Blog by Ray Trevisan

Company expenses getting mixed up with your personal expenses, sound familiar? The traps of doing so and the penalties for not correctly accounting is one of the long standing matters the Tax Office has issue with company directors, in particular Mum & Dad operators and tradies.

Frank Drenth, tax expert has a deep understanding of Family Trusts, and given there are close to 800k of them handling almost $3T, this is worth finding out more. Listen in to find out the latest in the ATO rulings and what to be looking out for.

Simon Madden now travels the country talking to people about being better humans. Be the best you can, and in so we discuss what it means to be a man, particularly when looking at societal expectations surrounding money management and being the "bread winner".

Estate planning, what is it and where do I start? Jonathan Elcombe joins us to work through the basics of wills, powers of attorney, guardianship and more, to leave us with a solid starting point to commence our journey in ensuring we don't leave our loved ones stranded.

We've moved through the pandemic, and last year, the ATO provide a simple way to calculate our tax deductions for our work from home costs. We talk with Neville Birthisel at IFPA (www.ifpa.com.au) as to what the ATO is expecting this year from all of us that work from home