemed Dividend Danger

Issue: 104 (27/02/2006)
Superannuation and death – a tax by any other name smells as sour

Superannuation and death – a tax by any other name smells as sour
Setting up a charity – but which structure?
Commercial Lease in 13 minutes
Trusts & Victorian Land Tax
Vale Ray De Lucia

Issue: 103 (20/02/2006)
Self Managed Super Fund and no lease agreement

Leasing business property from your Self Managed Superfund
Employer paid super by mistake. Welcome to the arrogant super fund
Update Self Managed Super Fund Deed
Your adult children paying 31.5% tax on your Super when you die

Horwath Issue 2006: 03 (20/02/2006)
Golden Investment

Golden Investment

Issue: 102 (13/02/2006)
Accountants secret weapon: CGT Register

Alias names in Family Trusts
Accountants' secret weapon: CGT Register
I now leave the tax man 30% of my Super
Stamping Managed Investment Schemes
The Tax Justice Association
Home Sweet Home
Angelina and Brett have a baby boy

Horwath Issue 2006: 02 (13/02/2006)
Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

Issue: 101 (6/02/2006)
Family trust splits and clone benefits

Who can be partners?
Reserve benefits in Super Funds
SMSF strategies revealed
Time to trust yourself
Law firm receptionist opportunity

Issue: 100 (30/01/2006)
Assets in danger - Unit trust holders

Celebrating our 100th Bulletin!
Assets in danger - Unit trust holders
The ex-wife benefits from your trust?
Celebrate! Tax-free death benefits for all
WA CDs now abolished
The Plain Truth - Issue 15

McCourts Issue 15 (30/01/2006)
The Plain Truth - Issue 15

Super and your will
Too old to be a Virgin
When you sell be careful what you say

Issue: 99 (23/01/2006)
Asset declaration protects trustees

Asset declaration protects trustees
Unleash equity for investment
Updating permissive SMSF deeds
Celebrate! Tax-free death benefits for all
Challenges await right candidate

Issue: 98 (16/01/2006)
NAB overcharges, again

Ignore Div 7a at your own risk
NAB overcharges, again
Super tax savings of 31.5%
Family trust - to get or not to get

Issue: 97 (9/01/2006)
Keep your job take your super

Are trusts taxed as companies?
Planners subdue portfolio risk
Keep your job take your super
Updating SMSFs made easy
Seeking Sydney CEO & Finance Manager

Issue: 96 (19/12/2005)
Auditors and written SMSF lease explained

Wishing you joy, peace and happiness
Claiming tax deductions for gifts
Auditors and written SMSF lease explained
Salary Sacrifice often doesn't work
Updating SMSF Deeds

Issue: 95 (12/12/2005)
Written SMSF lease - Auditors stand firm

Pocketing small business rollovers
Compulsory ownership - SMSF trustees
Written SMSF lease - Auditors stand firm
Secure deductions

Horwath Issue 2005: 11 (12/12/2005)
Secure deductions

Secure deductions

Issue: 94 (5/12/2005)
SMSF Commercial Lease - impress ATO

SMSF Commercial Lease - impress ATO
CGT strategy - trust split costs
Company director can be secretary
Indemnity - directors' protective shield

Issue: 93 (28/11/2005)
Sweet inheritance turns sour

Leave loading mandatory for all?
Sweet inheritance turns sour
APRA approved funds - the afterbirth
The Plain Truth - Issue 9

McCourts Issue: 09 (28/11/2005)
The Plain Truth - Issue 9

Refshauge's Budget
Super Choice
Financial Planning Association
Aussie Home Loans held in check

Issue: 92 (21/11/2005)
The director drowns while his company floats

Unlocking SMSF lending requires 2 keys
The director drowns while his company floats
The Plain Truth - Issue 14
The LawCentral Promise

McCourts Issue: 14 (21/11/2005)
The Plain Truth - Issue 14

Cash Rates
Renting the Holiday Home
Workplace Surveillance

Issue: 91 (14/11/2005)
New superannuation strategies - for everyone

POA fallacy - starring stamping and registration
New superannuation strategies
The Plain Truth - Issue 10

McCourts Issue 10 (14/11/2005)
The Plain Truth

Do you sign cheques?
Protecting your legal advice
Update on Spam Act
Winding up notices

Issue: 90 (7/11/2005)
The heart reigns over the court

The heart reigns over the court
Legislation favours workers over the boss
Less is more
Smart Sale

Horwath Issue 2005: 09 (7/11/2005)
Smart Sale

Smart Sale

Issue: 89 (31/10/2005)
What profit is there in starting your own charity?

Enjoy your Superannuation without retiring?
Employers pay while employees play
Accurate property valuation frees hidden equity
What profit is there in starting your own charity?
POA advice - lawyers, neighbours or mechanics?

