Sole Trader & Partnership Tax Planning

Key tax considerations:

Temporary Full Expensing – this means where a business buys a depreciating asset we should be able to write it off completely for tax rather than depreciate over a number of years. For businesses with turnover under $50m this applies to second hand assets as well. Please note that the car threshold remains in place so we can only claim up to $64,741 for non-commercial vehicles (a truck would not be subject to this threshold)

PLEASE NOTE THAT FROM 1 JULY THIS WILL END AND THE INSTANT ASSET WRITEOFF WILL KICK IN MEANING ONLY ASSETS WORTH UP TO $20K CAN BE IMMEDIATELY WRITTEN OFF.

Prepayments – small businesses should be able to deduct prepayments they make before 30 June. e.g. prepaid marketing or insurance

Superannuation – you only get a deduction for superannuation once paid. Please ensure you have paid your superannuation for all staff before 30 June (usually 10 days before)

Personal superannuation – owners may wish to catch up super under new rules that allow you to carry forward unused contributions (you usually get a $27.5k cap of deductible contributions each year – note this includes employer contributions). You can carry forward any unused cap up to five years and these rules began from the 2019 year

Writing off stock and bad debts – clients should look to see if stock is obsolete or any debts may be bad so we can look to write these off before 30 June

Upcoming changes to personal income tax rates – the tax brackets should change from 1 July 2024

Company tax rates – for companies turning over less the $50m, the company tax rate this year is again 25% in most cases.

Cash versus Accrual – potentially able to account for your trading income on a cash basis as opposed to accrual (when you receive money rather than when you invoice)

Each client will have their own considerations and structures but the above is an indicative guide only as to some of the things we can look to achieve pre 30 June.