Restructuring – To Roll Or Not To Roll?

Restructuring – To Roll Or Not To Roll?

In the current economic landscape, business owners may be considering a restructure, merger, or demerger to adapt, survive, or enable growth. A change in the structure of a business typically involves either the transfer of ownership interests in the entire business or of specific assets of the business.

Trust Vesting: The Tax Implications

Trust Vesting: The Tax Implications

1. The High Court has described the trust as a “…creature of equity…” subject to the jurisdiction of a court of equity. The essential feature of every trust is that one person is an owner of property, but is bound to use their position as owner for the benefit of another or for the advancement of a purpose.

Super guarantee – Same, same but different

Super guarantee – Same, same but different

This paper has been built on a previous paper on the superannuation guarantee (SG) regime, titled Super Guarantee – no longer the toothless tiger. That paper was designed to take a holistic examination of the SG regime. In this paper, we have built on that approach and added a number of developments, including:

Who’s Running The Show: Keeping Control Of An SMSF

Who’s Running The Show: Keeping Control Of An SMSF

On the setting up of a self managed superannuation fund (SMSF), the starting position is that, all members are required to be individual trustees or directors of a corporate trustee. However, life events such as incapacity and death, may require someone to fill the shoes of the replaced individual.

Super Guarantee – Same, Same But Different

Super Guarantee – Same, Same But Different

This paper has been built on a previous paper on the superannuation guarantee (SG) regime, titled Super Guarantee – no longer the toothless tiger. That paper was designed to take a holistic examination of the SG regime. In this paper, we have built on that approach and added a number of developments, including: