

NDIS Special Disability Trusts
With the NDIS rollout in Queensland approaching there is a new available form of trust to know about. A special disability trust is focused around assisting family and carers in providing care and accommodation to a person with a severe disability. There are specific responsibilities in completing a trust tax return for the special disability trusts. The special disability trust uses the principal beneficiary's marginal tax rate for the taxation rate of the net income. This t


Tax Treatment of Crypto-Currencies: Bitcoin
Bitcoin is a crypto- currency that roughly sits at 1% of the size of the US economy. The currency does have tax considerations, with a growing application of these to it as it grows in value. Bitcoin can be treated very differently within tax depending upon the form of interaction you have with it. This can vary from being treated as an investment for capital gains taxing or treated as a fringe benefit. We have attempted to provide the most common forms of interaction in this