A quick summary of the Budget’s Small Business Top 5, (more detail to follow in future posts)
- Immediate Asset Write Off – Temporary full expensing of Capital assets continues until 30/6/2023. (for more detail see link below)
- Buy New assets (and 2nd hand if your T/O <$50M) between now and 30 June 2023 will deliver you an upfront tax deduction for the full cost of the eligible items.
- Normal depreciation applies from 1/7/2023 (except for certain digital assets i.e. patents, designs, software)
- Employment incentives – Take on more employees, subsidies for apprentices and digitising Australia. (for more detail see link below)
- New incentives will reduce the cost of taking on new employees.
- Take on more apprentices with increased subsidies and support. (for more detail see link below)
- If you are in the digital industry, a combination of investment incentives, digital infrastructure spend and skills spending might provide benefits for your business. (for more detail see link below)
- Friendly incentives for struggling businesses to help you stay in business.
- Financial incentives if you operate in certain industries.
- AAT assistance to pause ATO debt recovery.
- Government supported loans through the SME Recovery Loan Scheme.
- Improvements to insolvency rules. (for more detail see link below)
- Expanding access to the loss carry back regime. (for more detail see link below)
- Work incentives in childcare and super.
- Improving affordability of childcare with the aim to increase workforce participation.
- A plan to remove the $450 threshold for Superannuation Guarantee payments means that employees will start to receive super from the first $1 earned.
- Company Tax rate 25% from 1/7/2021.
- Small to medium sized trading companies (with a turnover of less than $50 million).
- This will also become your new franking rate for dividends you pay so consider whether to pay dividends this year, or bring forward expenses, to get a better tax outcome.
Read more here:
https://www.williambuck.com/tools/federal-budget-2021-22/business/#link-one
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