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Moved to Australia in the last year or so? Your visa isn't your tax residency, your first tax-free threshold is smaller, and overseas income and the Medicare levy work differently in your first year.

A car logbook app can save you hours at tax time, but only if it records what the ATO asks for. Here's what your logbook must show, what to send your accountant, and an offer for Aevum clients.

The trust tax is in Parliament but isn't law yet. Most of the draft survives, and the bill has a way back from an honest mistake, a share for charities and restructures into an existing entity.

Most of a company's own assets aren't reset on 1 July 2027, but the shares in it are, and so is a sole trader's goodwill. Here is what the reset does to a business, and where the biggest number sits.

On 1 July 2027 the 50% CGT discount ends, but the growth your property already has keeps it. Here is how the reset works, what value to use, and why the six year rule is not what most people think.

There are three ways to value meal entertainment for FBT. The easy one, the 50/50 split, switches off your exemptions, which is why it often costs more. Here is how to choose yours.

A bottle of wine sent to a client can be deductible. Lunch with the same client is not. Here is where the line sits for client gifts, referral partners, gift cards and the footy this Christmas.

Every September the same question arrives: can we claim the Christmas party? It depends on four things, and most business owners only know about one. Here is the whole picture for your own team.

The headlines said the Treasurer dropped the trust tax. He did not. The draft law keeps the 30% minimum tax and the 1 July 2028 start, and adds a way to stay out of it without moving a single asset.

Two months into Payday Super, the employers in trouble are not the ones paying more. They paid on time, the money landed late, and the super guarantee charge that follows has been rebuilt.

Plenty of people pay for private health insurance every month and pay the Medicare levy surcharge anyway. The policy looks right, the rebate arrives, the statement turns up, and none of it counts.

You lodged, you were assessed, you paid. Then a second letter arrives with a number you were not expecting. That is Division 293, and the line that triggers it has not moved since 2017.

A $1,000 deduction sounds like $1,000 back. The real figure is closer to $200. What the new standard deduction is worth, who benefits, who misses out and why you should keep your receipts anyway.

Everyone argued about the $3 million super tax. Almost nobody read what actually passed. Division 296 is now law, and the version on the statute book is meaningfully different from the one that caused all the noise.

Tradies spend more of their own money on work than almost anyone, yet many claim a fraction of what they are entitled to. Here is the full rundown of what you can claim and what you cannot.

There are two completely different ways to get your tax return done with us, and one never involves leaving your couch. Here is what each one involves, what it costs, and how to pick.

The ATO has stopped waiting for you to make a mistake. It now uses data matching, artificial intelligence and third-party reporting to find errors before most people even realise they have made one.

We're past the halfway point of the year. The ambitious goals set in January are a distant memory. This is the perfect time to pause and conduct a "Business Owner Mindset Audit."

Advanced tax deductions for Australian real estate agents: conferences, data subscriptions, income protection, the $300 tech rule, and the five myths that cost agents money at tax time.

The negatively geared investment property has been a cornerstone of building wealth in Australia for a generation. Buy a place, let a tenant pay rent to use it, and use the tax rules to help carry the loan while the value grows. For a long time the rules of that game barely moved. Then the 2026-27 Federal Budget took a big red pen to the rulebook. At Aevum Accounting, we are already fielding questions from clients who have heard something has changed but are not sure what, or