Roydon Snelgar

French Polynesia

11 June 2019

Capital city:               Pape’ete Currency:                   CFP franc (XPF)       Population:               268,270    Language:                 French     GDP:                         …

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Proprietary Limited Company (Limited by Shares)

4 June 2019

Proprietary limited companies are the most common company structure in Australia and account for 98.5% of all companies. Generally, they are the most appropriate company structure for small businesses. A Proprietary Limited company (also known as a Pty Ltd company), cannot raise capital from the public, and is restricted to a maximum 50 non- employee…

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5 Keys to Establishing a Profitable Tax Planning Division

28 May 2019

Minimum 10% of practice fees Within 12 months, we need to achieve tax planning revenue equivalent to 10% of the practice’s revenue. Achieving this benchmark provides us with the revenue, confidence and motivation to continue growing this new service. Over the last five years many accountants have embraced the ‘one stop shop’ concept and added…

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Upselling

21 May 2019

Upselling can involve marketing more profitable services or products, or just exposing the customer to other options that were not considered. Upselling is more successful when the up sellers know more about the individual customer and understands what the customer values and wants. This information includes the customer's background, budget, preferences, interests, and previous buyer…

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Tax Savings Strategy 224 | Employee Remuneration Trusts

14 May 2019

An Employee Remuneration Trust (ERT) arrangement involves a trust being established to facilitate the provision of payments and/or other benefits to employees of an employer. The trustees provide the benefits at the direction of the employer. This strategy is useful to retain and reward employees that are critical and important to the business’s success. A…

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Database Grows to 250 Tax Strategies

10 May 2019

Our Taxfitness tax strategy database now boasts 250 tax strategies to help your clients structure their affairs to legally reduce their tax liability and make savings.  The database explains how 250 different tax strategies actually work (i.e. what the tax strategy is, when to use the strategy, average tax deductions created by the strategy, and the strategy…

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5 Keys to Establishing a Profitable Tax Planning Division

7 May 2019

Minimum 10% of practice fees. Within 12 months, we need to achieve tax planning revenue equivalent to 10% of the practice’s revenue. Achieving this benchmark provides us with the revenue, confidence and motivation to continue growing this new service. Over the last five years many accountants have embraced the ‘one stop shop’ concept and added financial…

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Partnership of Discretionary Trusts

30 April 2019

  A partnership of discretionary trusts is a partnership where each partner is a discretionary trust. This is a good structure for unrelated parties wanting to operate a business or invest together because: Provides each partner with a fixed interest in the partnership; say 50% each. Allows access to the CGT small business concessions. Provides…

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Fiji Islands

23 April 2019

Capital city:                Suva      Currency:                    Fijian dollar (FJD)    Population:                898,760    Language:                  English and iTaukei   GDP:             …

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Tax Savings Strategy 221 | Bitcoin

16 April 2019

Bitcoin was created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto as the world’s first cryptocurrency and is the biggest. Currently there are 669 cryptocurrencies in the world. Bitcoins are a digital currency so can be used to buy things electronically (and in that sense are similar to conventional currency). However, Bitcoins most important characteristic is that it…

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"You’d be stupid not to try to cut your tax bill and those that don’t are stupid in business"

- Bono: U2