You may have heard of Single Touch Payroll (STP) in the media over the last year or so. Single Touch Payroll is a new way of employers reporting payroll activity such as your wage, tax withheld and superannuation to the ATO. Historically, employers have reported this information to the ATO in an annual payment summary Read More

As of 2017, almost all tax-payers can make a private, personal contribution into their superannuation fund and then claim the contribution as a personal deduction when they do their tax return. You can contribute any amount provided that your total concessional contributions are not more than $25,000 in a particular year. Remember, the compulsory 9.5% Read More

The tax season is a time some people look forward to as they have paid their taxes all year and are looking to get a nice refund to compensate for all the tax deductible expenses they have paid throughout the year. There are a few new changes in legislation that can help the common Australian Read More

The ATO have been hounding lately that they have drastically improved their data matching capabilities. Basically speaking, this means that the ATO will electronically match their data holdings with various different state and territory authorities. If their is a variance between the two forms of data, the ATO may question this and ask you for Read More

Any typical personal who receives a juicy tax refund will go out a buy something that they have long wanted or needed. Some of us have even spent our tax return before we have received it! Here at Nixer we want to help you with some recommendations on how to better spend or invest your Read More

Many people who operate as sole traders and even some salary and wage employees get overwhelmed with paper receipts and keeping track of these. Technology has progressed and cloud based utilities have become easily accessible which provides an easy paperless solution to your pile of documents and receipts. Here at Nixer were are completely paperless Read More

Some people look forward to tax time as they receive some money back from the ATO on their tax return. Whilst these deductions can’t be claimed by everyone, we have put together some of the common deductions that you could potentially be claimed by the relevant tax payer: – The cost of your tax affairs: Read More

Over the past couple of years the share sector has emerged into a leading force in the Australian economy. This has been great for employment in the country, as it has allowed for more Australians to be employed and/or operate as sole traders. Uber, Airtasker, Deliveroo, Airbnb and Gocatch are some of the businesses driving Read More

We understand that not many people love tax time and our goal is to help you to achieve a quick and stress free tax experience. Here are some general tax tips and tricks that will help you at tax time: 1. Keep good records At the end of the day, there is nothing worse than Read More

As technology develops and strengthens, so does the ATO’s scope in finding dodgy deductions. The ATO have recently advised that their data-matching skills have drastically improved over the last couple of years, hence recent warnings issued focused on work related expense claims. The ATO’s assistant commissioner Kath Anderson has recently informed the public that the Read More