Business tax and payroll updates August 2025
Paid Parental Leave just got better — with more weeks, higher payments and super contributions now included. Plus, new rules on Division 7A and tax amendments could impact your business. Need help navigating the changes? Contact Omnis today.
Superannuation death benefits
What you need to know about receiving a superannuation death benefit after someone has died.
ATO reminder about family trust elections
Family Trust Elections: Key Considerations for Trustees Understand the Benefits, Risks, and Family Group Implications to Avoid Costly Taxes Taxpayers may be considering whether they should make a family trust election (‘FTE’) for a trust, or an interposed entity election (‘IEE’) for a trust or other entity. Making an FTE provides access to certain tax […]
Family trust elections and interposed entity elections
Understanding Family Trust Distribution Tax Key Considerations for Trustees and Entities to Avoid 47% FTDT on Distributions Outside the Family Group. Family trust distribution tax (‘FTDT’) is a special, 47%, tax sometimes payable by a trustee, director or partner. It applies when a trust has made a family trust election (‘FTE’), or an entity has […]
New Paid DV Leave arrives for SMB employees 1 August
Paid domestic violence leave entitlements for small business employees Small businesses across Australia are facing a new challenge as they prepare for the implementation of paid domestic violence leave entitlements starting 1 August 2023. This new policy grants employees up to ten paid days off during a twelve-month period to address family and domestic violence […]
2022/23 October Federal Budget
Federal Budget overview On 25 October 2022, Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down an updated 2022/23 Federal Budget, the first for the Albanese Labor Government. Key measures Certainty for unlegislated taxation and superannuation measures Digital Currency – Clarifying that digital currencies are not taxed as foreign currency Depreciation – Reverse the self-assessment of the effective life […]
Discretionary trusts and corporate beneficiaries
Tax treatment of deemed dividends When a trustee of a trust makes a decision to create an entitlement to income of the trust in favour of a corporate beneficiary (i.e., a privately held company), certain steps need to be taken to ensure that if the entitlement to the distribution remains unpaid (that is, no cash […]
