Guide for rental property owners

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has recently released the 2015 Rental Property Owners Guide. This contains a large amount of information relevant to investment owners including what income and expenses you have to declare on your tax return and what deductions you can...
Law Making in Brief: Who Makes our Laws?

Law Making in Brief: Who Makes our Laws?

Most Australians have an opinion about law-making, and leading from this generally have strong opinions on the parliamentary representatives in power when laws are passed. What many Australians don’t understand is the complex system from which our laws stem. In this...

The importance of keeping an updated will

We are acting in a matter where the willmaker: Had made a specific gift of an investment in a particular bank to his sons in a will he created some years before his death; Had been receiving chemotherapy for some time prior to his death; Very close to his passing made...