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Have you ever struggled with determining the correct tax treatment of different travel costs for your employees? Were the employees travelling on business, living away from home, or perhaps they relocated?

The Tax Law Amendment (Combating multinational Tax Avoidance) Bill 2015 (“MAAL”) casts the spotlight onto corporate activity that encourages the reduction of tax liabilities in Australia.

Retirement is supposed to be the phase of life when things become simpler. But for many people managing their retirement income adds complexity to what ought to be a time of relaxation.

Property investment has been a part of Australian culture since the earliest days of British settlement. But for a growing number of Australians, the traditional pathways to property investment are getting harder and harder to traverse.

Changes to the Aged Care Funding Instrument (ACFI) announced in this year’s federal budget will have the biggest impact on the sector’s revenue, with $1.2 billion slashed from the available funding pool. Of most concern is that it appears this is part of an ongoing trend by the Government to reign in aged care spending.

Housing affordability was a central theme for the real estate and construction sector in this year’s budget. What was obvious from the budget announcements is how few levers the Commonwealth Government has available to address housing affordability.

Technology is having a major impact on the real estate and construction industry in various ways.

The Personal Property Security Act came into force in January 2012 and a consequence of the sheer complexity of the legislation and the register itself (the PPSR) we continue to witness suppliers and financiers from both the small and big end of town unintentionally ‘donating’ their assets to insolvent companies as a consequence of unenforceable security interests.

In the lead up to the end of the FBT year, it’s always a good idea to make sure that your FBT affairs are in order.

How sellers create an impact and entice potential buyers in the way they initially go to market is a critical component in the process of moving real estate assets.

It looks like Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv need to welcome another member to their start-up club soon: Manila, Philippines’ thriving capital, is rising at a quick pace on the digital innovation map.

The World Bank confirms it: Singapore is the world’s top country when it comes to ease of doing business.