Issue: 88 (24/10/2005)
Prenups rescue Family Trust Tussles after Divorce

Australian Workplace Agreements Protect your Employee Not You
Family Trust Tussles after Divorce - Prenups to the Rescue
The Plain Truth - Issue 13

McCourts Issue: 13 (24/10/2005)
The Plain Truth - Issue 13

Trust to Trust Transfers and CGT
Kiwi Property Tax
Where are the Entrepreneurs?

Issue: 87 (17/10/2005)
Can we now have the ingredients to Coca Cola?

Buying a house with a friend may end the friendship
Product Disclosure Statements for Self Managed Super Funds - surely you jest
When do confidentiality agreements end? Can we now have the ingredients to Coca-Cola?
CGT trap for parents buying a house for children - Bare Trusts revisited
Dual Pension Strategy

Horwath Issue 2005: 08 (17/10/2005)
Dual Pension Strategy

Dual Pension Strategy

Issue: 86 (10/10/2005)
The Accountant, client and mistress: dying with Superannuation

Partnership Agreements - Do I get a salary, equity or both?
CGT trap when buying a house for your child
The Accountant, client and mistress: dying with Superannuation
A Smart Solution for Smart People
Seeking to employ a CEO & Finance Manager
The Plain Truth

McCourts Issue: 11 (10/10/2005)
The Plain Truth

Falling Off Your Chair
Employment Promises
Read it before you sign it!

Issue: 85 (3/10/2005)
Proving them wrong - Planners fight back after CHOICE report slam

All I want is some certainty as to where my Superannuation goes when I die
Pooled Development Funds - a tax rate of 15%
Proving them wrong - Planners fight back after CHOICE report slam
Winning Losses
CEO and Finance Officer applications close this Friday

Horwath Issue 2005: 07 (3/10/2005)
Winning Losses

Winning Losses

Issue: 84 (26/09/2005)
When Mum and Dad lend money to their Children

Streaming in Family Trusts - What about discounted Capital Gains?
You cannot assign copyright without a written agreement
Financial Planning for all Australians
How do you protect your Mum & Dad when they lend you money?
Seeking to employ a CEO & Finance Manager
The Plain Truth

McCourts Issue: 12 (26/09/2005)
The Plain Truth

Jet Ski Responsibility
Unsociable Conduct
Solicitors Wearing the Costs

Issue: 83 (19/09/2005)
Farmers Family Trust doesn't work for a factory

Farmers Family Trust doesn't work for a factory
I just want to leave some assets to a charity when I die
Binding Nominations for your Superannuation
Offer of Employment: for CEO & Finance Officer

Horwath Issue 2005: 06 (19/09/2005)
Joint Home Loan Savings

Joint Home Loan Savings

Issue: 82 (12/09/2005)
Where do I stamp my Family Trust? Does it matter?

Where do I stamp my Family Trust? Does it matter?
Family homes trapped in trusts and companies
Legacy issues in a Self Managed Super Fund Deed rewrite
What happens to a Power of Attorney when you die?

Issue: 81 (5/09/2005)
Brother attacking brother over residential home purchased

Family and Property - what happens when you fall out?
Accountants and Advisers give advice on administering a deceased estate?
Old Company Constitution - Update or Replace?
How did the Engineer running his Self Managed Fund go?
Dealer Groups get help on preparing Statement of Advice
New Release - Financial Calculators

Issue: 80 (29/08/2005)
Engineer thinks he can run a Super Fund all by himself

Partnerships of Family Trusts
Engineer thinks he can run a Super Fund all by himself

Horwath Issue 2005: 05 (29/08/2005)
Take a Tax Holiday

Take a Tax Holiday

Issue: 79 (22/08/2005)
Hidden Treasure: SMSF Tax Breaks and Estate Planning

Tax returns: Impossible to take ‘reasonable care’?
Changing beneficiaries in a Family Trust without a Resettlement?
Hidden Treasure: SMSF Tax Breaks and Estate Planning
Planning your moves to save tax

Horwath Issue 2005: 04 (19/08/2005)
Planning your moves

Planning your moves

Issue: 78 (15/08/2005)
Like diamonds, Div 7A Loans and Family Trust beneficiaries are forever - so choose wisely

ATO rejects Self Managed Super Fund because of old forms
Debt/Equity - confusion reigns
Like diamonds, Div 7A mistakes are forever
Family Trusts - can't change the beneficiaries later on
Business bank accounts, are they in danger?

Issue: 77 (8/08/2005)
NAB's $62 million blunder - can it happen to me?

Service Trusts, Negligence and Accountants
Your Software License Fee cannot protect you.
International Tax: Hong Kong takes another look at trust structures
Woolworths saved by Confidentiality Agreements - are you also protected?
NAB's $62 million blunder - can it happen to me?
When is Trust interest deductible?

Horwath Issue 2005: 03 (8/08/2005)
When is Trust interest deductible?

How is Trust interest deductible?

Issue: 76 (1/08/2005)
Land Tax and Trusts

"Mum & Dad Pty Limited" before, "Dad Pty Limited" after
Corporate Trus