Thousands of Australians receive tax refunds every year. Some refunds won’t even cover the cost of a pizza to celebrate, however many are quite substantial. If you’re one of the lucky ones, what will you do with your tax windfall?
Thousands of Australians receive tax refunds every year. Some refunds won’t even cover the cost of a pizza to celebrate, however many are quite substantial. If you’re one of the lucky ones, what will you do with your tax windfall?
Here’s a recipe for a basic financial plan
Planning on retiring at age 65 and downsizing your home? From 1 July 2018 you may be able to contribute up to $300,000 ($600,000 for a couple) from the proceeds of the sale of your home to your superannuation fund.
This incentive, known as the ‘downsizer contribution’, is part of a federal government program to improve housing affordability.
Picture this... when you were 21 years old your well-meaning but financially inept uncle put $1,000 into an ordinary bank account for you with instructions to leave it there and let the bank’s interest turn it into a fortune. You followed his directions only to discover 34 years later when you reached 55 the balance of your “fortune” was just $13,690! What went wrong? Well, to put it frankly, you didn’t give it any attention.
Most of us take for granted that we have to get our car serviced regularly. It’s not something we look forward to, but we know we have to do it - or it will let us down when we most need it.
We all, to a greater or lesser extent, have an idea of our dream lifestyle. So how, as a nation, are we faring?
To find out, the Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) commissioned a survey of more than 2,600 people from around the country. The resulting Live the Dream report provides an insight into the extent to which we are collectively living our dream life and, more importantly, reveals key habits and characteristics of those who are already doing so.
Being retrenched from your job can be hard to accept. It is the sudden shock that catches most people but try not to take it personally. Redundancy is usually not about your personal performance; it’s the performance of your employer’s business, the industry sector in which you work, or even the global economy.
Tuesday night’s Federal Budget contained a variety of measures across superannuation, taxation, social security and aged care that will affect many of our clients and their financial plans.
At its meeting today, the Reserve Bank of Australia have decided once again to leave the cash rate unchanged at 1.50%
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